All Episodes

Episode 111 - Katie Sample, All Things Work Together for Good

Episode 110 Literacy and Liberation: Benjamin E. Mays Afrocentric Academy (S12 E4)

Episode 108 - Justin Ellis, The Cruelty of Nice Folks: Why Minneapolis Is the Story of America

Episode 109 - 100 Years of Black Freedom with performance by Phillis Wheatley

Episode 107 - Kevin Lindsey, Minnesota Humanities Center

Episode 106 - Michael Richards, Are You Down?

Episode 105 - Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things

Episode 104 - Vanessa Riley, Fire Sword & Sea

Episode 103 -Antonio Michael Downing, Saga Boy and Black Cherokee

Episode 102 - Ethelene Whitmire, The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram

Episode 101 - C.J. Farley - Who Knows You By Heart

Episode 100: A Landmark Celebration of Black Stories, Voices, and Legacy

Episode 99 - Debra Stone, The House on Rondo

Episode 98 - Leila Mottley, The Girls Who Grew Big

Episode 97 - Valerie Burns, Icing on the Murder

BONUS EPISODE: Ink, Identity, and Imagination: Literature as a Catalyst for Black Determination

BONUS EPISODE: Banned Books: The Duchess Harris Collection

Episode 96 - From Resistance to Resilience, Dr.Luke Wood

Episode 95 - Rickey Fayne, The Devil Three Times

Episode 94 - Pearl Cleage, The Nacirema Society

Episode 93 - Dr. Gail C. Christopher, Rx for Racial Healing: A Guide to Embracing Our Humanity

Episode 92 - Lisa Williamson Rosenberg, Mirror Me

Episode 91 - Publishers Roundtable

Episode 90 - Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets To Fall Apart: A memoir

Episode 89 - Danez Smith, BLUFF

Episode 88 -Taiyon J. Coleman, Traveling Without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America

Episode 87 - Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

BONUS Episode - Karen Nance: Ethel Ray, Living in the White, Gray, and Black

Episode 84 -Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

Episode 83 -Linda Villarosa, UNDER THE SKIN: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America

Episode 82 - Rose McGee, Can't Nobody Make a Sweet Potato Pie Like Our Mama

Episode 81- Dr.Keith Mayes, The Unteachables

Episode 80 - Seph Rodney, The Personalization of the Museum Visit

Episode 79 - Rob Eschmann, When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age

Episode 78 - Tracy Clark, Fall (2nd in the Detective Harriet Foster series)

Episode 77 - Jody Lulich, In the Company of Grace: A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing

Episode 76 - Keith Ellison, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence

Episode 75 - Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, Goddess of the Whole Self

Episode 74 - Davu Underwood Seru, The Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature and Life

From the Archives: Rachel Howzell Hall

Episode 73 - Santi Elijah Holley, An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

Episode 72 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, My People

Episode 71 - Shaun M. Anderson, The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #Black Lives Matter

Episode 70 - Pearl Cleage, Blues for an Alabama Sky

BONUS EPISODE: Dr. Clarence Lusane returns

Episode 69 - Wanda M. Morris, Anywhere You Run

Episode 68 - Dr. Clarence Lusane, Twenty Dollars and Change

Episode 67 - Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly

Episode 66 - Lynn Nottage, Sweat

Episode 65 -Kristin Henning, The Rage of Innocence

Episode 64 -Andrea Jenkins, The T is Not Silent

Special Edition: Race to Write: Black Authors on America's Racial Reckoning

Episode 63 - Wanda M. Morris, All Her Little Secrets

Special Edition: Team Up for Health Equity with Bukata Hayes

Episode 62 - Jayne Allen

Episode 61 - Tananarive Due on Black Horror and The Between

Episode 60 - LaTanya McQueen

Episode 59 - Resmaa Menakem

Episode 58 - Carol Anderson

Episode 57 - Morgan Jerkins on her debut novel Caul Baby

Episode 56 - Poet Javon Johnson

Bonus: Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Poems in the wake of racial injustice

Episode 55 - Can't Stop, Won't Stop with Mary Moore Easter and Bernard James

Episode 54 - Claudia Rankine

Episode 53 - Dr. Frank B. Wilderson, III

Episode 52 - Carolyn Holbrook

Episode 51 - Darren Walker

Episode 50 - Justin Phillip Reed

Episode 49 - Mapping Black Identities and Sounds of Blackness

Episode 48 - Dr. William D. Green

Episode 47 - J.Drew Lanham

Episode 46 - Remembering Toni Morrison at the 2019 Twin Cities Book Festival

Episode 45 - Douglas Kearney

Episode 44 - Kalisha Buckhanon

Episode 43 - Dr. Josie R. Johnson, Carolyn Holbrook, and Arleta Little

Episode 42 - Author Emily Bernard

Episode 41 - Debra J. Stone

Episode 40 - Ross Gay, Live from Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis

Episode 39 - Danez Smith

Episode 38 - Remembering Ntozake Shange; with Sarah Bellamy, Artistic Director of Penumbra Theatre

Episode 37 - Julian Randall

Episode 36 - DeRay McKesson

Bonus Episode: Live from Rain Taxi's Twin Cities Book Festival 2018

Episode 35 - Patricia Smith

Episode 34 - A. Rafael Johnson

Episode 33 - Dr. Artika Tyner

Episode 32 - Sonya Renee Taylor

Episode 31 - Desiree Cooper

Episode 30 - Mary Moore Easter

Episode 29 - Alexs D. Pate

Episode 28 - Screenwriter Michael Starrbury

Episode 27 - Dr. Damani Phillips

Episode 26 - Joy Dolo, founding member of Blackout Improv

Episode 25 - Justice Alan Page

Episode 24 - Duchess Harris, JD. PhD. on Race and Policing

Episode 23 - Author Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Episode 22 - Author James McBride

Episode 21 - Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati, Professor Emeritus American Studies at Macalester College

Episode 20 - Writers Carolyn Holbrook and David Lawrence Grant

Episode 19 - Author Sharon G. Flake; Artist Robin Hickman and Curator Hawona Sullivan Janzen