Here's why Richard Wright’s autobiography Black Boy, Margaret Walker Alexander’s novel Jubilee and John Oliver Killens’s novel ‘Sippi are held in high regard by most black folks from Mississippi.
Episode by C. Liegh McInnis -- poet, short story writer, author of eight books, former editor of Black Magnolias Literary Journal, and nationally noted Prince scholar. 

Here's how a book can be initially misunderstood and ignored, then gain literary recognition and acclaim, become adopted by the education system and taught broadly, and then become banned. 

Episode by Richard Schur.  Read by Kassandra Timm. 

The story of Richard Wright’s Native Son, the first black American best-seller, a novel that is both a shocking page-turner, and a philosophical provocation stirring controversy to this day. 

Episode by Joseph G. Ramsey, a professor of English and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.   Read by Kassandra Timm

Here's how high school students at a school in Maryland responded to Toni Morrison's the Seven Days from Song of Solomon.  
Episode by Abbey Morgan. 

College students at one university have expressed a range of feelings about the many new words that they encounter when reading Colson Whitehead’s novel The Intuitionist. 
Episode by Howard Rambsy II
The script was read by Kassandra Timm.

Paul Beatty’s novel The Sellout became the first novel by an American to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2016.
Episode by Cameron Leader-Picone 

A brief discussion of the prolific scholarship on African American novels by scholar Trudier Harris.
Episode by Howard Rambsy II
The script was read by Kassandra Timm.

The stories behind the reception to Larsen’s novel.
Episode written by Donavan Ramon 
The script was read by Kassandra Timm.

What can we learn about the differences among the 11 novels Toni Morrison published when we consider her word usage?
Episode by Howard Rambsy II