The 1960s was a world turned upside down. From 1967 to 1969 the chaos of politics and war left people finding solace in television and music. The Sistas talk about the shows and the music that were part of the revolution. Their special guest, Brenda Derrick gives them insight into what the time was really like.
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Here is more from my Mother’s Rose Bushes. Again we focus on the blooms.
In this upside down world, bad is good and good is bad, In 1964 to 1966 the war rages in Vietnam, African Americans fight for civil rights and television choses to ignore it. The Sistas talk about how the networks created their own perfect society despite reality. They invited their friend, Patti Sikes a retired AP History teacher to join them on this episode.
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I know some areas of the country are in full bloom, but it is those April showers that bring May flowers. These images are from my Mother’s Rose Bushes. This allows us to focus on just one.
This is our new podcast, Decades where we look at society and culture through the lens of history, music, television and whatever else we think of. Here is the first episode.
The 1960s was a call to freedom around the world. People were freeing themselves of the old ways of doing things. The Sistas looked at how the US answered the call to freedom from 1960 to 1963. They talk about music, books and of course, television.
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As we get to the end of Women’s History Month, let me remind you of all of the women I have honored in February and March. I did a creative photo shoot to honor some women who impacted the world around them. Sacagawea, Dolores Huerta, Betsy Ross, Shirley Chisholm, Rosa Parks, Madam CJ Walker and Bessie Smith.
How many roles can an actor take on at the same time and still do a good job? The Sistas talk about if this is possible when they discuss Hacks and the legend in the role.
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Sacagawea was born about May1788 and was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, at age 16, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition explore the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cultural contacts with Native American populations and contributing to the expedition’s knowledge of natural history in different regions.
At age 11, she was taken from her home tribe, the Shoshone by the Hidatsa people where when she was older she became the wife of Toussaint Charbonneau, a French trader.
Lewis and Clark hired Toussaint Charbonneau after learning that his wife, Sacagawea, spoke Shoshone. She was pregnant with her first child at the time.
On November 4, 1804, Clark recorded in his journal.
A week later, on July 13, Sacagawea advised Clark to cross into the Yellowstone River basin at what is now known as Bozeman Pass. Later, this was chosen as the optimal route for the Northern Pacific Railway to cross the continental divide.
While Sacagawea has been depicted as a guide for the expedition, she is recorded as providing direction in only a few instances. Her work as an interpreter certainly helped the party to negotiate with the Shoshone.
But her greatest value to the mission may have been her presence during the arduous journey, as having a woman and infant accompany them demonstrated the peaceful intent of the expedition. While traveling through what is now Franklin County, Washington, in October 1805, Clark noted that “the wife of Shabono [Charbonneau] our interpreter, we find reconciles all the Indians, as to our friendly intentions a woman with a party of men is a token of peace. Further he wrote that she “confirmed those people of our friendly intentions, as no woman ever accompanies a war party of Indians in this quarter”
Following the expedition, Charbonneau and Sacagawea spent 3 years among the Hidatsa before accepting William Clark’s invitation to settle in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1809. They entrusted Jean-Baptiste’s education to Clark, who enrolled the young man in the Saint Louis Academy boarding school. Sacagawea gave birth to a daughter, Lizette Charbonneau, about 1812. Lizette was identified as a year-old girl in adoption papers in 1813 recognizing William Clark, who also adopted her older brother that year.
She died December 20, 1812 or April 9, 1884.
Have you ever watched a show and felt like you were beaten as bad as one of the bad guys in the show? The Sistas talk about a show that has a whole different way to tell a mystery. Listen and see if it is worth that month of HBO.
Regina and I have a new podcast coming in April. You don’t want to miss it.
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