The Breakfast Club - IDKMYDE: Why They're Still Fighting Over Black History Being Taught in Schools

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

If Black History Month started 100 years ago, why are people still arguing about whatgets taught? B Daht connects past erasure to present-day textbook battles.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. while they're still fighting over black history in these schools. I didn't know. Welcome back, No, at all, to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network, especially in February, entitled, I Didn't Know.

Maybe you didn't either. I'm your host, BDOT, and my 13-year-old daughter goes to a predominantly white school. Her mother and I have been blessed and fortunate enough to live wherever we, we want in the city of Charlotte. And it just so happens that the side of Charlotte we live on, my baby girl is a minority. And I ain't going to cap. It's a very conflicting dynamic because her mother is a product of North Carolina

A&T State University. I am a product of Winston-Salem State University. And we know the importance of being black. We are unapologetically black around here. And it's mandatory that we instilled that in our baby girl. So I share this podcast with her. We have these conversations. And sometimes she takes them to scroll.

with her. And sometimes she comes home so confused. One time she came home and said, Dad, none of my teachers knew what an HBCU was. How deflating. How can the teachers there even reach the black and brown children if they aren't educated enough themselves on what an HBCU is? It just alarms me on what other black history is not being taught to my baby and her peers. Like if Black History Month started 100 years ago, here's a fair question. Why people still arguing about teaching it. Why are books getting banned? Why are classes getting cut?

Why does the truth keep needing a disclaimer? How about we open that case file today? But before we do, of course you know we've got to start the episode with three of the most useless facts you'll never need not a day in life about black history in schools. Up first, states have passed laws restricting how racism, black history can be taught, not denying it happened, just limiting how honest you can be about it. Please see Florida here. Your second useless fact about black history being taught in schools.

Textbook battles over black history started almost immediately after segregation ended. Coincidence? My therapist Jackie Horton says there's no such thing as coincidences. And your third useless fact, every major expansion of black history education has been met with organized pushback. Again, that's not coincidence. That's coordination. All right, here's the part people dance around.

Black history ain't controversial because it's sad. It's controversial because it's explanatory. See, when students learn the full story, how laws were written and how wealth was blocked, how systems were designed, well, suddenly inequality stops looking like a mystery.

And that's uncomfortable. Because if you teach black history honestly, you also have to teach who benefits. who blocked progress and even more importantly who's still benefiting right now so instead of them saying um we don't want accountability the argument becomes oh this makes kids uncomfortable this is divisive this isn't age appropriate but discomfort ain't the issue clarity is between 2021 and 23 18 states passed laws restricted how race can be taught at least 1,600 books been banned. Many about black history, civil rights, or systemic racism.

That's why the fight ain't about if black history happened. It's about how much context you're allowed to give it. And this is exactly what Carter G. Woodson warned us about in 1926. He said if a group's history is controlled by others, the present will be too. A hundred years later, we're watching that prediction play out in real time. Again, Carter G. Woodson didn't create Negro History Week because the schools forgot. He created it because schools refused. Refused to tell the full story.

Refused to connect cause and effect. Refused to let history explain the present. That fight didn't end in 1926. It just got louder microphones. And I didn't know maybe you didn't need the podcast. So if you ever wonder why black history still feel like it's up for debate, remember this. The truth ain't dangerous. what it exposes is.

And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I didn't know. Hi, it's Joe Interesting, host of the Spirit Daughter podcast, where we talk about astrology, natal charts, and how to step into your most vibrant life.

And today I'm talking with my dear friend, Krista Williams. It can change you in the best way possible. Dance with the change. Dance with the breakdowns. The embodiment of Pisces intuition with Capricorn. power moves.

So I'm like delusionally proud of my chart. Listen to the Spirit Daughter podcast starting on February 24th on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast. I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would.

That's when his life took a disturbing turn. A one-night stand would end in a courtroom. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young.

Listen to Love Trapped on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the Adventures of Curiosity Cove podcasts, when peanut butter disappears from school, Ella, Scout, and Layla launch a full detective mission. Their search leads them back in time to meet a brilliant, inventor whose curiosity changed the world. In this Black History Month adventure, asking questions, thinking creatively, can lead to amazing discoveries. Listen to Adventures of Curiosity Cove every Monday

from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. What if mind control is real? If you can control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, You're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious.

Mind Games, a new podcast exploring NLP, aka Neurolinguistic programming. Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast Guaranteed human