On toight’s edition of Bring It On!, host Clarence Boone spends the hour with Audrey Thomas McCluskey. She is an American writer and professor emeriti.

She is an alumna of Indiana University where she was an African American and African Diaspora Studies professor and former director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. She received a B.A. magna cum laude from Clark Atlanta University, an M.A. in African Studies, from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in Historical and Comparative Education from IU. She wrote the book Forgotten Sisterhood about four influential female African American educators in the South.

In describing tonight’s guest, the Herald Times wrote the following: “Author, editor and Indiana University professor emerita Audrey McCluskey grew up in America’s Jim Crow South. While no longer teaching classes at IU, she is sharing through her latest book — her memoir, GIRLCHILD: Growing Up between the Pines and Palms in Jim Crow Georgia and Florida. You can purchase her book at audreytmccluskey.com, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.

We then ends tonights broadcast with two segments of “Dark Past, Bright Future”, which are produced and narrated by Liz Mitchell. They are about Madame C.J. Walker and James Somerset, a former slave that sued for and won his freedom.

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