"We just wanna live. We wanna go out and enjoy our lives. We don't wanna talk about this all the time. We gonna talk about it when it's happening, but we are trying to build, we're trying to love, we're trying to have our families, we're trying to eat good. We're trying to travel the …
Pearl Cleage: Blues for An Alabama Sky
"We sit in the dark around the campfire and we listen to someone tell us the stories of our tribe, and we've been doing that as humans forever... And you can call it theater, call it film, call it whatever. We have to, there's no other way to know what's important, what's beautiful, what's courageous, …
BONUS Episode: Dr. Clarence Lusane returns
Celebrating Black History Month, Lissa was invited by Books & Books in Miami to interview Dr. Clarence Lusane about his recent work, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy, (City Lights 2023). Join us for this in depth conversation linking past to present. https://givensbmr.libsyn.com/bonus-episode-dr-clarence-lusane-returns Link to purchase the …
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Wanda M. Morris, Anywhere You Run – a novel
"We are just a stepping stone away from being back in 1964, if you think that the overturning of Roe v. Wade was gonna be it and it was gonna stop there, I would bet you a mortgage payment, you're wrong. The gist of the book is if you don't vote, then you're part of …
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Clarence Lusane, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
"There should be a fear of us moving towards a full blown authoritarian state. We shouldn't be under the illusion that it's never happened here and that there's no experience of people not having democratic rights. It absolutely has happened. So, how do we combat and mobilize around preventing the country from going further and …
BONUS OPPORTUNITY: Signifyin’ and Testifyin’ Black Storytellers Alliance presents the 32nd Annual Black Master Storytellers Festival
Three amazing events, 3 venues, family friendly. Different stories every night. Visit Black Storytellers Alliance https://livestream.com/accounts/3288636/events/10598262/player?width=640&height=360&enableInfoAndActivity=true&defaultDrawer=&autoPlay=true&mute=false Livestream provided in partnership with iDream.tv http://www.iDream.tv - A Multimedia Production Company
Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly
“ I don't think that there's any neutral for people. I think people see Black women in extremes” Megan Giddings Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times—a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young …
Playwright Lynn Nottage: Sweat
"There's a phrase that I cling to when I'm writing, which is -sustain the complexity" Lynn Nottage In this episode, Lissa talks with Lynn Nottage during the run of Sweat, performed at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter. She is the first, and remains the only, woman to …
Author Kristin Henning: The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
“I will never forget the day that I walked into that courthouse and I encountered a group of young boys in the hallway chained together at their arms and legs. I had no idea that we shackled children in contemporary America." The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, by Kristin Henning (Pantheon) In The …
Andrea Jenkins on The T is Not Silent and intersections of art and politics
" To change hearts and minds, we have to touch people's hearts and minds. Some of the most influential changes that have happened in our society come through creative processes...," says Andrea Jenkins in response to Lissa's question about the role of art in her political life. Andrea Jenkins is the author of the poetry …
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