Did you know that U.S. gun laws, drug laws and even zoning laws were originally created for the sole purpose of white supremacy?

Did you know that house parties, the doorknob, the bottle cap, the ice cream scoop, the curtain rod and stand-up comedy were all invented by Black Americans?

It turns out there are a whole lot of facts and histories the book-banners don’t want you to know and that’s why I’m writing about them right here. Free subscribers will receive a Banned History of Race in America newsletter every other week. Paid subscribers will receive weekly posts as well as access to First Friday Morning Micro Concerts on zoom and more!

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Histories involving race in America are being banned. I don't like that, so I'm putting as many of those histories as I can right here. Runteldat.

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Contributor to This American Life and The Moth Radio Hour. Featured in NYT bestselling A Point of Beauty and How to Tell a Story. Creator and host of the 99 Years Podcast, columnist for The Bollard, musician following Black American folk traditions.