Hey what's happening! Just short episode is to let you know that I have rebranding the podcast and will be relaunching it on December 14, 2022.

The podcast used to be called, "The Black and Proud" podcast. It's now, "The Black History Podcast".

I will be bringing you more great black history stories, that cover everything from politics to sports, and pop culture to modern history.

If you enjoy hearing and learning about black history, then I encourage you to follow or subscribe to the podcast on whatever podcast platform, you listen to your podcasts on.

In this episode I share the story of a black man that most people have never heard of, Mr. Charlie Sifford. Mr. Sifford was the first black golfer to earn his PGA card in 1960.

Mr. Sifford is often known as the "Jackie Robinson of Golf" because like Jackie Robinson, he had to overcome mountain of racism and harassment just to play the game he enjoyed since he was a kid.

If it was not for Mr. Sifford's heroic efforts, players like Tiger Woods, VJ Singh, Calvin Peete, Lee Elder and others may not have had the opportunity to play the game and achieve the things they have in the sport.

During my research on Mr. Sifford I discovered some interesting things about his life that I had not known and I share those things in the episode.

Got another great black history story to share with you, "The Tulsa Massacre" and "Black Wall Street".

Black Wall Street or "Little Africa" as it was also known, was a 35 block area of the "Greenwood District" part of Tulsa, OK.

Greenwood contained approximately 10,000 residents and they all were black. Not only did all blacks live in Greenwood, but every business in Greenwood were owned by black people.

The main street 'Greenwood Ave." contained everyone from barber shop, to post offices and everything in between.

Greenwood was a completely self-sufficient area and it was one of the most affluent black communities in America at that time.

On June 1, 1921 it all came to an end, when a mop of over 1,000 white men, stormed the district and started killing the residents and burning down all of their homes and businesses.

The situation was sparked by a 19 year old black boy named, "Dick Rowland" who allegedly assaulted a 17 year old white girl, while the two were on an elevator together.