About Nicole Powell

Nicole Powell was born and raised in the city of Los Angeles. Nicole Powell is a J.D. Candidate in the Critical Race Studies specialization at the UCLA School of Law. Nicole earned her Masters in Theological Studies (African-American Religious Studies) from Harvard Divinity School, and she earned her undergraduate degree in Communication Studies/Journalism from Loyola Marymount. Nicole is honored and humbled to be a host on New Books in African-American Studies. She is thankful to her family and her community for investing and pouring into her. She is grateful to the authors for sharing communion with her, for the work that they create, and for the future worlds that they imagine.

Nicole Powell is a J.D. Candidate in the Critical Race Studies specialization at the UCLA School of Law.

NBN Episodes hosted by Nicole:

Philip Butler, "Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

July 21, 2021

Critical Black Futures

Philip Butler
Hosted by Nicole Powell

Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), edited by Dr. Philip Butler, imagines worlds, afrofutures, …

Philip Butler, "Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Technology and Spirituality" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

July 29, 2020

Black Transhuman Liberation Theology

Philip Butler
Hosted by Nicole Powell

In his book Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Technology and Spirituality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), Philip Butler explores what might happen if…

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)

October 3, 2019

The Dark Fantastic

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Hosted by Nicole Powell

Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but…

William Sturkey, "Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White" (Harvard UP, 2019)

September 10, 2019

Hattiesburg

William Sturkey
Hosted by Nicole Powell

If you really want to understand Jim Crow—what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it—you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hat…

Courtney Pace, "Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

July 24, 2019

Freedom Faith

Courtney Pace
Hosted by Nicole Powell

Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall (University of Georgia Press, 2019) is the first full-length critical study of Rev. Dr. Prathia Lau…