Creative Tension

History Podcasts

The Creative Tension podcast explores the history and legacy of Jim Crow segregation. Host, Elliott Robinson provides the missing chapters from American History class, through a mixture of interviews, archival audio and roundtable discussions....

Episodes

24. What to the Slave is the 4th of July?

23. Defending Black Bodies - A Conversation w/ Xaxier Donaldson, Esq. v. 2

22. Policing Black Bodies - A Conversation with Attorney Gilbert Parris.

21. Does the Church Promote “Grind Culture?”

20. Reimagining Rest - A Conversation w/ Tricia Hersey, The Nap Bishop

19. Reclaiming Rest in a Grind Culture - A Conversation w/ The Nap Bishop, Tricia Hersey

18. Watermelon - Why African-Americans Rarely Eat it in Public

17. The Coon Caricature: From Stepin' Fetchit' to Modern Urban Radio

16. How Can Black Men Reclaim Their Smile? - A Conversation w/ Carlton Mackey

15. Remembering the Dead: A Conversation with EJI Fulton County Remberance's Allison Bantimba

14. The Black Brute Caricature - Black Male Violence & Athletics

13. Banished from Sumter - Run Out of Town During Jim Crow

12. Mammy, Movies and Madea - The Mammy Caricature in Film

11. Blackface - A Racist Practice that Won't Die

Creative Tension Returns March 1st!!!

10. The Legend of Aunt Jemima and the Monetizing of Mammy

9. The Mammification of a Nation - Making Mammy a National Treasure

8. Is Oprah's Linking #MeToo to Jim Crow Sexual Violence Accurate?

7. We Dissect the Myth of the Merry Black Mammy

6. Exploring Black Caricatures and Stereotypes