Season 2

Glory Edim has spent a lifetime gathering and uplifting the stories of Black women. As a little girl in Arlington Virginia, Glory could be found at her local library reading The Bluest Eye by Toni M...

On the first day of Dr. Curtis L. Odom’s capstone business class at Northeastern, Dr. Odom tells his students that anything he says twice they should write down.  Eli Boulous, a Senior student ...

Sometimes its okay to believe the hype. Brittany Anderson had heard so much about The Final Revival of Opal and New by Dawnie Walton that she figured it was worth picking up a copy.  Little d...

Halim A. Flowers is inspiring a love revolution.  He's a prolific artist, activist, and entrepreneur who’s on another level. And for 22 years and 2 months, Halim spent his life in prison, label...

Hanif Abdurraqib was just a twelve-year-old in the 90's when he picked up Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell for the first time; he was probably too young to be reading the book and cer...

In a casual conversation with a friend in 2010, Dr. Gina Paige was introduced to a book with a bold title and an interesting premise—Brainwashed by Tom Burrell. In the book, Burrell takes the framewor...

You know a book is a real classic when you can love reading it as a child, then love it even more while re reading it as an adult.  Librarian and bookstagrammer Hawa Jalloh from @hawareads prov...

Double-Agent. Chessmaster. Trickster. Genius. Snitch. Louis E. Tackwood was the "Forrest Gump of Black Radical Politics" and there's no record of his life after 1975. But a careful eye can still find ...

In 2011, Brandon decided to take his life-long love and talent for cooking to the next level by getting his first job in the restaurant industry. The reality of the industry was not as sunny as Brando...

Dr. Shana L. Redmond is a professor of the first order. She's an interdisciplinary scholar of race, music, culture, and power and has published award-winning books. But most importantly, she is as com...