Port Of Harlem Talk Radio

Our guest today is  Dr. Ida Jones.  Jones, is the author of four biographies including "Baltimore Civil Rights Leader, Victorine Quille Adams and the Power of the Ballot.” She took preserving Adam’s legacy a step further and did what was necessary to have Adams inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame.

1. Our talk today Mammy’s Revenge, is partially based in film historian and author Donald Boogle book “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films,” which he released in 1973. In the book, Bogle describes a mammy figure as "representative of the all-Black woman, over-weight, middle-aged, and so dark, so thoroughly black, that it is preposterous even to suggest that she be a sex object. Instead, she was desexed"

Almost 50 years later, we see women who could fit this description to some degree not only gain power, but use it, including:

2. Job applicants with ethnic minority sounding names are less likely to be called for interview was a hot topic six years ago, but now we see women with such name in power and using it, including: