With Love from Harlem: The Cost of Choosing Love

This month, we're celebrating Women's History Month with a read that hit differently. "With Love from Harlem" by ReShonda Tate is the story of Hazel Scott: jazz prodigy, film star, civil rights warrior, and one of the most famous Black women in America. A woman who made history as the first Black person to host her own national television show. A woman who was brilliant, bold, and completely on fire. And then she met Adam Clayton Powell Jr. In this episode, we're getting into all of it: the love, the sacrifice, the cost of building your life inside someone else's ambition, and what it really means to choose yourself when everything around you is asking you not to. We're also talking about McCarthyism, erasure, and the devastating truth that Hazel Scott didn't just lose her show. She was nearly scrubbed from history entirely. This one got personal. And I think it might for you too. ⚠️ Spoiler alert: This episode discusses the full arc of the novel, including the ending. If you haven't finished the book yet, read it first and come back. I'll be here. Next month's read: Kin by Tayari Jones.