Season 5: Episode 4 | Black Women Writers Courses
Here’s a short take on where all those Black Women Writers courses come from.
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.
Season 5: Episode 2 | Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy
College students are often excited to discuss the subtle radicalism of Iola Leroy by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Season 4: Episode 5 | The Sisterhood, 1977 Photograph
A brief take on a photo titled “The Sisterhood, 1977,” which has been a source of inspiration for countless readers and viewers.
Season 4: Episode 3 | The Evolving Reception of The Bluest Eye
Here’s how a book can be initially misunderstood and ignored, then gain literary recognition and acclaim, become adopted by the education system and taught broadly, and then become banned.
Season 4: Episode 1 | Toni Morrison and the Seven Days
Here’s how high school students at a school in Maryland responded to Toni Morrison’s the Seven Days from Song of Solomon.
Season 3: Episode 4 | Trudier Harris’s Prolific Scholarship on African American Novels
A brief discussion of the prolific scholarship on African American novels by scholar Trudier Harris.
Season 3: Episode 3 | Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929)
The stories behind the reception to Larsen’s novel.
Season 3: Episode 2 | Toni Morrison and Vocabulary
What can we learn about the differences among the eleven novels Toni Morrison published when we consider her word usage?
Season 3: Episode 1 | Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
The multifaceted responses to a novel about a Black woman becoming.