Podcast Episodes, Interviews, and Features
Accessibility of scholarship is an important issue for Dr. Parker. To that end, she has been featured in numerous podcast and radio appearances, hoping to make her research and wider American history available to anyone who is interested.
Click on the logos below to check out some of her recent interviews.
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
Executive Produced by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman, this documentary tells the true story of the first Black tank unit to serve in combat in WWII. Dr. Traci Parker was called upon to provide her expertise on race and inequality in America during this time period.
Latino USA “The Little Black Dress: A Hidden History”
With the help of Dr. Traci Parker and former co-worker Natalie Garcia, host Monica walks listeners through the decline of an industry and the rise of a garment.
New Books Network/ New Books in African American History “Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights”
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WGBH’s Basic Black “Black Love”
Host Callie Crossley is joined by four experts, including Dr. Traci Parker, to celebrate and discuss Black love, relationships, and rituals in honor of Valentine’s Day. The episode also explored the history of the Black family and how that history shaped and impacted relationships today. The program further raised how mass incarceration, legislation, and economic prosperity touch the Black family.
HISTORY This Week Podcast “Sitting in for Civil Rights”
Dr. Traci Parker joins the History Channel to discuss the February 1, 1960 sit-in protest of four young Black men, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Jibreel Khazan, and Joseph McNeil, at the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina. How exactly did the Greensboro sit-ins come together? And why did this particular protest spread like wildfire?
“1960s Lunch Counter Sit-Ins”
Dr. Traci Parker joined American History TV and Washington Journal to take viewer questions about protests against desegregation during the 1960s.
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