On this episode, we speak to Vanessa Williams. Vanessa is the cofounder of Red Rice and Beans Diaspora Bookstore as well as the program manager for Teaching for Change in the DC area. We speak about the relationship between history and the present, how Black women in the south lead the way for liberation, and her preoccupation with time. 

Learn more about Red Rice and Beans Diaspora Bookstore here: https://www.rrbbookstore.com/

Episode Highlights

1:30 the beginning of Red Rice and Beans

10:10 sisters in the South leading the way for us getting free

18:00 How teaching is a part of her identity

23:00 Her relationship with time

27:20 curation process for RRB

31:00 Engaging books from the entire Black Diaspora

36:05 the role of indy bookstores in justice and joy 

43:40 Teaching for Change

52:00 GoGo History in Classrooms

54:00 Black Lives Matter At School

57:00 Wildest Dream for Red Rice and Beans/Call to Action