We are reviewing essays 11-15 from authors Kaia Naadira, Deran Young, Sonya Renee Taylor, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, and Yolo Akili Robinson

Part 1 of a series of parts on this anthology about vulnerability, shame resilience, and the black experience.

This episode the bruhs discuss Assata, an Autobiography. The memoir details her journey from community activist through her framing and eventually political exile. This personal account provides insight into the very layered mind of Assata. The team questions some of her decisions and wonder, “did it really have to go down like it did?” Listen as we try to deconstruct the complicated and incomparable life of Assata.

Stay With Me - Some marry love. Some marry for money. But when the locus of your marriage's purpose comes from a place without, what are those involved to do to keep the love within? Stay With Me, is the interrupted love story of Yejide (ye gee day) and Akin (akeen), lovers content with one another, whose happiness is put under the strain of pressures of family and what others define a family to be. When the couple experience difficulty having a child, they find they have no safe refuge in family. The ends to which the lovers go to satisfy perceived wants and needs lead to an intimate story of shock, betrayal, and ultimately redemption as told by from the perspective of both spouses.

This episode the bruhs discuss From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamata Taylor. Keeanga-Yamata does an excellent job deconstructing the myths around injustices inflicted on blacks, dispelling negative myths regarding work ethic, morals, and will to achieve. We’re taken on a succinct and tacit journey from the middle passage all the way to the killing of Michael Brown. Taylor indicts white-supremacists, black activists, and the black bourgeois for perpetuating the narrative that has been so harmful to blacks. Join the bruhs in this passionate discussions.

On this episode, the Da Bruhs explore Shawn D. Rochester’s “The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America.” The book gives discrete examples not only of how being black causes one to pay more for homes, cars, and all of life’s necessities, but also the missed opportunities and lost wages black people often aren’t even aware of. Join us, as the Da Bruhs share stories of being taxed and the impact on the greater society.

Da Bruhs take on “Hurricanes,” a memoir of Rick Ross. Ross chronicles his life growing up as a middle-class black kid in Mississippi who is uprooted to Miami once his dad got a promotion. It wouldn’t be long before the allure of the streets beckoned him into a life of hustling. We are taken from his early adolescence through his days as a correctional officer and onto his rise as a Rap heavyweight. Da Bruhs meet this story with the skepticism, adulation and hostility usually reserved for the play cousin that likes to lie. Tune in as the Da Bruhs discus