Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJamila Cupid and Myescha Joell, "Who's in the Room? A Guide to Public Relations from the Black Professional Perspective" (Kendall Hunt, 2025)
Episode 1833
Who’s in the Room?: A Guide to Public Relations from the Black Professional Perspective (Kendall Hunt, 2025) has been created to serve as a resource …
10 months, 1 week ago
Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Episode 1832
The landscape of comedy has undergone a seismic shift in recent years with an increasing number of female comedians breaking through to mainstream a…
10 months, 1 week ago
Joseph L Graves, "Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 227
Why Black People Die Sooner is a powerful and rigorous examination of the ways racism shapes health and disease. Joseph L. Graves Jr. demonstrates th…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Caitlin Wiesner, "Between the Street and the State: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism Amid the War on Crime" (U Pennsylvania, 2025)
Episode 1830
Beginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencies established to carry out the federal “war on crime” offered financial and ideological support…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026)
Episode 1829
Exploring 500 years of protest and resistance in US history—and how its force is foundational and can empower us to navigate our chaotic world
In thi…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 44
They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people f…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Black Girls and How We Fail Them
Episode 1827
From hip-hop moguls and political candidates to talk radio and critically acclaimed films, society communicates that Black girls don’t matter and the…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Theresa Delgadillo, "Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Episode 1826
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 326
Sarah Derbew’s new book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2022) asks how should articulations of blackness from the fifth centur…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
Episode 238
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life (FSG, 2023) is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon…
11 months ago