Season 12: Episode 5 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Most Far-Reaching Honor
A short take about a far-reaching honor bestowed on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Season 12: Episode 2 | An Unforgettable Scene from Sula
A short take on a memorable scene from Toni Morrison’s Sula.
Season 11: Episode 7 | Understanding Octavia Butler
A short take on speculative fiction writer, Octavia Butler.
Season 11: Episode 2 | Ann Petry’s The Street
A short take on Ann Petry’s The Street.
Season 10: Episode 6 | Toni Morrison’s Statement About Writing & Revision
A short take on an alternative way of understanding a popular Toni Morrison quotation.
Season 10: Episode 3 | Wayetu Moore’s She Would Be King
A short take on Wayetu Moore’s debut novel about a redheaded Black woman with supernatural powers.
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 4 | The Color Purple Film Adaptation
A short take on responses to a novel-turned-film.
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 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.