Episodes

  • Mini Jawns: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

    Mini Jawns: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
    Feb 21 2024
    To commemorate Black History Month, Visit Philadelphia in partnership with national nonprofit Little Free Library and the Free Library of Philadelphia launched Little Free(dom) Library, an initiative encouraging visitors and residents to explore Black history and narratives. Local, self-taught artist Alloyius Mcilwaine designed the colorful artwork.
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    1 min
  • Mini Jawns: Beloved by Toni Morrison

    Mini Jawns: Beloved by Toni Morrison
    Feb 21 2024
    To commemorate Black History Month, Visit Philadelphia in partnership with national nonprofit Little Free Library and the Free Library of Philadelphia launched Little Free(dom) Library, an initiative encouraging visitors and residents to explore Black history and narratives. Local, self-taught artist Alloyius Mcilwaine designed the colorful artwork.
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    1 min
  • Mini Jawns: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

    Mini Jawns: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
    Feb 21 2024
    To commemorate Black History Month, Visit Philadelphia in partnership with national nonprofit Little Free Library and the Free Library of Philadelphia launched Little Free(dom) Library, an initiative encouraging visitors and residents to explore Black history and narratives. Local, self-taught artist Alloyius Mcilwaine designed the colorful artwork.
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    1 min
  • Mini Jawns: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

    Mini Jawns: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
    Feb 21 2024
    To commemorate Black History Month, Visit Philadelphia in partnership with national nonprofit Little Free Library and the Free Library of Philadelphia launched Little Free(dom) Library, an initiative encouraging visitors and residents to explore Black history and narratives. Local, self-taught artist Alloyius Mcilwaine designed the colorful artwork.
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    1 min
  • Black History Month Promo

    Black History Month Promo
    Feb 9 2024
    During Black History Month, check out the Free Library's music events.
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    1 min
  • Mini Jawns: A Chat with Actress Pam Grier

    Mini Jawns: A Chat with Actress Pam Grier
    Feb 8 2024
    New York Times bestselling author Omar Tyree interviews legendary film actress and author Pam Grier. The revenge-seeking heroine of Blaxploitation era films like Foxy Brown, Coffy, and Black Mama White Mama, Grier is known as the original female action star.
    The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on Mini Jawns does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.
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    19 mins
  • Mini Jawns: Phebe Lewis

    Mini Jawns: Phebe Lewis
    Feb 1 2024
    According to the 1838 Black Metropolis, civil rights organizations predate the NAACP and even the Emancipation Proclamation by decades. In early 19th-century Philadelphia, Phebe (FEE-BEE) Lewis’s Daughters of Africa and other “beneficial societies” protected Black civic and economic interests. That was easier said than done before the end of slavery, but the work begun by groups like Lewis’s continues today.
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    1 min
  • Mini Jawns: William Still

    Mini Jawns: William Still
    Feb 1 2024
    According to the 1838 Black Metropolis, William Still’s Vigilance Committee kept records of hundreds of freed slaves- including his long-lost brother- who sought refuge at their headquarters at 5th & Vine in Philadelphia’s Old City. Still’s heroic efforts to help freedom seekers begin new lives has led him to be known as the Father of the Underground Railroad. 
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    1 min