Please help more people to learn about this podcast by rating and leaving a review on Apple podcasts, which will help to make this podcast more visible for others who, like us, want to do more than stating the obvious that Black Lives Matter… but who want to increase their awareness and understanding, which is the sole intention of this podcast. “The Souls of Black Folk,” by W. E. B. Du Bois, Chapter 2 (Of the Dawn of Freedom)  This link connects to The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois. (FREE.) Forty acres and a mule (from Wikipedia): is part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha). Sherman later ordered the army to lend mules for the agrarian reform effort. However, Abraham Lincoln's successor as president, Andrew Johnson, explicitly reversed and annulled proclamations such as Special Field Orders No. 15 and the Freedmen's Bureau bills. You can learn more about, and contribute to Adriene Lipscomb’s 40 Acres Project here: https://40acresproject.com/ And, as always, regardless of your "race," gender, political affiliation, sexual orientation, etc., you are warmly invited to learn more about (and join) the Black Achievement Fund. The goal of the BAF is to create a sustainable independent source of capital to fund a national Black economic and community development agenda and to support the talent of Black people to foster a new Black Renaissance that reflects the collective genius of people of African descent. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/onewhitewoman/message