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Podcast #245 – Ashley D. Farmer
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audrey Moore, published by Pantheon in November 2025, is this latest book by this internationally known and award-winning writer, cultural analyst, and associate professor at the Unive
February 5, 2026 28:54 Speakers: Ashley D. Farmer, Tamara Payne
Podcast #206 – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
This scholar and author’s latest book, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in August 2024. As a queer Black feminist love evangelist, Gumbs has written four earlier books, including Undrown
February 28, 2025 29:53 Speakers: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Tamara Payne
Podcast #171 – Joy-Ann Reid
This week we interview Joy-Ann Reid, host of MSNBC’s The Reid Out and a New York Times bestselling author. Reid’s latest book, Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America, was published by Mariner Books in February of this ye
March 29, 2024 29:36 Speakers: Joy-Ann Reid, Tamara Payne
Podcast #165 – Rachel Jamison Webster
This week we interview Rachel Jamison Webster, professor of creative writing at Northwestern University and the author of four books of poetry and cross-genre writing. Her latest book, Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family, w
February 16, 2024 30:48 Speakers: Rachel Jamison Webster, Tamara Payne
Podcast Episode #72 – Tamara Payne
In this week’s episode, we interview Tamara Payne. Working with her late father, the award-winning and New York-based print journalist Les Payne, Tamara Payne co-wrote The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Published in October 2020 by Liveright,
September 3, 2021 26:49 Speakers: Sonja Williams, Tamara Payne
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