Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJack Dempsey, "Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan's Civil War African Americans" (Michigan Civil War Association, 2024)
Episode 257
Michigan's African Americans played critical roles in winning the Civil War and setting millions of fellow Americans forever free. The 1st Michigan C…
1 year, 7 months ago
Alexander Smalls and Nina Oduro, "The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa" (Phaidon Press, 2024)
Episode 494
The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa (Phaidon Press, 2024) is an elegant collection of 120 home co…
1 year, 8 months ago
Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Episode 284
The evolution of basketball, and much of the social and cultural change in America, can be traced through one powerful act on the court: the slam dun…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 113
The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed…
1 year, 8 months ago
William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 365
How does time figure in racial domination? What is the relationship between the capitalist organization of time and racial domination? Could utopian …
1 year, 8 months ago
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Episode 608
In Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas (U Toronto Press, 2025), Stephanie M. Prid…
1 year, 8 months ago
Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms
Episode 257
In this episode my co-host and I had planned to talk about how the new Trump administration could create unity in America. The episode title had been…
1 year, 8 months ago
Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 494
In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses readers in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party memb…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Soundworld of Harriet Tubman
Episode 46
Just in time for Black History Month, we share an episode we’ve been excitedly working on for a number of months now. Ethnomusicologist Maya Cunningh…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Episode 253
Our book is: The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) by award-winning historian Dr…
1 year, 8 months ago