Unboxing Potential featuring Mickey Dean
Unboxing Potential featuring Mickey Dean
(Showing Our Sass: Season 2 - Episode 3)
Welcome back to Season 2 of Showing Our Sass. I am your host, MartaGwyn, and this season I will be introducing you to many of the amazing people in my life who have blessed me and who I hope I’ve been a blessing to. So, get comfy and slide on up to join the conversation as we talk about life and how we have all come to or are working to understand what it means to unbox our potential. In this episode I talk with Mickey Dean, a lifelong crusader for Civil Rights who continues to be dedicated to pushing for equity for African Americans.
0:00 - Intro Showing Our Sass Season 2
0:54 - Unboxing Potential featuring Mickey Dean
2:08 - Black Power Movement
Began as a revolutionary movement in the 1960s and 1970s that emphasized racial pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and cultural institutions.
[Source: https://www.archives.gov/research/afr....]
3:35 - College Years and the Movement
9:40 - Learning Opportunity
11:00 - Meeting Black Revolutionaries
Stokley Carmichael and LeRoy Jones
14:25 - Career Tips
What is one thing you wish you’d known when you first started your career?
21:00 - What are you reading?
21:10 - National Black United Front
[Source: YouTube Channel: / nbufront ]
21:30 - COINTELPRO
Counterintelligence Program - FBI initiative run from 1956 to 1971 designed to discredit and neutralize organizations considered subversive to U.S. political stability.
[Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/COIN...]
22:17 - Reparations
a system of redress for egregious injustices enacted upon a group of people
Source: https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/...
Examples: Native Americans received land and billions of dollars for various benefits and programs for being forcibly exiled from their native lands.
Japanese Americans who were forcibly interned during World War II received $1.5 billion in reparations.
The Marshall Plan paved the way for Jews to receive reparations for the Holocaust and in 1952 West Germany agreed to pay 3.45 billion Deutsche Marks (Approximately $1,856,127,315) to Holocaust survivors.
22:35 - My Face Is Black Is True by Mary Frances Berry
Callie House was an early reparations advocate who alleged that Black people deserve pensions as a form of reparations. [https://www.amazon.com/My-Face-Black-...]
24:50 - Helpful Resources
What are the best resources that have helped you?
27:02 - Sexual Harassment
The occurrence of any undesired/unwelcome sexual conduct at work, which engenders a hostile, intimidating, or uncomfortable workplace for workers.
[Source: https://www.eeoc.gov/sexual-harassment]
28:25 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Officially made sexual harassment illegal in the workplace.
28:31 - CRA Amendment and Title VII
In 1991, an amendment to Title VII allowed victims of sexual harassment to sue for damages.
[Source: https://www.lawfirms.com/resources/em...]
29:35 - Myth Busters
What is a common myth about Black Nationalism that you’d like to debunk?
31:26 - Kwanzaa Created in 1966 by Maulana Ron Karenga.
Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday that celebrates history, values, family, community and culture. [Source: https://nmaahc.si.edu/kwanzaa]
36:11 - Traveling International
How did international travel influence your world view?
36:33 - Kwame Nkrumah
Source: https://aaregistry.org/story/kwame-nk...
36:35 - Ahmed Sékou Touré
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
36:37 - Amílcar Lopes Cabral
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
37:17 - First Visit to Libya
Source: https://www.britannica.com/place/Libya
37:20 - Muammar Gaddafi
Photo Credit: Stevan Kragujević
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar...
37:50 - Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III
(aka. Nana Baffour Amankwatia II)
[Source: https://www.fcd-us.org/asahilliard/]
37:53 - Kemetology
The study of Egypt. Kemet, the original name of Egypt, means “Land of the Black or Black Land”
[Source: https://www.kemetology.com/]
41:01 - Dispelling myths about Africa
Displore YouTube Channel • AFRICAN COUNTRY PROFILE
50:13 - Spill the Tea
51:55 - Are HBCUs Still Necessary?
52:28 - Super Scholar Xcel Group Photo
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