The Breakfast Club - IDKMYDE: Easter and Segregation

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

Todays episode of IDKMYDE we take a comedic deep dive into Easter, freedom, and Black history as we explore how hush harbors, liberation anthems, and even your fresh Easter fit are all part of a legacy of resilience and rising up—hip-hop style!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast, The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. Join me every week as I tell some of the most enthralling true crime stories about women who are not just victims, but heroes or villains or often somewhere in between. Listen to The Greatest True Crime stories ever told on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What would you do if mysterious drones appeared over your hometown? I started asking questions. What do you remember happening on that night of December 16? It actually rotated around our house looking as if it was peering in each window

of our home. I'm Gabe Lenners from Imagine, iHeart Podcasts and Lenners Entertainment. Listen to Obscurum, Invasion of the Drones, wherever you get your favorite podcasts. You are cordially invited to... The hottest party in professional sports. I'm Tisha Allen, former golf professional and the host of Welcome to the Party, your newest obsession about the wonderful world that is women's golf. Featuring interviews with top players on tour, tips to help improve your swing, and the craziest stories to come out of your friendly neighborhood country club. Welcome to the party with Tisha Allen is an iHeart woman's fourth production

in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. Listen to Welcome to the Party. That's P-A-R-T-E-E on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. We all have a moment that splits us wide open. On my new podcast, Wide Open with Ashlyn Harris, I'll sit down with trailblazers from sports, music, fashion, entertainment, and politics to explore their toughest moments and the incredible comebacks that followed. Listen to Wide Open with Ashlyn Harris, an iHeart women's sports production on the iHeart radio app, On today's episode of I Didn't Know, maybe you didn't either, let's talk about Easter. Now for most folks, Easter is about three things. Jesus, bunny rabbits with candy, and it's probably the only time all

year you buy some dress clothes for church. And if you're from the south, it's probably pastel colors on that Steve Harvey suit with the same color gait of Stacey Adams to match. Maybe you didn't need, I didn't know. Maybe you didn't need, I didn't know. I didn't know, I didn't know. But see for our ancestors, Easter wasn't just about dressing up and being fresher than the board of health and hunting Easter eggs. Back in the day, Easter was like the original

we gon' be all right anthem. It was hope in the middle of chaos. Imagine being enslaved, working sunrise to sunset, but still holding on to the story of Jesus rising again. Now that's some real faith. It might be smaller than a mustard seed. It was a thought of if Jesus could roll that stone away, come on somebody, huh? Then we can roll this oppression off our backs too.

Can I get an amen? And have you ever heard of Hush Harbors? Let me tell you about them. Hush Harbors were like the underground clubs of the enslavement period. Like them silent parties but they didn't have no colorful headsets. And instead of the DJ dropping bangers you had somebody in the corner whispering, swing low, sweet chariot. But they had to keep it low-key because if Massa caught you it's a rap. Cause they had to keep it low key. Cause if master called you, it's a wrap. So they'd head out to the woods, set up shop, and worship in secret.

Hush harbors. They'd even hang up wet blankets to keep the sound from traveling. Yeah, soundproof in the woods. Now how innovative is that? They didn't need no beats by Dre. Our ancestors invented noise cancellation. But these hush harbors, they weren't just about worship. Oh nah, they were about rebellion. See they'd sing songs like Wade in the water, Wade, which was basically

the first GPS. Cause that was code for, hey you, Harriet said meet up by the river and don't forget to pack light. These folks turned praise into power, hymns into hope, and today that same energy lives in every gospel choir and every preacher who makes you say, shabado, yes sir. And we can't forget about the Easter fit tradition, the pastels with the shoes to match, I wasn't capping about that, but that goes back to the enslavement periods as well. After emancipation, newly freed black folks would pull up the church in their finest fits. They wasn't just dressing for God, they were dressing to let the world know, I'm free and

I look good. That's why to this day we don't play by them Easter fits. Some folks be out here treating Easter like the Met Gala big hats pastel suits Had to put some armor all on them shoes because I can see my reflection in them Jones It's like a runway show with a praise break in the middle and no Easter ain't the only holiday with roots in the struggle We talked about Juneteenth in previous seasons. That's when we celebrate freedom to two years after Freedom was supposed to happen. Can you imagine being two years late to your own free party? Not like your job hitting you up and saying,

hey, you got a PTO that you didn't use back in 2023. Another holiday is Kwanzaa, where we honor African traditions and principles like unity and self-determination. If Easter is the resurrection, Juneteenth is the graduation, and then Kwanzaa is like the family reunion. It's all connected.

Holidays rooted in freedom and resilience. So this year when you're stepping clean and your Easter's best, remember you're not just celebrating a holiday, you're honoring a legacy. You're carrying forward the spirit of those hush harbors. The fight for freedom and the hope that no matter how low we get, we always rise again. And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast, the greatest true crime stories ever told.

Join me every week as I tell some of the most enthralling true crime stories about women who are not just victims, but heroes or villains or often somewhere in between. Listen to the greatest true crime stories ever told on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. What would you do if mysterious drones appeared over your hometown? I started asking questions. What do you remember happening on that night of December 16th? It actually rotated around our house, looking as if it was peering in each window of our

home. I'm Gabe Linners from Imagine I Heart podcasts and Leonard's entertainment. Listen to Obscura, Invasion of the Drones, wherever you get your favorite podcasts. You are cordially invited to the hottest party in professional sports. I'm Tisha Allen, former golf professional and the host of Welcome to the Party, your newest obsession about the wonderful world that is women's golf.

Featuring interviews with top players on tour, tips to help improve your swing, and the craziest stories to come out of your friendly neighborhood country club. Welcome to the Party with Tisha Allen is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. Listen to Welcome to the Party. That's P-A-R-T-E-E on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. We all have a moment that splits us wide open. On my new podcast, Wide Open with Ashlyn Harris, I'll sit down with trailblazers from sports, music, fashion, entertainment, and politics

to explore their toughest moments and the incredible comebacks that followed. Listen to Wide Open with Ashlyn Harris, an iHeart Women's Sports production on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.