BMA: Black Media Archive

This episode is a short clip of Bobby Seale speaking on gun ownership.

This episode is part of a speech given by Malcolm X in Harlem on the topic of housing and self defense (1964).

This episode is part of a speech given by Malcolm X in Harlem on the topic of housing and self defense (1964).

This episode is a piece of sheet music titled "Never trust a N***** with a gun." words by C.S. Libingston and music by J.G. Lewis (1886). First Line: "Now I read de other day George Washington did say..."

This episode is a piece of sheet music titled "Never trust a N***** with a gun." words by C.S. Libingston and music by J.G. Lewis (1886). First Line: "Now I read de other day George Washington did say..."

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for having shown your support and interest in the BMA podcast. Over the past 3+ years and 200 episodes this project has been a joy to work on, and to see it's audience grow and spread around the globe has been an exciting and inspiring experience. So again, thank you for taking the time to check out the BMA podcast, please keep sending in your thoughts and ideas, leaving comments, and making this podcast more successful than I could have imagined. I look forward to continuing to share these historic materials with you for another 100. Peace. Episode 200 is the first episode of the first season of "The Amos 'n Andy Show" which was aired Thursdays at 8:30 on CBS beginning in June 1951. It was the first television series with an all-black cast (the only one of its kind to appear on prime-time, network television for nearly another twenty years).

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for having shown your support and interest in the BMA podcast. Over the past 3+ years and 200 episodes this project has been a joy to work on, and to see it's audience grow and spread around the globe has been an exciting and inspiring experience. So again, thank you for taking the time to check out the BMA podcast, please keep sending in your thoughts and ideas, leaving comments, and making this podcast more successful than I could have imagined. I look forward to continuing to share these historic materials with you for another 100. Peace. Episode 200 is the first episode of the first season of "The Amos 'n Andy Show" which was aired Thursdays at 8:30 on CBS beginning in June 1951. It was the first television series with an all-black cast (the only one of its kind to appear on prime-time, network television for nearly another twenty years).

This episode is the book "Wehman's Black Jokes for Blue Devils" (1897). Labeled "Chuck full of darkey fun! Colored philosophy and nigger witticisms ... Fully illustrated with near one hundred pictorial "black jokes".

This episode is the book "Wehman's Black Jokes for Blue Devils" (1897). Labeled "Chuck full of darkey fun! Colored philosophy and nigger witticisms ... Fully illustrated with near one hundred pictorial "black jokes".

In the conclusion of this episode Sammy Davis Jr. hosted the hour-long variety show "Hollywood Palace" which aired on ABC (March 15, 1969), including special guests Nipsy Russel and James Brown among others. This episode is complete with commercials.

In the conclusion of this episode Sammy Davis Jr. hosted the hour-long variety show "Hollywood Palace" which aired on ABC (March 15, 1969), including special guests Nipsy Russel and James Brown among others. This episode is complete with commercials.

In this episode Sammy Davis Jr. hosted the hour-long variety show "Hollywood Palace" which aired on ABC (March 15, 1969), including special guests Nipsy Russel and James Brown among others. This episode is complete with commercials.

In this episode Sammy Davis Jr. hosted the hour-long variety show "Hollywood Palace" which aired on ABC (March 15, 1969), including special guests Nipsy Russel and James Brown among others. This episode is complete with commercials.

Movie: In the conclusion of this episode Lena Horne makes her film debut as an entertainer who gets a chance at Broadway in the film "The Duke Is Tops" (1938). She headlines for a stage show run by Duke (Ralph Cooper), but cuts her ties to Duke and heads for Broadway. But when her big debut becomes a big disaster, only Duke can save the day.

Movie: In the conclusion of this episode Lena Horne makes her film debut as an entertainer who gets a chance at Broadway in the film "The Duke Is Tops" (1938). She headlines for a stage show run by Duke (Ralph Cooper), but cuts her ties to Duke and heads for Broadway. But when her big debut becomes a big disaster, only Duke can save the day.