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!
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On this final episode of season threes. 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 traced back to slavery? Because I didn't. I didn't know. Maybe I didn't know. Maybe I didn't know. I didn't know. Maybe 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 that were separated from during slavery. You got to remember slave marriages and family tars. They weren't recognized by American law. Owners could sell husbands from wives, parents from children, brothers from sisters. The big slave holders had hell of a plantations and a lot of times they just moved in slaves black folks around, splitting up the families in the process. So after good Old Abe Lincoln signed the Mancipation Proclamation and black folks were finally free. You can't see my air quote, but free. The first thing for them enslave 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, own 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 shared stories from massacre Mondays to Mansimusa, from black businesses to burn black orphanages. Thanks to Nissan, we were able to highlight current black trailblazers and steams science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics, while also making it fun with robotic dogs and drones that go in the air or under us C. The next Black Effect Family Reunion is in Atlanta, Georgia, April twenty seven for the second Black Effect Podcast Festival. I'm hosting it with Pretty v so make sure you follow on my social media is b DO TV on all platforms b d ah t TV. Okay bye no