The Most Dangerous Thing in America

This week in part 1 of a 3-part series I read the first third of Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition."

This week on the podcast I read Richard Wright's posthumous novel "The Man Who Lived Underground." I'm not going to link to the novel because you can find Richard Wright's books anywhere. In 2 weeks, not sure what I'll be reading but it might be by Stanley Crouch, Albert Murray or someone else.

This week on the podcast I read "Up from the Deep" by Vaughn A. Jackson. You can check out all of his stuff here: https://vaughnthewordslinger.weebly.com/ Next week (or in 2 weeks) I'll be reading "The Man Who Lived Underground" by Richard Wright

This week we read "The Other Wes Moore" by Wes Moore Next week I'll be reading...something. All I know is it will be published in 2021, so something new.

This week on the podcast we read "Blanche on the Lam" by Barbara Neely. Next week we'll be reading "The Other Wes Moore" by Wes Moore.

This week on the podcast I read "Ujamaa: Essays on Socialism" by Julius Nyerere (as well as an Ohio Short Histories of Africa's "Julius Nyerere" by Paul Bjerk for historical context). In two weeks I'll be reading "Blanche on the Lam" by Barbara Neely.

This week on the podcast I read and talked about Rodney A. Brown's Typescenes. Links below to the poet's book, website and accompanying performance. https://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/typescenes https://typescenes.com/ https://typescenes.com/%20immediate-dances-score-3/ Next week I'm reading one book by Julius Nyerere and one book about Julius Nyerere.

In this episode I discuss Kayla Rodney's 2019 poetry collection "Swimming Home." As the title suggests the poems are about water but also New Orleans, food, love, Blackness, pelicans and Greek mythology. A link to the collection: https://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/swimming-home Next week I'm reading "Typescenes" by Rodney A. Brown: https://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/typesce...

Today on the podcast I am discussing Nikki Dolson's 2020 book, a collection of short stories, "Love and Other Criminal Behavior." Here's a link to the book/website: https://www.nikkidolson.com/ Next week I'm going to be reading two books from Unlikely Stories Press. If you want to support an indie press and follow along next week there are links below: https://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-book...

Today on the podcast I am discussing bell hook's 2004 book about Black masculinity, "We Real Cool." Here's a link to the poem which inspired the title of the book: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/28112/we-real-cool

A discussion of Jesmyn Ward's 2017 novel "Sing, Unburied, Sing."