Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North " (FSG, 2025)
Episode 1968
Winner of the MAAH Stone Book Award Winner of the 2025 Avern Cohn Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2025, A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 selecti…
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Lucas L. Johnson II, "Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
Episode 1967
As we approach the 50th anniversaries of Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots (1976) and its landmark television adaptation (1977), journa…
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Deirdre Mayer Dougherty, "Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Episode 1966
Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland (Rutgers University Press, 2025) considers the everyday experiences of comm…
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Kamau Ware, "Battle in the Margins: Black Experiences in New York City During the American Revolution" (Black Gotham Experience)
Episode 1965
While Lexington and Concord claim significance as the sites of the American Revolution’s opening battles, New York City’s geography, population densi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Courtney Weikle‑Mills, "Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Episode 1964
What if children’s literature was never as innocent as we imagine?
In Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement (Johns Hop…
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Bernadette Ludwig, "Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Episode 1963
Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America (Rutgers University Press, 2025) is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten I…
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Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" (HarperCollins, 2021)
Episode 1962
In 2021, the NAACP Image Award-winning poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers made her fiction debut with The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, a magisterial epic o…
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Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Episode 1961
Food justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to be done about it. But how can we create a wo…
2 months ago
Nancy Folbre, "Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 1960
A bold critique of conventional economics that reveals why the time and money we devote to care work is vital to our economic future.
Our economy i…
2 months ago
Beronda L. Montgomery, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy" (Henry Holt & Co.)
Episode 1959
The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were domesticated by an enslaved African named Antoine; syca…
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