Season 13: Episode 6 | Ironheart – Riri Williams
A short take on comic Riri Williams, better known as Ironheart, a Black girl superhero.
Season 13: Episode 5 | Announcing Ta-Nehisi Coates as a Marvel Writer
A short take about the announcement and pre-publication reception of Ta-Nehisi Coates as a writer for Marvel comics.
Season 13: Episode 4 | When Nick Fury Became Black
A short take on how Nick Fury became a popular Black character in the Marvel universe.
Season 13: Episode 3 | Angela Bassett’s Queen Status Performance
A short take on Angela Bassett’s performance in the Black Panther sequel.
Season 13: Episode 2 | 1980s Black Superheroes
A short take on Black superheroes and their appearances in the 1980s.
Season 13: Episode 1 | Responding to Rion Amilcar Scott’s Robot, AI Story
A short take on how a few black men fiction readers provide takes on Rion Amilcar Scott’s story “The Electric Joy of Service” about robots, AI, slavery, and insurrection.
Season 12: Episode 7 | Born in Blackness and São Tomé
A short take on “one of the most important economic circuits in the history of the world.”
Season 8: Episode 1 | The 50th Episode of Remarkable Receptions
A short take about our podcast — a project that offers commentary about popular and critical responses to African American novels, novelists, and more.
Season 6: Episode 5 | Read Black Novels, Find Harriet Jacobs’s Legacy
Among the most taught, most discussed, most notable novels by Black women, we can trace Harriet Jacobs’s legacy.
Season 1: Episode 4 | Richard Wright’s Infamous Review
In October 1937, an aspiring, 29-year-old author wrote a negative assessment of a recently published novel. Here’s the story of what happened next.