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16/10/2020

Fred Easter is a well-known voice from THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast. Born in NYC in 1941, Fred prepared at The Gunnery, Washington, CT and George Washington High School, NYC. This video is an interview from the documentary film of the same name produced by Kent Garrett that preceded both the podcast and book.

“Black rage? No question in my mind that I'm a pi**ed off Black man today. Tomorrow, I expect to wake up pi**ed off. Yes, no question in my mind. I don't think Harvard had anything to do with my coming to understand myself as a Black man.”-Fred

Fred was born and grew up in the projects, in Harlem, NY and attended elementary and high school in the city schools. Through the actions of the National Scholarship and Service Fund for Negro Students, he spent the next two years at The Gunnery, a private prep school in Connecticut. He thinks that Harvard admitted so many "Negroes" in 1959 because they realized that 1963, the year we would graduate, was the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. After Harvard, Fred would devote his life in San Francisco and Minneapolis to working with school and social organizations that help at-risk inner-city kids.

Join Fred along with host Kent Garrett, classmates, and special guests to talk everything from politics to Harvard to being Black in America in 2020 and all topics in between.

Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app. More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/.

14/10/2020

The Harvard Gazette provides an excerpt from THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD at the link below. Check it out and then head to the book’s website to purchase and finish reading!

Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app. More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/.



https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/last-negroes-at-harvard-traces-lives-class-of-1963/

Kent Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth’s “Last Negroes at Harvard” chronicles the lives of the groundbreaking 18 black members of the Class of 1963.

12/10/2020

Today we honor Indigenous communities across the country that have been hurt by the same European colonialism that produced and was built upon the slavery of black and brown people for far too long. Here’s to refusing to be extinguished by systemic racism and brutality and pushing back. Here’s to surviving to honor those who came before us.

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09/10/2020

John Woodford is a well-known voice from THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan in 1942, he prepared at Benton Harbor High School before heading off to Harvard University. This video is an interview from the documentary film of the same name produced by Kent Garrett that preceded both the podcast and book.

“I don't think they were trying to turn us into Harvard gentlemen any more than they were trying to turn everyone else into one. But the material they were working with was not all that malleable. I would say most of the people I knew were not likely to become Harvard gentlemen.”-Woodford

John grew up in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the son of a physician. As a freshman at Harvard, he met Eliza Duffy, the Radcliffe girl he would marry in 1965 (who you may recall from Episode 8). Early in his career, he wrote for EBONY and Jet, The New York Times, and Muhammad Speaks. He and Eliza returned to Michigan to raise their family, where John edited various publications for the University of Michigan.

Join John along with host Kent Garrett, classmates, and special guests to talk everything from politics to Harvard to being Black in America and all topics in between.

Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app. More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/.

07/10/2020

Episode 10 of THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast was a quick chat about the looming topic of late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement on the U.S. Supreme Court. Fred Easter, Gerry Secundy, John Woodford and surprise guest, fellow classmate George Allen discuss possible replacement scenarios, a second impeachment, and more.

Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app. More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/.



Listen to the full episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4bSxo3Vk21yNjppY4JIDWi?si=DpBo7nAQT5mrfexPoiPklQ

05/10/2020

In Episode 11 of THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast Kent is joined by fellow Harvard classmates John Woodford, Fred Easter, Gerry Secundy and Ezra Griffith and returning guest Matthew Alemu, a doctoral student at the University of Michigan Department of Sociology. The topic in this episode is the first…and last…2020 presidential debate, seasoned with some conversation about racism in the year 2020. Come join the conversation and drop us a line in the comments.

Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app. More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/.



Listen to the full episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4bSxo3Vk21yNjppY4JIDWi?si=DpBo7nAQT5mrfexPoiPklQ

30/09/2020

Episode 9 of THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast’s talking point was filmmaker Michael Moore’s assertion that Biden’s ground game in Michigan is worse than Hilary Clinton’s. Listen into the podcast and read more about Moore’s comments at the link below.

Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app. More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/.



Listen to the full episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Y3hhNEXJC3mn997kUPnNQ

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/514247-michael-moore-warns-of-2016-repeat-enthusiasm-for-trump-off-the-charts

Filmmaker Michael Moore warned Democrats that President Trump appears to have momentum behind his reelection campaign in key battleground states, with the progressive activist saying enthusiasm for Trump is "OFF THE CHARTS" compared with

25/09/2020

Episode 8 of THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast welcomed Radcliffe alums Liza Woodford, Marcy Benstock, Cindy Wardle, and Connie McDougald to the studio. Radcliffe College was established in 1879, “when Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and other women established the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women.” Radcliffe was associated with Harvard University as its women’s counterpart, and over the years evolved until its complete integration with Harvard in 1999.

In 1963, the year that 18 young Black men graduated from Harvard (including Kent Garrett, John Woodford, Gerry Secundy, and Fred Easter), Radcliffe began issuing joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas to undergraduates on its road to integration with Harvard. Join the women and men as they discuss this time in their lives and what it was like to attend Ivy League colleges in the sixties.

Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app. More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/.



Listen to the full episode on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cxZKPBMyMnSQAvzZOV59A?si=g2SOZeNjShKAMdRS9zjIXg

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radcliffe_College

Quote source: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/radcliffe-magazine/complicated-history-women-harvard

Women have always been at Harvard, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz AM ’65, PhD ’69, RI ’01 noted in her lecture “It’s Complicated: 375 Years of Women at Harvard,” but for many years they were present as workers and donors or helpmeets to fathers, husbands, and sons. From the University’s foun...

23/09/2020

A new video episode of the 8:01 Fact Check is up on the Kent Garrett YouTube channel that looks at voting by mail. Politicians lie…and The 8:01 keeps track. Be sure to subscribe while you watch!

The 8:01 Fact Check with Kent Garrett can be heard weekday mornings, 8:01am – 9:00am, on WIOX Community Radio. In this program, Kent takes a regional focus on world and national news, sports, politics, local weather, and interviews with a diverse array of luminaries.



https://youtu.be/7CEKG58vnbo

Politicians Lie... and The 8:01 keeps track

18/09/2020

Did you catch the August 13th FLASHLIGHT episode? Jeanne tells the story of the man who was King of Albania . . . or was he? Did he suffer from mythomania? Listen along to this wild story of the claims of a German circus acrobat, Otto Witte, from 1913.

FLASHLIGHT is a look back at history, casting a beam on fascinating and sometimes long forgotten events. Written and narrated by Jeanne Ellsworth, produced by Kent Garrett, with original theme music by Robert Cucinotta. Find it on your favorite podcast app/site.

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4JyjSdUiAwtl1s0XQUJFac?si=_mBaXuLtSee6DOxefaD0IA



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16/09/2020

Congratulations to the Atlanta-based Harvard Diversity Project debate team, Madison and Christian, for making history and winning their third consecutive international debate competition at Harvard! Well done!



https://www.ajc.com/life/atlanta-debate-team-takes-harvard-crown-again/JKFUYLU6IVCT5BOSNYDTCCAEI4/

A team of Black teens recently won the Harvard Diversity Project’s International Debate Competition for a third year in a row. A Langston Hughes High School student and a Westminster School student made history at the competition.

14/09/2020

Listen in on the latest episode of THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast where Kent and friends meet with former long-time Fox 40 News (Binghamton, NY) anchor Larry Sparano. He says he is a liberal Democrat…but, we have some doubts about that!

This episode we’re showing our faces from across the nation, meet us at the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIqLC036T8c&t=75s

Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app. More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/.



Listen to the full episode on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Hzq9AEDGzHNIR1x2tZSzL

There were 18 of us. We are now pushing 80 years of age. We were in the Harvard College Class of 1963. When we entered in 1959, we were the largest number of...

11/09/2020

WHAT IS VOTER INTIMIDATION? Via the ACLU:
“Federal law says that ‘no person … shall intimidate, threaten, coerce … any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of [that] person to vote or to vote as he may choose.’ Many states have their own laws prohibiting voter intimidation.

WHO CAN I REPORT INTIMIDATION TO?
You can report intimidation to:
• The Election Protection Hotline: 1-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español)
• The U.S. Department of Justice Voting Rights Hotline: 800-253-3931; TTY line 877-267-8971
• Local and state officials, including poll workers; your county clerk, elections commissioner, elections supervisor; or your state board of elections”

The 8:01 Fact Check with Kent Garrett can be heard weekday mornings, 8:01am – 9:00am, on WIOX Community Radio. In this program, Kent takes a regional focus on world and national news, sports, politics, local weather, and interviews with a diverse array of luminaries.

The August 24th episode takes on President Trump’s claims that he will send law enforcement to polling places, aka voter intimidation. Politicians lie, too. The 8:01 keeps track.

Don't forget to subscribe here: https://youtu.be/ImQlOCP42Tg



More about voter intimidation, what it looks like, and what to do at the polls:https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_pdf_file/kyr-voterintimidation-v03.pdf

09/09/2020

The 8:01 Fact Check with Kent Garrett can be heard weekday mornings, 8:01am – 9:00am, on WIOX Community Radio. In this program, Kent takes a regional focus on world and national news, sports, politics, local weather, and interviews with a diverse array of luminaries.

The August 24th episode takes on President Trump’s claims that he will send law enforcement to polling places, aka voter intimidation. Politicians lie, too. The 8:01 keeps track.

Don't forget to subscribe!



https://youtu.be/ImQlOCP42Tg

Politicians lie, The 8:01 radio broadcast keeps track

07/09/2020

Today, , we’re celebrating all workers and their achievements, especially those who have labored now or in the past for unlivable wages in unfair, unsafe, or cruel conditions.

Unfortunately, the pandemic has widened the “spread between racial group jobless rates in the last three months [and] reversed years of gains towards slowly bringing unemployment rates between Blacks and whites closer to parity.”

Now is not the time to grow complacent. As we celebrate Labor Day, we must stay vigilant in demanding equality including fair pay and job opportunities in the pandemic and during the climb back out to “normal” life.


Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-race/u-s-black-white-unemployment-rate-gap-widens-again-in-july-idUSKCN2531XI

The gap in the U.S. jobless rate between whites and Blacks widened for a third straight month in July, making the gulf between the races the widest in more than five years, Labor Department data released on Friday showed.

04/09/2020

California’s police misconduct bill is back in the news with some amendments. Roger Goldman discussed this bill and police decertification during Episode 6 of THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast.

“California is currently one of just a few states without a law for decertifying police officers. The bill seeks to change that, creating a process to strip police powers from officers who have committed a variety of offenses.”

Learn more about the bill and what’s happening with it here: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/26/police-decertification-newsom-402811



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California is currently one of just a few states without a law for decertifying police officers.

02/09/2020

In the latest episode of THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast Roger Goldman, Saint Louis University School of Law professor emeritus, joined the guys to talk police decertification.

“Roger L. Goldman is the nation’s foremost expert on police licensing and license revocation laws. For more than two decades he has been helping states write and adopt laws that provide for removing the license or certificate of an officer who engages in serious misconduct, such as sexual assault and brutality.

When Professor Goldman began to address the problem of unfit police officers’ moving from one department to another within a state, 15 states were without decertification/revocation laws. Today, only six states remain without revocation authority; he is now working with individuals in those states to enact such laws to keep bad officers off their streets. Professor Goldman’s ultimate goal is to help create a federally mandated national data bank of decertified police officers to prevent them from moving and being employed in a different state.

Educated at Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Professor Goldman is also a leading expert on the U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional law. In addition to his many articles on police licensing, he is an author of three books on the U.S. Supreme Court: The Role of the Supreme Court in Protecting Civil Rights and Liberties; Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.: Freedom First; and Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All, which was a finalist for the 1992 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Both national and local media frequently seek Professor Goldman’s professional commentary.”

Goldman is a fellow Harvard University Class of 1963 alum.



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Bio source: https://www.slu.edu/law/faculty/emeritus/roger-goldman.php

Roger Goldman is an emeritus faculty member at Saint Louis University School of Law

31/08/2020

Listen in on the latest episode of THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast where Kent and friends welcome guest and Harvard classmate Roger Goldman, Saint Louis University School of Law professor emeritus, to talk police decertification. The guys are also joined by Mason Morfit, a roommate of Kent’s while at Harvard.

The question the group tosses around in this episode: “Is police decertification the answer to police brutality and ‘bad apple’ cops?”

Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app. More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/.



Listen on Transistor:
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Is police decertification the answer to police brutality and "bad apple" cops?

28/08/2020

Before all festivals were canceled, Kent and Jeanne made it to the Savannah Book Festival with their newly released book, THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD. While there they had discussed the book and had a book signing, with a discussion aired on C-SPAN which you can watch below.

More info about the THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/. Don’t forget to listen and subscribe on your favorite app.



https://www.c-span.org/video/?468718-11/the-negroes-harvard

Ken Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth looked back at the journeys of 18 black men who were admitted into Harvard in 1959 during the civil rights movement.

26/08/2020

Kent and Larry Sparano of ON TARGET talked economy and jobs back in June.
“As the economy continues to sputter, there are renewed calls for a massive government jobs program. It would guarantee a government-sponsored job to anyone who wants one. Would it work? And would it be a long-term boost to the U.S. Economy?”



https://youtu.be/Rb8YQxc3axU

As the economy continues to sputter, there are renewed calls for a massive government jobs program. It would guarantee a government-sponsored job to anyone w...

24/08/2020

Still not sure how to recognize privilege? Michael Yates lays it out here in this TEDx Talk from 2017, delving into the Culture of Power and how he’s empowering others to view themselves in a different way.

More info about the THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/. Don’t forget to listen and subscribe on your favorite app.



https://youtu.be/t2-RvClIZdE

Everyone will walk away from this talk knowing something about privilege! Often times the thing that separates us from other people is the way we are viewing...

21/08/2020

The New York Times interviewed Kent shortly after the release of THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD back in February 2020. In this interview, Kent talks about his influences in addition to the book and the writing process.

More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/. Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/16/books/last-negroes-harvard-kent-garrett-interview.html

Kent Garrett, who with Jeanne Ellsworth wrote “The Last Negroes at Harvard,” talks about how they found the African-American men of the class of 1963.

19/08/2020

The 8:01 Fact Check with Kent Garrett can be heard weekday mornings, 8:01am – 9:00am, on WIOX Community Radio. In this program, Kent takes a regional focus on world and national news, sports, politics, local weather, and interviews with a diverse array of luminaries.

The August 3rd episode takes on Stella Immanuel’s false claims that there is a cure for COVID-19 and that masks are unnecessary. Doctors lie, too. The 8:01 keeps track.

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https://youtu.be/b8-wXX_YA8c

lies about COVID-19

17/08/2020

In THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD August 12th podcast episode we welcomed guest Matthew Alemu, PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan, to talk white privilege.

In his recent opinion piece for the Detroit Free Press, Alemu states, “[w]hat remains undiscussed is the daily – mostly unintentional – complicity of whites in the maintenance of systemic racism.” He goes on to offer suggestions to white Americans for meaningful, genuine actions for standing in solidarity with African Americans. Alemu provides insight into the white privilege that many white Americans don’t see, much less acknowledge, and how by not seeing it, are only compounding the issue.

Read the whole piece at the link below and leave us a comment with your thoughts.

Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD podcast on your favorite app. More info about the podcast and book and how to purchase here: https://thelastnegroesatharvard.com/.



Read: https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2020/07/07/solidarity-not-acknowledging-your-white-privilege-but-relinquishing/5375261002/

It's time to talk about the daily —mostly unintentional — complicity of whites in the maintenance of systematic racism.