A tribute to Douglas Tuner Ward, Founder of the Negro Ensemble Company and lifelong champion and trailblazer for black artists.

Has America ever been the land of the free? Steven Anthony Jones reads the words of Archibald Grimké, a black American lawyer, journalist and diplomat who held a mirror up to the hypocrisy of the promises of America in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Anger scares us. But is it a positive and necessary too for change? Audre Lorde thought so. Kaliswa Brewster explores opening up to using anger as a catalyst for process by reading Lorde's "Uses of Anger."

The Insurrection at The Capitol on January 6, 2021 was not the first attempt to overthrow US government by white supremacists. In this episode, Steven Anthony Jones reads from Charles S Morris' account of the successful overthrow in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898.

Steven Anthony Jones reads several short pieces that celebrate the things that Black Americans are carrying into 2021- this much needed New Year. The pieces highlight the humor, love, music, resilience, grace, hope, and strength that have held Black Americans for 400 years and are valuable tools as we enter the next 400 (and more).

Kaliswa Brewster reads excerpts from Gwendolyn Brooks 1954 novel, Maude Martha, which explores the day to day, month to month, year to year regular life of a Black girl as she grows into a Black woman.

Steven Anthony Jones reads W.E.B. DuBois' piece, "The Criteria of Negro Art."

In this Post-Election celebration episode, Steven Anthony Jones and Kaliswa Brewster read pieces that celebrate Blackness.

A working class, grass roots activist from Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer inspired the country with her fight for the right for Black people to vote. Kaliswa Brewster reads her Speech "We're On Our Way"

In one of his lesser known speeches, "Give Us the Ballot," which was given in 1957, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr presses the United States Government for Black people's right to vote.