Latest Blackmarketreads Podcast Episodes
Episode 83 -Linda Villarosa, UNDER THE SKIN: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America
Black Market Reads - March 25, 2024 17:38 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this inaugural episode of Black Market Reads: On Health, Lissa Jones introduces her series co-host Bukata Hayes, Vice President and Chief Equity Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. Together they welcome their guest Linda Villarosa, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and contributor to the...
Episode 82 - Rose McGee, Can't Nobody Make a Sweet Potato Pie Like Our Mama
Black Market Reads - March 12, 2024 00:41 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode Lissa welcomes co-host Bukata Hayes as they explore the power of storytelling and the nourishment of soulful food with author Rose McGee. ROSE MCGEE, founder of Sweet Potato Comfort Pie, travels across the United States to deliver pies and nurture relationships. She was featu...
Episode 81- Dr.Keith Mayes, The Unteachables
Black Market Reads - February 28, 2024 16:22 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHow special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools The Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school...
Episode 80 - Seph Rodney, The Personalization of the Museum Visit
Black Market Reads - February 13, 2024 16:06 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsMore About Seph Rodney Seph Rodney, PhD was born in Jamaica, and came of age in the Bronx, New York. He has an English degree from Long Island University, Brooklyn; a studio art MFA from the University of California, Irvine; and a PhD in museum studies from Birkbeck College, University of Lond...
Episode 79 - Rob Eschmann, When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age
Black Market Reads - February 07, 2024 23:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsFrom cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages and even comments from friends and family on social media, online communication exposes how racism operates in a world that pretends to be colorblind. In When the Hood Comes Off, Rob Eschmann blends rigorous...
Episode 78 - Tracy Clark, Fall (2nd in the Detective Harriet Foster series)
Black Market Reads - December 04, 2023 17:13 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo-time Sue Grafton Memorial Award-winner Tracy Clark introduces readers to FALL (Thomas & Mercer), a hard-boiled, page-turning thriller featuring Chicago Police Detective Harriet Foster, a Black woman in a male-dominated department who, with a new female partner, must stop a killer targeting...
Episode 77 - Jody Lulich, In the Company of Grace: A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing
Black Market Reads - October 17, 2023 18:17 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsRising to accept a prestigious award, Jody Lulich wondered what to say. Explain how he’d been attracted to veterinary medicine? Describe how caring for helpless, voiceless animals in his own shame and pain provided a lifeline, a chance to heal himself as well? Lulich tells his story in In the Co...
Episode 76 - Keith Ellison, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence
Black Market Reads - October 16, 2023 20:51 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode, presented with a live audience in partnership with Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Lissa talks with Minnesota Attorney General and author, Keith Ellison, about his latest book detailing the trial of Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd exploring why this book i...
Episode 75 - Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, Goddess of the Whole Self
Black Market Reads - September 22, 2023 19:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode, Lissa talks with author Sherrie Fernandez-Williams about her latest book, Goddess of the Whole Self, inspirations and origin stories. Go Deeper at www.BlackMarketReads.com
Episode 74 - Davu Underwood Seru, The Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature and Life
Black Market Reads - August 30, 2023 20:11 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode Lissa sits down with Davu Underwood Seru, the newly appointed Curator of the Archie Givens Sr. Collection of African American Literature and Life at the University of Minnesota. This Collection includes novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays, literary criticism, periodicals...
From the Archives: Rachel Howzell Hall
Black Market Reads - July 01, 2023 15:13 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this previously unpublished episode, Lissa talks with author Rachel Howzell Hall during her visit to the Loft's inaugural Wordplay Festival, exploring issues of crime and passion in her 2019 novel They All Fall Down (Forge Books). Rachel Howzell Hall is a noteworthy author from Los Angeles,...
Episode 73 - Santi Elijah Holley, An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
Black Market Reads - May 26, 2023 03:51 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode Lissa talks with Santi Elijah Holley about his book An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created. An enlightening history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement’s most prominent and f...
Episode 72 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, My People
Black Market Reads - April 15, 2023 19:54 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsCharlayne Hunter-Gault is an American civil rights activist, journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, CNN, and the Public Broadcasting Service. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African-American students to attend the University of Georgia. In this...
Episode 71 - Shaun M. Anderson, The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #Black Lives Matter
Black Market Reads - February 27, 2023 23:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode Lissa talks with Dr. Shaun M. Anderson, about his debut publication The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #Black Lives Matter (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023). The Black Athlete Revolt is the first book to take a historical and contemporary look at ho...
Episode 70 - Pearl Cleage, Blues for an Alabama Sky
Black Market Reads - February 21, 2023 21:33 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode Lissa talks with playwright and author Pearl Cleage about Blues for an Alabama Sky, her current work and references to inspirations and influencers including Langston Hughes, Stacey Abrams, Ntozake Shange, Viola Davis, audience development and more. Blues for an Alabama Sky is ...
BONUS EPISODE: Dr. Clarence Lusane returns
Black Market Reads - February 14, 2023 16:44 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn celebration of Black History Month, Lissa was invited by Books and Books to interview Dr. Clarence Lusane about his recent work. Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy, (City Lights 2023). Join us for this in depth conversation. Link...
Episode 69 - Wanda M. Morris, Anywhere You Run
Black Market Reads - November 25, 2022 16:42 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsDripping with Southern atmosphere and blistering suspense, Wanda M. Morris’ sophomore outing proves she is a “writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly). About ANYWHERE YOU RUN: It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the ...
Episode 68 - Dr. Clarence Lusane, Twenty Dollars and Change
Black Market Reads - November 10, 2022 13:13 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn Twenty Dollars and Change, Lusane offers a searing examination of what the fight to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill reveals about race, class, and social justice in America today. Lusane gives voice to the millions of Americans who mobilized for the “Tub...
Episode 67 - Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly
Black Market Reads - August 28, 2022 16:31 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsReminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times—a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in whi...
Episode 66 - Lynn Nottage, Sweat
Black Market Reads - August 15, 2022 20:22 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode Lynn Nottage speaks with BMR Host, Lissa Jones during the run of her play Sweat, performed at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter. She is the first, and remains the only, woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice. Her p...
Episode 65 -Kristin Henning, The Rage of Innocence
Black Market Reads - August 06, 2022 00:53 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKristin Henning is a nationally recognized legal scholar and activist in juvenile justice reform. As the Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown, she advocates for reform in the juvenile and criminal legal systems to fight the criminalizati...
Episode 64 -Andrea Jenkins, The T is Not Silent
Black Market Reads - May 18, 2022 23:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsAndrea Jenkins is the first Black transgender woman to be elected to public office in the United States. She was elected to the Minneapolis City Council with 73% of the vote. She is a poet, and an artist as well as a public official. Andrea is the author of the poetry collection The T is Not S...
Special Edition: Race to Write: Black Authors on America's Racial Reckoning
Black Market Reads - February 15, 2022 17:56 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode, the tables turn and Lissa Jones is in the spotlight. Lissa joins Dr. Vanessa Weaver, host of Workin' It Out Podcast to discuss the role of Black authors and literature in the current racial reckoning in her hometown of Minneapolis and across the country. In this Episode The ...
Episode 63 - Wanda M. Morris, All Her Little Secrets
Black Market Reads - January 24, 2022 20:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings“Every lie you tell, every secret you keep, is a fragile little thing that must be protected and accounted for…” In this episode Lissa talks with author Wanda M. Morris about her crime thriller, debut novel, All Her Little Secrets Morris is a corporate attorney who has worked in the legal dep...
Special Edition: Team Up for Health Equity with Bukata Hayes
Black Market Reads - December 13, 2021 17:24 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this Special Edition of Black Market Reads, in a live production at the Capri Theater, Lissa Jones sits down with Bukata Hayes to talk about the book he co-authored with Stacy Wells, and then hear from a panel of representatives Nneka Sederstrom/Chief Health Equity Officer Hennepin Health Care...
Team Up for Health Equity with Bukata Hayes
Black Market Reads - December 13, 2021 17:24 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this Special Edition of Black Market Reads, in a live production at the Capri Theater, Lissa Jones sits down with Bukata Hayes to talk about the book he co-authored with Stacy Wells, and then hear from a panel of representatives Nneka Sederstrom/Chief Health Equity Officer Hennepin Health Car...
Episode 62 - Jayne Allen
Black Market Reads - October 14, 2021 17:04 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsBlack Girls Must Die Exhausted Like the lead character featured in her new novel Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, our guest today knows all about living life as a successful African American woman and self-proclaimed "serial entrepreneur." This Harvard Law grad is a popular speaker, thoug...
Episode 61 - Tananarive Due on Black Horror and The Between
Black Market Reads - October 01, 2021 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsLissa speaks with Queen of Black Horror Tananarive Due on the re-release of her 1995 debut novel The Between. Due is a leading voice in Black speculative fiction, and teaches about Black horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is also the award-winning author of numerous books and executive produce...
Episode 60 - LaTanya McQueen
Black Market Reads - October 01, 2021 00:42 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this episode, we hear from LaTanya McQueen about her debut novel, When the Reckoning Comes which tells the story of Mira, a young Black woman, who travel's home to attend the plantation wedding of a childhood friend and is forced to contend with the traumas of her own childhood - and the hist...
Episode 59 - Resmaa Menakem
Black Market Reads - August 25, 2021 16:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOn this episode, Lissa sits down with Resmaa Menakem, the New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Resmaa is a therapist, trauma specialist, and the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions a leadership cons...
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