Keisha N. Blain

16 Podcast Episodes

268. Keisha N. Blain with LaNesha DeBardelaben: What a New Generation of Activists Can Learn from Fannie Lou Hamer

268. Keisha N. Blain with LaNesha DeBardelaben: What a New Generation of Activists Can Learn from Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the youngest of 20 children in a family of Mississippi sharecroppers. Black, poor, di... Read more

55. Dr. Keisha N. Blain on Reviving the Story of Fannie Lou Hamer

55. Dr. Keisha N. Blain on Reviving the Story of Fannie Lou Hamer

This week we're talking with award-winning historian Dr. Keisha N. Blain about her latest book, Until I Am Free: Fannie ... Read more

4 Nov 2021

32mins

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First Draft - Keisha N. Blain

First Draft - Keisha N. Blain

Keisha N. Blain is a 2022 New America National Fellow and an award-winning historian. She is the author of Set the World... Read more

1 Nov 2021

1hr 6mins

Keisha N. Blain | Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

Keisha N. Blain | Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

In conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson Keisha N. Blain's Set the World on Fire, a history of some of the early 20th ce... Read more

13 Oct 2021

1hr 1min

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Why Black History Matters with Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

Why Black History Matters with Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

In conversation with journalist Soledad O'Brien, the historians discuss the stories found in their anthology, ‘Four Hund... Read more

5 Aug 2021

44mins

Keisha N. Blain on African American History and Selective Memory

Keisha N. Blain on African American History and Selective Memory

Historian Keisha N. Blain, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and President of the African American Intellectual ... Read more

8 Apr 2021

32mins

Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain on the 400-year story of Black people in America

Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain on the 400-year story of Black people in America

Kendi and Blain edited “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019,” which tells the story of... Read more

16 Feb 2021

29mins

Ep. 150 An Invitation to History with Keisha N. Blain

Ep. 150 An Invitation to History with Keisha N. Blain

Today our guest is author and historian Dr. Keisha N Blain. Keisha, along with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, edited the brand new ... Read more

10 Feb 2021

57mins

Dr. Keisha N. Blain on Four Hundred Souls and African American history

Dr. Keisha N. Blain on Four Hundred Souls and African American history

Ep. #518 - Adam speaks with Dr. Keisha N. Blain, co-editor of the new book Four Hundred Souls with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. T... Read more

1 Feb 2021

35mins

Keisha N. Blain, “Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom” (U Penn Press, 2018)

Keisha N. Blain, “Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom” (U Penn Press, 2018)

Keisha N. Blain teaches African American and gender and women’s history at the University of Pittsburg. Her book Set the... Read more

26 Apr 2018

1hr 4mins

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