Daughter Dialogues
Listen to real-life stories from women of color who honor their ancestors' fight to achieve independence for the United States of America and are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). The host, Reisha Raney, a black leader in the DAR and a direct descendant of President Thomas Jefferson's grandfather, is conducting research as a Harvard University non-resident fellow, under the direction of Henry Louis Gates, Jr, host of the PBS Special "Finding Your Roots", exploring the lives of DAR members of color and their ancestry which includes men and women of American Indian, black or African descent, and white or European descent who contributed to the founding of the USA. Who are these descendants? What challenges did they overcome researching their genealogy? New episodes are released every Thursday. Visit DaughterDialogues.com to subscribe to the newsletter and meet more members of color. Follow us @DaughterDialogs on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. This is not an official podcast of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). This podcast is independent and does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the NSDAR. The President General is the official spokesperson of NSDAR.
Episodes
34 episodes
Daughter Dialogues season two: Reflection
Announcing the end of season two, Daughter Dialogues will return on Thursdays in September (postponed until February 2022). This episode includes observations in review of season two, listener comments, podcast statistics, announcements o...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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44:46
Yolanda Bogan: Psychologist. Croatan Indian patriot. Health and racism pandemics.
Yolanda discusses her Croatan Native American Revolutionary War patriot Ephraim Manuel, son of 7th great grandfather Nicholas Manuel who was enslaved with his wife Bungey, both being of African descent in Elizabeth City County, Virginia; Nichol...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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1:17:33
Carol Hector-Harris: Journalist. Never enslaved Africa born patriot, Ghana.
Carol talks about descending from Quock Martrick, born in 1756 Ghana, Africa, who served with George Washington in the American Revolution and was with Benedict Arnold when he left his post; spending three years searching for Quock’s slave mast...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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1:44:44
Dawn Dance: Brain trauma survivor. I’m not “nothing” anymore.
Dawn discusses surviving multiple traumatic brain conditions; being called both a honkey and the “N-word” as a Creole mixed race child growing up in California; being a Georgetown University 272 slave descendant; and descending from Marie There...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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1:21:43
True Lewis: Veteran. Women shouldn’t be in the military.
True talks about her family legacy of four generations of firstborns, with her being the first woman, serving in the U.S. Armed Forces; joining the U.S. Army despite her “mom” (grandmother) and birth father feeling that women should not be in t...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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58:10
Marcia Lamar: Travel Manager. Yank, white Frank’s black nickname troubles.
Marcia talks about how the Clotilda, the last ship that transported slaves after their trade from Africa was abolished, carried the captives who bought land to create Africatown in Alabama, where her father lived; disheartened learning her ance...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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1:31:47
Karen Harmon: Pianist, scientific editor. Proud to descend from bold women.
Karen talks about great aunt Bernice Gaines Hughes, the first black female Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Armed Forces, serving in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in England and France WWII, aviation cadet; maternal 2nd great grandmother...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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1:14:48
Gabrielle Burrell: Acadian’s towering Daughter. Braving shyness, descendants’ ties.
Gabrielle shares how towering over her family at 6’2”, she struggled to overcome nervousness about joining the Daughters of the American Revolution in which she discovered new-found black and white relatives who were members that share descenda...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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35:28
Nicka Smith: Ancestry consultant, Cherokee slave owner’s descendant, Nation citizen.
Nicka Sewell-Smith discusses attaining her Cherokee Nation citizenship; being a descendant of Cherokee Old Settler Chief John Rogers Jr., who by force, reproduced with her 4th great grandmother Annie May, of African descent and enslaved by anot...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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1:17:45
Pazetta Mallette: Mathematician, Native American History Orator, Best All-Around.
Pazetta shares oral history about growing up in Boyce, Louisiana on a former plantation, living in the caretaker’s home with slave cabins on the property; her Choctaw Indian great grandmother Milly being traded by an Indian chief, possibly her ...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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1:33:34
Leslie McKesson: Equity Professor. Theodosia’s two Revolutionary War husbands.
Leslie talks about Theodosia, who ran off with cousin and Leslie’s Revolutionary War patriot, William Dula (Dooley) of Irish descent, leaving her first husband, Revolutionary War patriot John Patrick McMullan, and their children without divorci...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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1:42:42
Karen Batchelor: First black DAR member. It took a village.
Karen discusses being admitted to the DAR in 1977 as the first known black member by defying resistance within the society; inquiring about admission to the DAR by writing local chapters, upon the suggestion of archivist and friend Margaret War...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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1:38:37
Karen Batchelor: First black DAR member. Genealogical pioneer.
Karen talks about discovering her white Revolutionary War patriot William Hood, who earned her place as the first black woman to be admitted to the DAR; her white maternal great grandmother Jennie Daisy Hood marrying black Prince Albert Weaver,...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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1:00:40
Karen Batchelor: First black DAR member. Somebody has to.
Karen shares stories about how her childhood shaped her into a pioneer having the courage and resilience to defeat opposition she faced when applying to become the first black member of the DAR; her parents being fervent civil rights activists ...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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59:34
Daughter Dialogues season two: Preview
Starting off Black History Month with the first black member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Karen Batchelor, Daughter Dialogues returns for season two on the first Thursday of February! Learn what to expect to hear from Karen and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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6:17
Daughter Dialogues season one: Reflection
Announcing the end of season one, Daughter Dialogues will return on the 1st Thursday of February at the start of Black History Month. This episode includes observations in review of season one, listener comments and shout outs to social media f...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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59:17
Charlotte Chatfield: Veteran. White female ancestor's black child, 1871.
Charlotte shares stories about her white great-great-great-grandmother who had a child with a black man and descended from Revolutionary War patriot William Lindsey Durham whose grandson is the namesake of the city in North Carolina; and her We...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:13:26
Bianca Alexander: Global educator, principal. Creole colorism, classism.
Bianca talks about leading schools in the Middle East; and her Creole culture in which cousins intermarried to remain fair complexioned and preserve their culture, her grandmother deciding to passe blanc (pass for white), being adamant about no...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:33:25
Sharri Phillips: Farmer’s Daughter. Fueling Lincoln’s assassin, Christiana Riot.
Sharri talks about her family’s effect on Abraham Lincoln’s assassin during an intertwined story concerning the Fugitive Slave Act, negotiated by her maternal relative U.S. Senator Henry Clay, inciting the Christiana Riot in Lancaster County, P...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:38:59
Stephani Miller: Life Coach. Exposing falsified and denied oral histories.
Stephani talks about how her Revolutionary War patriot James Due was not Scottish but instead a black man living with a white woman; and proving that her ancestor Vilmont Schexnayder was born to Norbert, a white man who had a child with a slave...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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55:32
Shelley Murphy: From survivor to Jefferson’s enslaved laborers researcher.
Shelley tells about her journey from surviving as a high school drop-out, victim of domestic abuse, and a young single mother to earning her doctorate and becoming a University of Virginia researcher, investigating president Thomas Jefferson’s ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:30:04
A’Lelia Bundles: Madam C.J. Walker and a Family Legacy of Pioneers
Author of the biography that inspired Self Made, the Netflix series about her great-great-grandmother Madam C. J. Walker, an entrepreneur, philanthropist, activist and hair care industry pioneer, A’Lelia Bundles talks about her direct ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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2:03:00
Holly Henderson: Autism Advocate. Ancestors’ genetic morse code.
Holly discusses raising three Uniquely Special children on the Autism Spectrum, each with accompanying health challenges, after leaving her position as a gubernatorial appointee working as the Deputy Director of Communications for BWI Airport a...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:10:42
Adrienne Abiodun: Part 2. Overcoming generational shame.
Adrienne talks about how she discovered that the black man listed as the father on her grandfather's birth certificate was a lie but instead was a white man named James Moffett from 1924 segregated Mississippi; working through generational sham...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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44:11
Adrienne Abiodun: Part 1. Off the grid globetrotter. Enduring loss.
Adrienne discusses the need for greater suicide prevention support for military personnel after she endured losing her father, who served in the U.S. armed forces, to unaddressed mental trauma; losing her hearing at 16 years old from a car acci...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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44:08
