Season 7: Episode 5 | HBW’s Novel Collection
A short take on the expansive novel collection amassed by the History of Black Writing (HBW), created by Maryemma Graham.
Season 7: Episode 1 | One of the Smartest Characters in African American Fiction
A short take on a character that many readers view as one of the smartest characters in African American fiction.
Season 6: Episode 6 | The Color Purple Musical Adaptation
A short take on responses to a novel-turned-musical.
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 6: Episode 3 | The Bluest Eye Doesn’t Go Down Easy
Are the people who ban books ever right, if only by accident?
Season 6: Episode 1 | Black Men Novelists and Intellectual Traditions
A short take on an interconnected thread of intellectualism in novels by black men.
Season 5: Episode 7 | Terry McMillan’s Waiting to Exhale
Terry McMillan’s novel was among a chorus of late twentieth-century books that signaled a reawakening in the African American cultural imagination and revealed a strong interest in the representation of Black love, romance, and marriage.
Season 5: Episode 6 | How Students Connect to Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”
A short take on how students at a college in Georgia respond to Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal.”
Season 5: Episode 5 | The Mixed Results of Sutton Grigg’s Debut
Despite revieing positive reviews, why did Sutton Griggs have some unfavorable feelings about the circumstances surrounding his first book?
Season 5: Episode 3 | Angie Thomas and Literary Activism
Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give found a raw edge that audiences were keen to address.