Black & Published

This week on Black & Published , Nikesha speaks with Dolen Perkins-Valdez , about her new historical fiction novel, Happy Land . The books is based on the true story of how a group of Black peopl...

This week on Black & Published , Nikesha speaks with Myah Ariel , author of the novel, No Ordinary Love . Myah, who is a journalist, film enthusiast, and lover of all things pop culture said she ...

This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Esme Addison , author of the novel An Intrigue of Witches . The historical mystery novel takes the reader on a treasure hunt with the main char...

This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Jacqueline Crooks, author of the novel, Fire Rush . It's a book that took her 16 years to bring into the world after getting a late start in wr...

This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Jill Tew , author of the YA dystopian romance novel, The Dividing Sky . It's a book Jill says she hopes disrupts old norms for her young a...

This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Olufunke Grace Bankole , author of The Edge of Water. The book began as a short story and Olufunke has been working to bring it to fruition as ...

This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Jodi M. Savage , author of the essay collection, Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind . It’s a ...

This week, Nikesha speaks with Donna Hill, the newly named executive director of The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, right in the heart of Brooklyn.  Today, as in Thursday M...

This week on Black & Published , Nikesha speaks with Aaliyah Bilal, author of the short-story collection Temple Folk . The collection is made up of ten short stories about Black Americans who ide...

This week on Black & Published , Nikesha speaks with Jamila Minnicks, author of the novel, Moonrise Over New Jessup . It's a book written about a small, Black, Alabama enclave in the 1950s f...