Episodes

Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square as they reminisce about their three years recording Why Are They So Angry? episodes and creating the WATSA? ecosphere. They’ll stroll down memory lane to tell which episodes were favorites then spill the tea on what’s next for them and the WATSA? project. Want more like this? Check us out at www.whyaretheysoangry.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

The carnival dunking booths used to be a midway staple, but that seemingly innocent amusement has a sinister and racist history. Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square as they expose the horrific side of carnivals and why a baseball thrown at 100 miles per hour had deadly consequences. Want more history of systemic racism, check us out at https://www.podpage.com/why-are-they-so-angry/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-francois/support

The landmark Supreme Court decision making it illegal to use race as a factor in college and university admissions is sending shockwaves through America. Listen as Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square dissect how the ruling could possibly have a negative impact on elementary and secondary education, businesses, industry, and employment practices and how the decision is unraveling decades of work to level the playing field for Blacks and minorities. Want more history like this, check us out at...

Are new technologies exacerbating societal inequities and even reinforcing systemic racism? What role is facial recognition playing in government oversight and policing of citizens? How is reliance on algorithms undermining our basic freedoms? Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square explore these and other questions about artificial intelligence and its impact on racial, social, and economic justice. Want more hidden history, check out our website at www.whyaretheysoangry.com . --- Support this...

Resistance to the American form of chattel slavery took many forms. Listen as Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square illuminate the history of antebellum midwifery and its role in resisting forced breeding of enslaved women then trace this resistance to its modern day role in supporting positive, alternative birthing methods for Black women. Want more hidden history, check out our website at www.whyaretheysoangry.com . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carol-fra...

Nearly 179 years ago, Rev. Henry Highland Garnett declared to Black enslaved people, “Let your motto be resistance! resistance! RESISTANCE!” Black people have resisted historic and ongoing oppression in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings, since their arrival upon American shores. Listen as Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square tell the story of the bloody Christiana Resistance and other heroic and mostly unsung and unknown acts of resist...

Did you know Mississippi’s first ever labor union was formed in 1866 by a group of Black washerwomen? Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square as they tell about the impact these women and their strike had on labor movements in the South and around America both then and now. Want more? Learn unadulterated history at https://learn-whyaretheysoangry.thinkific.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carol-francois/support

We’re delighted to share with you our entry into the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Podcast Competition. Listen here and wish us luck! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carol-francois/support