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About Sullivan Summer
Sullivan Summer is an independent scholar, essayist, poet, podcaster, and critic. She holds an undergraduate degree in Journalism, and a law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Sullivan is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, Biographers International Organization, and African American Intellectual History Society. Her passions are in American History, Literature, and Criticism, with focus on the Black experience.NBN Episodes hosted by Sullivan:
March 25, 2026
Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today's Citizens of America
This powerful work by award-winning poet Crystal Simone Smith exposes the uncomfortable truth about America’s founding text: while Common Sense is cel…
March 16, 2026
A Precarious Balance
Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865 (UNC Press, 202…
February 28, 2026
The Book of Alice
Winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Award from The Academy of American Poets When her grandmother died, poet Diamond Forde inherited a well-worn fam…
February 17, 2026
My God's Been Silent
My God’s Been Silent (Writ Large Press, 2026) is a poetry collection that lives at the intersection of faith and fury, grief and grace. Written in the…
February 8, 2026
A Protest History of the United States
In December 2025, writer, civil rights attorney, playwright, speaker, and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Glo…
February 4, 2026
A Black Woman for President
Throughout US history, only three Black women—Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris—have given successfully recognized bids for the…
January 31, 2026
This Here Is Love
Three people—two enslaved, one indentured—living beside each other, struggling against their circumstances, trying to bend destiny. As the seventee…
January 23, 2026
The Coroner's Silence
Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s, captur…
January 7, 2026
When It's Darkness on the Delta
Once the powerhouse of a fledgling country’s economy, the Mississippi Delta has been consigned to a narrative of destitution. It is often faulted for …
January 5, 2026
Requiem for Reconstruction
The promise of Reconstruction sparked a transformative era in American history as free and newly emancipated Black Americans sought to redefine their …
December 25, 2025
A Thousand Ways to Die
A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked her daddy why,…
December 8, 2025
A Protest History of the United States
Exploring 500 years of protest and resistance in US history—and how its force is foundational and can empower us to navigate our chaotic world In thi…
November 22, 2025
The Labors of Resurrection
Western democracies are haunted. Michael Hanchard suggests that the specter of race is what haunts our democracies, but it may be more accurate to sug…
November 13, 2025
Entangled Alliances
Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hem…
November 13, 2025
Entangled Alliances
Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hem…
October 26, 2025
Basketball Trafficking
Every year, hundreds of international student athletes arrive in the U.S. chasing their basketball dreams — many on F-1 student visas. But for some th…
October 8, 2025
Resting Bitch Face
The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black fem…
September 24, 2025
Conversations with Kiese Laymon
This is a very special episode of the New Books Network, as the editor of Conversations with Kiese Laymon (UP of Mississippi, 2025), Dr. Constance Bai…
September 22, 2025
Essential Soldiers
Academics and popular commentors have expressed common sentiments about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s—that it was male dominated and…
September 14, 2025
Without Fear
Even before they were recognized as citizens of the United States, Black women understood that the fights for civil and human rights were inseparable.…
September 2, 2025
Positive Obsession
A magnificent cultural biography, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler (Amistad, 2025) charts the life of one of our greatest w…
August 25, 2025
Tell Her Story
On October 29, 1984, 66-year-old beloved Black disabled grandmother Eleanor Bumpurs was murdered in her own home. A public housing tenant 4 months beh…
August 22, 2025
Lullaby for the Grieving
With previous work hailed by the New York Times as “unflinching” and “piercing,” Ashley M. Jones’s Lullaby for the Grieving (Hub City Press, 2025) is …
August 16, 2025
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive, detailing her harrowing escape from ensl…