The Breakfast Club - IDKMYDE: Family reunions

Episode Date: February 29, 2024

Can you believe it's already the final episode of Season 3? We've journeyed through history, uncovered undertold stories, and celebrated the resilience of Black excellence together. From Massacre Mondays to highlighting Black businesses and beyond, it's been an incredible ride. And hey, mark your calendars for the second Black Effect Podcast Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 27th! Yours truly, along with Pretty Vee, will be hosting, so don't miss out! Thanks for rocking with us this season. See you Season 4! IG: @_idkmyde_ | @BdahtTV | @blackeffectSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this final episode of Season 3's I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Either, I want to say February feels like our family reunion. Annually, we get together and celebrate our black family members from the past that have helped shape our current as we continue to shape the future. But did you know that family reunions trace back to slavery? Cause I didn't. I didn't know, maybe you didn't need me. I didn't know, maybe you didn't need me. I didn't know, maybe you didn't need me. I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.

Family reunions can be traced back to the Emancipation Proclamation when former enslaved folks would look for family members they were separated from during slavery. You gotta remember, slave marriages and family ties, they weren't recognized by American law. Owners could sell husbands from wives, parents from children,

brothers from sisters. The big slaveholders had hell of a plantation, and a lot of times they just moved enslaved black folks around, splitting up the families in the process. So after good old Abe Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and black folks were finally free, you can't see my air quotes, but free, the first thing former enslaved black folks did was look for family to reunite. Family was the definition of freedom to black families. Did you hear that?

I said family, your wife, your children, being able to love on and touch your siblings and parents. That was the definition of freedom. Boy, we sure have strayed from that logicality. My point is, thank you, cousins, from your Carolina cousin, for a phenomenal season three of I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Either. We share stories from Massacre Mondays to Mansa Musa, from black businesses to burned black orphanages. Thanks to Nissan, we were able to highlight current black trailblazers in steam, science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics, while also making it fun with robotic dogs and drones that go in the air or under the sea. The next Black Effect family reunion is in Atlanta, Georgia, April 27th for the second Black Effect Podcast Festival.

I'm hosting it with Pretty V. So make sure you follow on my social media. It's B.TV on all platforms. B-D-A-H-T-T-V. Okay, bye.