92 episodes

Black Market Reads is a menu for Black literary consumption and all of its spin-offs. Featuring Black artists who love to read and write and engage in arts and culture.

PRODUCER: The Givens Foundation for African American Literature
PRODUCTION SERVICES: iDream.tv
MUSIC: Sarah White - Through People [M¥K Remix]

BMR is made possible through the generous support of our individual donors, Target Foundation, and the voters of Minnesota, through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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Black Market Reads is a menu for Black literary consumption and all of its spin-offs. Featuring Black artists who love to read and write and engage in arts and culture.

PRODUCER: The Givens Foundation for African American Literature
PRODUCTION SERVICES: iDream.tv
MUSIC: Sarah White - Through People [M¥K Remix]

BMR is made possible through the generous support of our individual donors, Target Foundation, and the voters of Minnesota, through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

    Episode 86 - Dr. Rachel Hardeman, Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity (CARHE)

    Episode 86 - Dr. Rachel Hardeman, Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity (CARHE)

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         In this episode of Black Market Reads: On Health, Lissa and Bukata talk with Dr. Rachel Hardeman. Dr. Rachel Hardeman is a Tenured Professor & Researcher, Speaker & Thought Leader, Educator & Author on all things health equity. As the Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health & Racial Equity, Dr. Hardeman’s goal is to manifest racial justice so that all people, especially Black women and girls, can live their full greatness and glory. As Founding Director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity (CARHE, pronounced "care") at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Hardeman’s work is centered on the notion that the work of antiracism is fueled by love. She was named as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2024.
         Learn more in the GO DEEPER section of our website: https://blackmarketreads.com/
     

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

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

    This episode of Black Market Reads was recorded before a live audience at the historic Capri Theater in North Minneapolis.
    Lissa talks with author Karen Felicia Nance about her latest book Ethel Ray: Living in the White, Gray and Black, the story of her grandmother's contributions to Civil Rights.
    Ethel Ray’s world was a white world. She was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where her family lived a life filled with marginalization, prejudice, and racism. She experienced constant comparison to whiteness—a place that held no space for her Black Southern father, William Henry Ray, or her white Swedish mother, Inga Ray.
    Ethel Ray: Living in the White, Gray, and Black is a biography and coming-of-age story of Ethel and of her family’s life before, during, and after the horrific lynching of three young Black circus workers—Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie—on June 15, 1920.
    Learn more, visit: www.BlackMarketReads.com for GO DEEPER content

    Black Market Reads is produced by The Givens Foundation for African American Literature in partnership with iDream.TV. Black Market Reads is made possible through the generous support of our individual donors and the voters of Minnesota, through the Minnesota State Arts Board with support from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

     

    • 46 min
    Episode 84 -Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

    Episode 84 -Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

    In this episode Lissa and Bukata talk with Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her latest book Take My Hand. As a pre-eminent chronicler of American historical life, Dolen talks about her research, her passion for uplifting the authentic voice and the responsibility we have for the fallout of our good deeds.
    Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. 
    Black Market Reads is produced by The Givens Foundation for African-American Literature in partnership with iDream.tv. 
    Funding for Black Market Reads: On Health is provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, as part of Blue Cross’ long-term commitment to improving the health of Minnesota communities and ensuring that all people have opportunities to live the healthiest lives possible.
     

    • 38 min
    Linda Villarosa, UNDER THE SKIN: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America

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

    In 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 NYT 1619 Project.

    There’s an alarming saying in medical circles that Black people in the US “live sicker and die quicker.” Linda Villarosa, explores this phenomenon in her book UNDER THE SKIN: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America. Villarosa finds that erroneous beliefs about Black bodies, dating from the time of enslavement, continue to influence medical practices today. Coping with the daily stress of racism ages Black people prematurely. And racist beliefs held by doctors and other medical professionals often keep Black people from getting the care they need.
    Black Market Reads is produced by the Givens Foundation for African-American Literature in partnership with iDream.tv. Funding for this series is provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, as part of Blue Cross’ long-term commitment to improving the health of Minnesota communities and ensuring that all people have opportunities to live the healthiest lives possible.
    Series artwork created by Ta-coumba T. Aiken

     

    • 33 min
    Rose McGee, Can't Nobody Make a SweetPotato Pie Like Our Mama

    Rose McGee, Can't Nobody Make a SweetPotato Pie Like Our Mama

    In 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 featured in the 2015 PBS documentary A Few Good
    Pie Places. After George Floyd’s murder in 2020, her caring
    community pie baking and delivery gained recognition from NBC Nightly News, Ms McGee
    resides in Golden Valley, MiN, where she was named
    “Citizen of the Year”.

    • 27 min
    Episode 81- Dr.Keith Mayes, The Unteachables

    Episode 81- Dr.Keith Mayes, The Unteachables

    How 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 system and public policy, it explores the discriminatory labeling of Black students, and how it indelibly contributed to special education disproportionality, to student discipline and push-out practices, and to the school-to-prison pipeline effect.
    Keith A. Mayes is associate professor of African American & African Studies and faculty affiliate in sociocultural studies in education at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African American Holiday Tradition.
    GO DEEPER www..BlackMarketReads.com

    • 40 min

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