Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care
Original Air Date: 10.20.2025
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Prince Shakur reads Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August
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Margaret finishes her talk with Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan
Sources:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill
https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/
https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d
The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield
https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill
https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948
https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass
https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/
https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm
https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm
https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/
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Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan.
Source:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill
https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/
https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d
The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield
https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill
https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948
https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass
https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/
https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm
https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm
https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/
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Margaret finishes up reading you a story about punks, growing up, and refusing to lose your edge
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