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NBN Episodes hosted by Vershawn:
February 17, 2014
The Sovereignty of Quiet
Musician James Brown is famous for his civil rights slogan, "Say it loud; I'm Black and I'm proud," illustrating the argument that Kevin Quashie makes…
February 5, 2014
Alex Haley's Roots
Alex Haley's 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family still stands as a memorable epic journey into the history of African Americans during the…
January 29, 2014
Conflict
Cindy Hooper is a veteran of various local, state, and national political campaigns. She is the founder of a national organization for African America…
August 9, 2013
White Bound
Whiteness studies has confirmed that race is a social construction, even for whites, and that the identity we understand as white is also a social inv…
July 18, 2013
Vernacular Insurrections
You know you are not going to get the same old story about progressive literacies and education from Carmen Kynard, who ends the introduction to her b…
July 11, 2013
PHD to Ph.D.
Elaine Richardson recounts the Jamaican mother wit that her "mama dished out...in artless artful sayings" but that Richardson "tried to desperately di…
July 8, 2013
A Most Stirring and Significant Episode
The American Temperance Movement remains an interesting and important topic. Considering the various attitudes that influenced laws about alcohol sale…
June 23, 2013
The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry
What do you do if you accompany a friend on her research trip to Boston University's Gotlieb Archival Research Center and end up finding a treasure tr…
May 8, 2013
Dividing Lines
Andrei Williams' provocative new book on African American class divisions in Post-Reconstruction and Jim Crow America is sure to spark spirited debate…
January 30, 2013
The Will of a People
The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012) is a compendium of 22 oration…
January 11, 2013
Clearly Invisible
Performance queen RuPaul once famously quipped that "we're born naked; the rest is drag"--meaning everyone dons identity, performs one's concept of se…
December 20, 2012
Pulling Scabs
Curtis L. Crisler is a prolific poet, novelist, and mix-genre author who writes about the American experience. In his work, Crisler turns a particular…
December 13, 2012
Moral Combat
Sikivu Hutchinson's book Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars (Infidel Books, 2011) is a brave examination of African Am…
August 15, 2012
In the Cause of Freedom
Minkah Makalani is the author of a new intellectual history on the efforts of early twentieth century black radicals to organize an international move…
July 30, 2012
This Fragile Life
When a mother listens to the beats of her own heart, where angst, fear and fortitude compete, and then beautifully weaves emotion into a story about h…
June 29, 2012
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
Picture the familiar scene: the visiting pastor thanks the local pastor for granting him the use of his pulpit; he sends out the call ("Can I just spe…
June 29, 2012
Living with Lynching
Koritha Mitchell's Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2012)…
May 29, 2012
Prove It on Me
Whoever states the old adage, "A picture is worth a thousand words" grossly underestimates. So Erin D. Chapman shows in Prove It On Me: New Negroes, S…
March 19, 2012
Hellfightin'
There is no better description of poet Makalani Bandele's debut book Hellfightin' (Willow Books, 2012) than the one found on his comprehensive websit…
March 9, 2012
Dorothy West's Paradise
One lesson that the ever-present trickster figure in African American folklore teaches is how to use signifying to protect one's intimate self. A chal…
February 16, 2012
Keepin' It Hushed
Vorris Nunley's Keepin it Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric (Wayne State University Press, 2011), uses the black barber…
January 24, 2012
!Venceremos?
Jafari S. Allen's !Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba (Duke University Press, 2011) is a meticulously researched and exquisitely th…
November 17, 2011
Street Shadows
Jerald Walker's critical autobiography, Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption (Bantam, 2010), is a sheer pleasure to read. A boo…
November 1, 2011
The Invisible Line
Daniel Sharfstein's The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White (Penguin Press, 2011) is the latest and per…