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A short take on Thuso Mbedu from South Africa who was cast as a 15-year-old enslaved black girl named Cora in the film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad.
Episode written and read by Nicole Dixon
A short take about the ways movie producers light-wash black characters.
Episode written and read by Nicole Dixon.
A short take on some varied possibilities of black casting in films adapted from African American novels.
Written by Nicole Dixon
Read by Kassandra Timm.
A short take on novelist Frank Yerby.
Written by Valerie Matthews.
Read by Kassandra Timm
A short take on Ann Petry's The Street.
Written by Angel C. Dye
Read by Kassandra Timm
A short take on superheroes Miles Morales.
Written by Terrance Wellmaker
Read by Kassandra Timm
A short take on Ben McFall, who managed the fiction section at the Strand for over four decades.
Written by Howard Rambsy
Read by Kassandra Timm
A short take on an alternative way of understanding a popular Toni Morrison quotation.
Written by Howard Rambsy II
Read by Kassandra Timm
A short take on the graphic novel Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century written by Adrian Matejka and drawn by Youssef Daoudi.
Episode written by Howard Rambsy II
Read by Kassandra Timm
A short take on Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror.
Written by Terrance Wellmaker.
Read by Kassandra Timm.
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A podcast about popular and critical responses to African American novels, artistic productions, and more.