In the meantime, let's discuss our Way Black History Fact. Today's Way Black History Fact is sponsored by Underground Beach Club from the Streets to the Beach. For the legist in Beachware, visit Underground Beach Club dot com and Today's Way Black History Fact is going to be a way Black History Fact. But it's also going to be a call to action become a better ally. Right, We're going
to ask you to read. We're going to discuss really the history, as I mentioned, between Black people and Palestinian people. It's a much deeper history than I knew about and that many people know about. And so we're going to share with you a book. But I'm going to tell you about the book before I ask you to go
read it. So this comes from Stanford University Press. The nineteen sixty seven Arab is Israeli War rocketed the question of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of American newspapers. Power activists saw Palestinians as a kindred people of color waging the same struggle for freedom and justice as themselves. Soon, concerns over the Arab Israeli conflicts spread across mainstream black politics and into the heart of the civil rights movement itself.
Black Power and Palestine uncovers why so many African Americans, notably Martin Luther King, Junior, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali, among others, came to support the Palestinians or felt the need to respond to those who did again. This is from nineteen sixty seven, Okay Right. Americans first heard pro Palestinian sentiments in public through the Black Freedom struggle of
the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies. Robert R. Fischbach uncovers the hidden history of the Arab Israeli conflicts role in African American activism, and the ways that distant struggle shaped the domestic fight for racial equality. Black powers, transnational connections between African Americans and Palestinians deeply affected by US black politics, animating Black visions of idea to be well into the
late nineteen seventies. Black Power and Palestine allows those Black voices to be heard again today and chronicling this story Fishbox, I'm Sorry. Fishbox reveals much about how American peoples of color create political strategies, a sense of self, and a place within the US and global communities. The shadow cast by events of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies continues to affect the United States in deep structural ways. This is the first book to explore how the conflict in
the Middle East shaped the American civil rights movement. And just so you know, because we believe in credible sources, we believe in journalistic integrity. So forth, I'm gonna tell you a little bit about the author Fishbock. He is a professor of history at Randolph Macon College. He is the author of four previous books. He was awarded grants by the Macauthur Foundation in the United States Institute of Peace. He has presented at numerous academic and diplomatic settings in
sixteen countries on for a continent. So one more times from Stanford University Press the nineteen sixty seven Arab Israeli War and the book is Black Power and Palestine. So I want to make sure we say the author's name right, that's Michael R. Fishbok. We call him Robert earlier that
I have reading, Okay, sorry about that. So knowing that a lot of what it is that we're talking about today in today's conversation, and that there's a lot of people who in recent years have taken to activism, particularly
through twenty twenty and the Black Lives Matter activism. You would imagine seeing the type of support that we're starting to see now that the information is fully diffusing through the communities, and my hope is that we will be able to support and ultimately a free Palestine.