Sankofa Chronicles: A Black History Podcast

About Sankofa Chronicles: A Black History Podcast

Sankofa Chronicles: A Black History Podcast brings history to life. Moving beyond daily facts, we explore the full spectrum of Black history—from groundbreaking African American achievements to untold stories across Africa and the global diaspora. Unearth forgotten historical figures, celebrate enduring legacies, and connect the past to the present. Subscribe now! figures, celebrate enduring legacies, and connect the past to the present. Subscribe now! movements across Africa and the global African diaspora. Each episode explores the legendary figures, cultural movements, and transformative

Publisher

Mr. Black History

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Aug 2026

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   The Chef Who Taught America to Eat - James Hemings

   Before mac and cheese was America's comfort food, it was James Hemings's French training on a plate. Enslaved at Monticello, summoned to Paris at nineteen, head chef at the American embassy at half the pay of the man before him. He cooked the dinners where America was bargained into being — then had to buy his freedom by teaching his own brother to replace him. His sister Sally was in Paris too, and this episode says the quiet part plainly: the children she bargained for were Thomas Jefferson's. A story about the price of keeping a Black family together when the system sold families apart — and how the man who taught America to eat got written out of the cookbook. Featuring the research of Annette Gordon-Reed and Monticello's historians. This is Sankofa Chronicles: A Black History Podcast — Wednesdays belong to food origins.

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Sister Rosetta Thorpe - The Godmother of Rock and Roll

   Sister Rosetta Tharpe invented rock and roll — and history erased her from it. Before Elvis, before Chuck Berry, a Black gospel woman from Cotton Plant, Arkansas plugged an electric guitar into the Pentecostal shouting tradition and created the template: heavy distortion, lead breaks, and pure showmanship. In 1938 alone she signed with Decca Records, played the Cotton Club, and sang gospel at Carnegie Hall. Her 1944 "Strange Things Happening Every Day" became the first gospel record to cross over. Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, and Elvis all learned from her — yet she died in 1973 in an unmarked grave, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame didn't induct her until 2018. Featuring her biographer Gayle Wald and scholar Maureen Mahon on the Black woman behind rock's birth. If this episode moved you, follow Sankofa Chronicles — and send it to one neighbor who needs to hear it.

3. 

   5 Oct 2026

   The Southern Underground Railroad: The War America Fought Against Black Freedom: Negro Fort, the Black Seminoles, and the Letter That Survived

   In 1816, a single cannonball wiped out a free Black town in Spanish Florida - and it was ordered from the top of the U.S. government. This episode of Sankofa Chronicles: A Black History Podcast uncovers the hidden history of Negro Fort, the Black Seminoles, and the decades-long war America waged against Black freedom in Florida. Mr. Black History traces the story from the deadliest cannon shot in American history through the First and Second Seminole Wars, Andrew Jackson's invasion, General Thomas Jesup's broken promises, and the one surviving letter from a Black Seminole leader named Abraham - a receipt on freedom that outlasted an entire system built on chains. This episode explores Black maroons, fugitive slave communities, the Underground Railroad's southern routes, Seminole resistance, and the true cost of America's war against Black liberation - a story of courage, betrayal, and survival that still echoes today. Keywords: Black history podcast, Negro Fort, Black Seminoles, Seminole Wars, Andrew Jackson, Southern Underground Railroad, Black freedom history, African American history, maroon communities, Florida slavery history Sankofa Chronicles: A Black History Podcast - we go back to bring it forward. Keep reaching back. Keep learning forward