The Mocha Rich Report

This Heroinean  is not an everyday name in Indigenous history, or even in women’s history.  But she should be.  An Indigenous American washerwoman who had been born into slavery in 1861 in Rutherford County, Tennessee, she later moved to Nashville where she would launch a movement in the late 1890s for justice and civil rights that loomed so powerful and seemed so threatening to the established order of things that high-ranking officials in Washington, DC had her arrested, imprisoned, and repeatedly took a variety of measures to suppress the movement.  The more We learn about Our Story instead of his-story, the richer Our heritage becomes and the more empowered We should feel about Ourselves… Join Us, Niecey LaShelle aka Mocha Masseuse and co-host Gabriel Rich for this extraordinary account, Wednesday, 9pm EST, 8pm CST and 6pm PST on the ‘African Americans Ain’t African’ network on blogtalkradio.com.  The number to listen to the show is (657) 383-0630.  Press ‘1’ to be added to the cue to speak, live on the air.