Anna Malaika Tubbs: The Three Mothers

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

MLK Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin are household names, but what about their mothers? This hour, author Anna Malaika Tubbs explores how these three women shaped American history.

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0:37.8	I'm Manouche Zamorodi and welcome to our Mother's Day episode.
0:43.0	It seems to me that the only thing that the mother can do,
0:47.1	the Negro mother is to try from the beginning to instill in the child
0:52.2	the sense of somebodyness.
0:54.9	You may recognize this as the voice of Martin Luther King Jr.
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