Pod Crashing 459 With Menelek Lumumba And Hans Charles From The A Building
About this episode
This episode features Menelek Lumumba and Hans Charles discussing their documentary podcast 'The A Building', which highlights a pivotal moment in civil rights history at Morehouse College.
Pod Crashing episode 459 with Menelek Lumumba and Hans Charles from the podcast T A Building… "The A Building," a powerful new documentary podcast that revisits one of the most extraordinary and rarely told moments in American civil rights and higher-education history-an event that changed the future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and helped define the modern era of student protest. This is the seventh title to be released from Imagine Entertainment and iHeartMedia's slate of original iHeartPodcasts.The series tells the story of the 1969 student uprising at Morehouse College, where a group of students barricaded themselves inside the administration building-known on Historically Black Colleges and Universities campuses as "The A Building." Set against the backdrop of late-1960s America, "The A Building" explores a volatile period when student activism surged nationwide amid movements for civil rights, women's rights, labor justice, and opposition to the Vietnam War. At Morehouse, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. intensified tensions between the administration and a student body demanding an education that reflected Black history, identity and lived…
People in this episode
Guests: Menelek Lumumba, Hans Charles
Topics covered
- civil rights
- student activism
- Higher Education
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Morehouse College
Keywords
- student protest
- 1969
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- curriculum reform
- student life
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Pod Crashing, The A Building
Places: America, Hollywood, Morehouse
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