Good podcast

As a white person who didn’t even grow up here, I have a lot to learn about all the injustices that Black Americans have faced and still face today. Thank you for helping me learn, and for the great storytelling and journalism. The recording of the white farmer at the end of Episode 5 Part 2 speaks volumes about racism and bigotry in this country. We have a lot of work to do.

History is the truth. We all need more of this experience. This series was so thorough. I LOVED every single episode. I’m desperate for additional content. And more podcasts like this.

The fundamental root of the divide in America is the lies and reconstruction of our history.

I’m only on episode 2 but have learned some really big things. Unlearning too. Unlearning is even richer than learning - there are levels. How did I never know slaves were mortgaged, like houses? for example. Or that the bundled mortgages were sold as bonds? It really hit me that our country is such a mess because it was founded on brutality and injustice and greed. And the bravery of black people in the civil war and reconstruction era and the huge contributions they made. I’m not young. I’m an avid and adventurous learner, but this had all escaped me.

Whether you are left or right. History is important. I was sad when the episodes stopped.

I will keep this for as long as I can. Please follow up with more information. Great job educating. Brilliant series.

All I can say is I need season 2, 3 and 4…

This situation(s) is actually something I’d think happened in eighteen hundred something. It is hard even to conceive that it IS SO modern. Yet simultaneously, not shocking, not surprising, and not sensible. Of all these such reports and the like that are so repetitive over so many centuries… I only wonder when…and why don’t we as blacks do same with the great positive effects WE share with society??..this would be in honor of other’s great loss and betrayal…we need not their form of freedom, we need be WOKE!

Great telling of the true history of the America founding. Unlock the truth. You cannot repair what you will not face.

Everyone should be listen to this, enlighten and learn true history. Very well told and the voices are clear and easy to listen to understand. My favorite was episode 3, about the music.

Everyone should watch this

I was amazing by the amount of information I learned from this podcast. I hope there is a 2nd season.

Within a couple days while working I listened to all five plus podcast which would have been a shorter listening if I wouldn’t have rewound as often. What a powerful podcast, between the shock & awe of the things I didn’t know, I was brought to tear. It’s a good thing I work at home because the emotions were to strong for sitting at a desk in an office setting. I’m so grateful for Nikole Hannah-Jones along with you worked on this for bringing this to us.

I loved the history and powerful stories that felt so personal. These stories are validation of all the blatant and subtle ways that our people continue to be pushed down. I also loved how this made me know for facts that we are in so many ways brain washed. However it’s a 2-edged sword because our survival and growth is tied to all the lies! Thank you and can’t wait to hear more information like this one 💪🏽💕

This is absolute garbage!

Left wing anti-American, anti-Semitic, racist garbage. Please leave this great country jones, and take American Pravda - the New York Times - with you.

I can not express in words what this work has meant to me. The value of learning truths and nuance that is giving me context to what I see and feel. We need to know the truth of beginnings so that we can be better. If my daughter can read the crucible she can definitely read this!

Every single American should listen to this podcast. It needs to be heard.

So glad I ran across this podcast. Such an eye opener & lots of deep deep conversations. Everything still so relevant in todays world. It’s unfortunate we, as black people, still endure so much. However, we will succeed! “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”

I have to admit I cried shamelessly while listening to parts of this podcast. Hearing the stories of veterans getting beaten and hardworking farmings losing their land all due to their race was heart wrenching. I’ve never experienced anything close to this type of treatment but needed to hear what has happened and is still happening. Thank you for telling the story.

Swallow them pills, sheeple.

Will there be a season 2?

If US history had been taught like this when I was in school, I would’ve had the tools to understand current events. And I might just have wanted to major in history at university.

I’ve head the book since it dropped so now I have to read it and if the book is a reflection of this pod in any way, BOOK GOLD!!! I LOVED the story of her uncle and the story about music *chef’s kiss*!!! All the stories, truly & the story about the farmland in Louisiana had me in tears. WE NEED MORE STORIES LIKE THISSSSSSS. Thank you 💚💚💚.

Excellent summarization of how the systems that built 250 years of slavery still drive our societal structures today! Compact but comprehensive series. Tells a true American history in an interesting, story telling way. Everyone should listen and absorb this; understanding our history will allow us to build a better future!

Thanks for your work. A brilliant account of just some of the realities of what it means and has meant to be African- American. Watching all the Hulu episodes now.

Did I miss season 2?

Whether or not you’re black, these are important narratives to know. I appreciate the approach of explaining systemic failures from different industries and aspects. Like turning history upside down and looking at it from the bottom up. Very well done!

These stories fill in the missing pieces of history that need to be told. Further more it shows how Black have the largest impact on every single part of America.

This podcast tells a perspective of American history I’ve never heard. So much of our culture is shaped by the history of slavery. I wished I’d learned this history in school.

Thank you so much for this podcast, you opened up my eyes, incredible!

This is a really great podcast, combining broad swathes of history with personal accounts that make generalities visceral. Each episode is so moving and also informative. I look forward to subsequent seasons.

Very powerful stuff. June and Angie sharing the details really brought home that we still have a long way to go in this country. I hope their story fares better in the future.

Take a look at how people are rating and reviewing this show. You’re going to see reviews that celebrate that these stories and experiences are finally coming to surface after being swept under the rug for such a long time. You’ll also see reviews from people who more than likely listened to one episode and couldn’t handle the subject matter because they’re simply unprepared for a dialogue. If you listen to this podcast all the way through, you’ll discover where you fall on this spectrum.

We were not taught much real American history in school. I am glad I am getting this much needed information now! I will make sure my son, one way or another, learns our country’s truth!

The core tenant is totally inaccurate. Some of the things that they uphold about black people is offensive and infantilizing.

So much of this history I did not know but needed to hear so I can truly understand. Thanks for teaching me. I like how you present it. Breaks my heart on so much of it but needs to be heard.

one of the best podcast i have heard. Its ability to communicate informative history in a sonically perfect way makes for a full 360 experience. made me feel all kind of ways.

Absolutely amazing and eye opening. Please make more episodes. This should be mandatory listening in all high school history classes. Mind blowing

This podcast was beautifully rendered truth. Hope for more seasons. This white woman learned so much and will use the emotional wallop of all of this story telling to improve my own anti racist efforts. Hoping for more seasons.

It’s sad to just be learning a fuller version of American history but I’m grateful for this well done podcast. If I don’t read the comments opposing this discussion of basic facts, I feel hopeful for our country and the future of open discourse.

Excellent podcast! The audio production is outstanding. I should have listened to this sooner.

Learned so much. Hope there is a second season. Love learning and growing. Black Americans are such strong, invincible and spiritual beings. We are all gods children. Different shades of Mother Earth. So sad that so many people just can’t get over telling themselves they are superior. And claim to be the victims?!?! So hateful and cruel. So impressed with their courage to keep fighting for democracy. Thank you.

So beautiful, so personal, so upsetting, and so so so important. Should be a mandatory part of education. Thank you for making this series.

Absolutely gut-wrenching, enlightening, and remarkably well done. Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed this.

I’m a 65 year African American women, who lost my grandmother because she was in a car accident need care for a blood transfusion. At that time they didn’t want to mix white blood with negro blood. The white hospital refused care , so friends , to get care to the negro hospital, where on the way she died. My grandmother. I heard a similar story in the program. Which took me to my family history . At times I don’t know how to feel , the anguish , hardship, and despair, mixed with the blessings that God gives us every day. there are times my spirit & my soul is just tried of the struggle. We as a people endure the inability of white people that wanted to know the truth, see the truth, and ignore the truth and the hatred that runs through some white of them and souls it’s enough to make me tried. It’s a enough to make my people tried .” How long King said not long”. Not long must be Gods time. Because my , God it’s been a long Long LONG LONG TIME. Thank you so much for the History of African American , that some White’s don’t want us to know. I pray that every year this, program goes on & on to TV everywhere that all are people can know & embrace our heritage. Why can Black farmers receive any help when it was promised to them. God Bless you Nikole I’m so so sorry to hear about your uncle. And so many more of families that lost love ones.

The fact that NHJ is still pushing what she personally called not-history is pretty disgusting. She has one goal with this drivel: destroy American society. If you want to hear some comedy please listen, but this is not representative of American history.

Where is the rest of this podcast??!!! This is so good. Loved it even the parts that were hard to hear. Wonderful and rich

Amazing! Absolutely Amazing! The TV series prompted me to research more and I came across this podcast! The details and emotion! This is awesome!