The Black History Buff Podcast

Cisero Murphy (1937–1996) was an American professional pool player. Murphy was the first African-American professional pocket billiards player to ever win world and U.S. national titles.

This recording was provided by Tyriek Murphy and he does an amazing job of honouring his ancestor.  

Support the show on Patreon OR Buy me a coffee Show Notes:  Cisero Murphy (1937–1996) was an American professional pool player. Murphy was the first African-American professional pocket billiards player...

Asquith Camile Xavier was a West Indian-born Briton who ended a colour bar at British Railways in London by fighting to become the first non-white train guard at Euston railway station in 1966. Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, said in 2006: "Asquith's stand against discrimination brought to light the inadequacy of early race discrimination laws and persistent widespread discrimination faced by ethnic minorities." 

Unedited and raw, this recording is a conversation I was privileged enough to have with Figure Skating legend Rory Flack. She has a fantastic story and is the first African American to perform a black flip on Ice in a professional setting.

 

This episode is a simply amazing story of love, heroism and mutiny on the high seas, so please kick back relax and enjoy the show. Madison Washington was an American cook who started the most successful slave revolt in US history.

In this episode of the Black history Buff podcast, we look at the life of Alexandra Pushkin. I also look briefly into the Russian "Caucasian War" at the end of the show.

Born in 18th century Russia, Alexandar Pushkin was Russian nobility and would eventually become immortalised as the “Father of Russian literature.” 

Pushkin was born in Moscow, on the 26th May 1799. His great-grandfather was Abram Petrovich Gannibal. 

Netflix is not representing BLACK BOY’s on it’s platform and I decided to call them about it. 

This is my follow up call. If you’ve not seen my previous video or listened to the audio please stop now watch it and then come back to this one………

Right, you back, all up to speed? Great So if you made it to the end of the video you’ll see that there is an address to write to. 

“I’ll do my bit, now you do your bit” he said. 

So now it’s time for us to do our bit. Grab a pen some paper and write to them. 

Winning the small battles is how you eventually win the war and fair representation is a war worth fighting.

The address is:

Netflix international B.V. 
Stadhouderskade 55
1072 Ab Amsterdam 
Netherlands 

If you’d rather call the number is:

0800 096 8879

Or you can call them straight from within the app

Sooooo while enjoying some down time with my son both of us doing our best to not be social Justice Warriors. We kind up ended up finding a small cause to fight for.