{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The bad process of 'They Came Before Columbus'","description":" &quot;They Came Before Columbus&quot; is a&amp;nbsp; popular enough book that claims Africans came to the Americas and played a significant role in shaping Indigenous Histories. The book, and research, uses a bad process of sorting through history, misaligned times, leaps of faith, misquotes, and more than what I actually cover. For those of us who have lost a lot of our history, it can be easy to fall into more fantastical views of the past, oversized importance. But this is bad history, and it is also a duplication&amp;nbsp;of a process that has erased the histories of people&amp;nbsp;across the globe, especially in the Americas.&amp;nbsp;  ","author_name":"Finding the Warmth of Our Sun","author_url":"http:\/\/findingthewarmthofoursun.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/20403275\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/20403275"}