Podcast appearances and mentions of Bridgett M Davis

Bridgett M. Davis joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about the effect of trauma and weathering on Black lives, the unique bond between sisters, showing relationships in action and dialogue, homing in on a throughline, giving our books and writing the space they need,finding patterns and switching lenses, exploring varying lived experiences within family structures, shedding light on Lupus, the physiological effects of systemic racism, Black maternal mortality, moments of heartbreak, asking important narrative questions early on, the letters her sister wrote to her, and her new memoir Love, Rita.   Also in this episode: -birth order -getting a book optioned or film -shifting points of view   Books mentioned in this episode: -The Situations and the Story by Vivian Gornick -Inventing the Truth by William Zisner -The Yellow House by Sarah  -Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway -The Invisible Kingdom by Megan O'Rourke -Fairy Land by Alisha Abbott -Gather Me by Glory Adams   Bridgett M. Davis (pronounced Brih-jet) is the author of the memoir, Love, Rita, published by Harper Books in spring 2025.Her first memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life In The Detroit Numbers, was a New York Times Editors' Choice, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, NBC News and Parade Magazine, and featured as a clue on the quiz show Jeopardy! The upcoming film adaptation will be produced by Plan B Entertainment and released by Searchlight Pictures. She is author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow, named a Best Book of 2014 by The San Francisco Chronicle, and Shifting Through Neutral, shortlisted for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award. Davis is also writer/director of the 1996 award-winning feature film Naked Acts, newly restored and released to critical acclaim, screening in theaters across the US and globally and now available on DVD, Blu Ray and select streaming services. Davis is Professor Emerita in the journalism department at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she has taught creative, narrative and film writing. Her essays have appeared most recently in The New York Times, the LA Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia Journalism School, she lives in Brooklyn with her family. Visit her website at www.bridgettdavis.com. Connect with Bridgett: Website: bridgettdavis.com Facebook: bridgettdavis Bluesky: bridgettmdavis.bsky.social IG: https://www.instagram.com/bridgett_d substack: bridgettmdavis.substack.com Links for book purchase: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/love-rita-bridgett-m-davis?variant=43263953174562 Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-rita-a-sister-s-story-bridgett-m-davis/21696108   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social   Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

Film Forum's Director Sonya Chung talks with filmmaker, novelist, and memoirist Bridgett M. Davis on the occasion of the restoration and release of her 1996 film NAKED ACTS — which will screen at FF on Thursday, June 6 at 7:00. Davis shares her influences and inspirations, including Julie Dash and Kathleen Collins, her passion for storytelling in multiple genres, and her return to filmmaking after 30 years.

Frank starts the show talking about a Monmouth poll about people's view on Biden or Trump being the 2024 candidate and talks about the third party. After, he discusses the Los Angeles gym owner being asked to remove her Kobe Bryant mural and Jeffrey Lyons, the world's greatest film critic and an author, whose latest book is “Hemingway and Me: Letters, Anecdotes, and Memories of a Life-Changing Friendship” joins Frank to talk his book and give a World Series preview. Next, Frank talks about adults sleeping with their childhood stuffed animal or baby blanket and also talks to Bridgett M. Davis, author of multiple books, Director of an award winning feature film, a Professor at Baruch College and the author of “The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers”about her book. Later, Frank talks about MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer settling his dispute with a woman in a sexual assault case and Brian Kilmeade, New York Times best-selling author, co-host of Fox and Friends on Fox News and a radio talk show host heard every morning from 10am-Noon on 77WABC rounds out the show with Frank to discuss the news of the day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank Morano interviews Bridgett M. Davis, author of multiple books, Director of an award winning feature film, a Professor at Baruch College and the author of “The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers”about her book.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moderated by Ester Allen, the Spring 2023 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program invites Sam Pollard, who is not only Emmy award-winning filmmaker but also a Baruch alum in 1973.  The program is introduced Bridgett M. Davis, also a filmmaker and novelist. Mr. Pollard will be teaching a class on screenwriting and documentary filmmaking. 

Acclaimed novelist and memoirist Bridgett M. Davis talks with music writer and educator Maureen Mahon about Mahon's book Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll and the challenges of Black female rule breakers and trendsetters.  The two explore how thinking differently about genre allows us to think about music and musicians differently, and the fascinating stories and influence of women like Big Mama Thornton, Betty Davis, Marsha Hunt, the Shirelles, and others unfairly ignored in rock history. As Mahon says to her own Black teen rock-loving self, "There are so many different ways to be an African American woman." (Recorded November 11, 2020)

In this week’s episode, we feature an archival interview from the City University of New York’s Leon Levy Center for Biography. Author Bridgett M. Davis was interviewed by author and […]

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 8, 2018, in collaboration with Feminist Press, with Chaya Babu (Go Home!), YZ Chin (Though I Get Home), and Bridgett Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis). About the Readers: CHAYA BABU is a Brooklyn-based writer, journalist, educator, and healer. Her work has been featured in The Margins, Open City, BuzzFeed, CNN, The Feminist Wire, Huffington Post, and more. She is completing a creative writing MFA at Pratt, where her thesis manuscript focused on diaspora, loss, and the intergenerational trauma of migration and exile. Chaya contributed to the anthology Go Home!, published by Feminist Press in March 2018. YZ CHIN is the author of Though I Get Home (Feminist Press, 2018), premier winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She has also written two poetry chapbooks, out or forthcoming from Anomalous Press and dancing girl press. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York. She works by day as a software engineer, and writes by night. BRIDGETT M. DAVIS is the author of the forthcoming memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), and the novels Into the Go-Slow (Feminist Press, 2014) and Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2005). She is director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program and Professor of Journalism and Creative Writing at Baruch College, CUNY. * This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 8, 2018, in collaboration with Feminist Press, with Chaya Babu (Go Home!), YZ Chin (Though I Get Home), and Bridgett Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis). About the Readers: CHAYA BABU is a Brooklyn-based writer, journalist, educator, and healer. Her work has been featured in The Margins, Open City, BuzzFeed, CNN, The Feminist Wire, Huffington Post, and more. She is completing a creative writing MFA at Pratt, where her thesis manuscript focused on diaspora, loss, and the intergenerational trauma of migration and exile. Chaya contributed to the anthology Go Home!, published by Feminist Press in March 2018. YZ CHIN is the author of Though I Get Home (Feminist Press, 2018), premier winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She has also written two poetry chapbooks, out or forthcoming from Anomalous Press and dancing girl press. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York. She works by day as a software engineer, and writes by night. BRIDGETT M. DAVIS is the author of the forthcoming memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), and the novels Into the Go-Slow (Feminist Press, 2014) and Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2005). She is director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program and Professor of Journalism and Creative Writing at Baruch College, CUNY. * This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oyinkan Braithwaite discusses her smash hit debut My Sister the Serial Killer -- a short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel that encompasses both sibling rivalry and anti-patriarchal catharsis -- onstage with previous podcast guest Bridgett M. Davis. (Recorded at the Fort Greene store on August 5, 2019.) 

Bridgett M. Davis (http://bridgettdavis.com/)grew up in the high-stakes mix of Motown, motor-city unions, and racial tension that was Detroit in the 1960s and 70s, watching her mother, Fannie, run a neighborhood numbers game that provided for the family and the community. After leaving Detroit for New York City, she honed her craft as a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter, with her most recent work, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers (https://amzn.to/2ZMJ430), paying tribute to her mother’s ingenuity and care under world-shifting circumstances. Join us to hear Davis share her journey from the troubled city of her upbringing to award-winning author and professor, and the incredible through-line of compassion, generosity, and tangible acts of love that saw her through it.Check out our offerings & partners: “A Million Little Things”, Returns Thursday, September 26th , 9/8 central, after “Grey’s Anatomy”, on ABCBoll and Branch: Get $50 off your first set of sheets at BollAndBranch.com, and enter promo code GOODLIFEZapier: Right now through November, try Zapier free by going to our special link Zapier.com/GOODLIFE Coaches, Counselors, HR pros, Advisors, Leaders, & helping professionals - Become “Sparketype® Certified!” Learn how to tap the power of the Sparektypes to help others come alive in work and life.

Award-winning writer and filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis offers an homage to an extraordinary parent in her memoir The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers.  She discusses the book (and complicated mothers) with James Hannaham, author of the novel Delicious Foods. (Recorded at the Fort Greene bookstore on February 26, 2019.)

This week, Gayle and Nicole continue their discussion about fall books they're looking forward to, with a focus on debut authors. These books are all over the map, in terms of genre, format and subject matter!  Books discussed during this episode: https://amzn.to/2ZQ5MLr (Polite Society) by Mahesh Rao https://amzn.to/2ZOHanh (Machine) by Susan Steinberg https://amzn.to/2LujSZQ (The Water Dancer) by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://amzn.to/2PVSc5t (Diamond Doris) by Doris Payne https://amzn.to/2Q1FmD4 (The World According to Fannie Davis) by Bridgett M. Davis https://amzn.to/34xpT0B (Bloomland) by John Englehardt https://amzn.to/2LqbmMJ (Know My Name) by Chanel Miller (NYT's Article – https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/books/chanel-miller-brock-turner-assault-stanford.html?searchResultPosition=1 (You Know Emily Doe's Story. Now Learn Her Name.)) https://amzn.to/2N7OhQQ (Metropolitan Stories) by Christine Coulson https://amzn.to/2Loy1ZH (The World Doesn't Require You) by Rion Amilcar Scott https://amzn.to/2Q3TMlW (Wild Game) by Adrienne Brodeur https://amzn.to/32yE5EU (Citizen Outlaw) by Charles Barber https://amzn.to/32xXXb0 (Camgirl) by Isa Mazzei https://amzn.to/2NTYccC (White Negroes) by Lauren Michele Jackson https://amzn.to/2A1vQVy (The Secrets We Kept) by Lara Prescott https://amzn.to/2N5fGD2 (How We Fight For Our Lives) by Sayeed Jones https://amzn.to/2NNUlOa (Summerlings) by Lisa Howorth https://amzn.to/34BQFEY (In The Pleasure Groove) by John Taylor https://amzn.to/2Lmwq6P (Patsy) by Nicole Dennis-Benn *Books linked above are our affiliate links. There's no additional expense you, but if you make a purchase through us a small portion of that contributes to the costs associated with making our podcast. Thanks so much for listening and for your support! Please help support the podcast and take a few minutes to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-readerly-report/id1141898658?mt=2 (leave a review and/or rating) for the podcast on https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1141898658?i (iTunes), a commenton https://soundcloud.com/user-399446357 (Soundcloud) or interact wherever you listen to podcasts and talk about books.  Connect With Us We'd love to hear from you at any and all places that you love to talk about books. You can find us at the spaces below. Nicole Bonia: http://www.nicolebonia.com/ (Nicole's Website) | http://www.instagram.com/nicolebonia (Instagram) | https://twitter.com/nicolebonia (Twitter) |https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1248236-nicole-bonia (Goodreads) Gayle Weiswasser: http://everydayiwritethebookblog.com/ (Everyday I Write The Book Blog) | https://twitter.com/gweiswasser (Twitter) | https://www.facebook.com/everydayiwritethebook/ (Facebook)|https://www.instagram.com/gweiswasser/ (Instagram) | https://www.goodreads.com/gweiswasser (Goodreads) The Readerly Report: https://www.facebook.com/ReaderlyMag/ (Facebook) |http://www.instagram.com/readerlymagazine (Instagram) | https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReaderlyReport/ (Join Our Facebook Group) Feedback. We love it! If you have any questions or ideas for a podcast,  email us! Yo Support this podcast

Gayle and Nicole were waylaid by travel and illness last week, but they are now back in business! Today, they talk about new paperbacks out this summer, catch up on what they've been reading, and discuss their July book club pick, https://amzn.to/2K7SnWt (Trust Exercise) by Susan Choi. (The book club discussion begins around 42 minutes in, if you want to avoid spoilers.) https://amzn.to/2YBOLEi (Three Women) by Lisa Taddeo https://amzn.to/2yvwvh2 (The Year Of The Runaways) by Sunjeev Sahoda https://amzn.to/2yrc2Kv (The Travelers) by Regina Porter https://amzn.to/2YyQ4Uw (Black Is The Body) by Emily Bernard https://amzn.to/2GED7hD (The World According To Fannie Davis) by Bridgett M. Davis https://amzn.to/2MqFkRw (Everything Is Just Fine) by Brett Paesel (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/07/everything-is-just-fine-by-brett-paesel/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2GE11Kk (The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill) by Abbi Waxman https://amzn.to/2ynq287 (How Not To Die Alone) by Richard Roper https://amzn.to/2ynnWoL (Social Creature) by Tara Isabella Burton https://amzn.to/2GC8Tfu (How To Walk Away) by Katherine Center (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2018/07/how-to-walk-away-by-katherine-center/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2SX2sse (Things You Save In A Fire) by Katherine Center https://amzn.to/2GEEWLv (Give Me Your Hand) by Megan Abbott https://amzn.to/2Yrrh4T (A Double Life) by Flynn Berry https://amzn.to/2K8C4so (Vox) by Christina Dalcher (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2018/09/vox-by-christina-dalcher/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2Ox7kpw (Red Clocks) by Leni Zumas (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2018/11/red-clocks-by-leni-zumas/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/316aMZn (Baby Teeth) by Zoje Stage (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/04/baby-teeth-by-zoje-stage/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2YClZU1 (The Two Lila Bennetts) by Liz Fenton https://amzn.to/31azIzg (A Ladder To The Sky) by John Boyne https://amzn.to/2LPWNUh (Meet Me At The Museum) by Anne Youngson https://amzn.to/2STubdc (Virgil Wander) by Leif Enger https://amzn.to/2LVlyOz (My Sister, The Serial Killer) by Oyinkan Brathwaite https://amzn.to/2K7ugqT (The Witch Elm) by Tana French https://amzn.to/2LS4mK0 (The Incendiaries) by R. O. Kwon https://amzn.to/2K6ar3i (The Silence Of The Girls) by Pat Barker https://amzn.to/2YBUwSq (Here And Now And Then) by Mike Chen https://amzn.to/2SVn9Ve (Trust Exercise) by Susan Choi (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/07/trust-exercise-by-susan-choi/ (Gayle's review here)) *Books linked above are our affiliate links. There's no additional expense you, but if you make a purchase through us a small portion of that contributes to the costs associated with making our podcast. Thanks so much for listening and for your support! Support this podcast

In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother.A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" to provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie Davis became more than a numbers runner: she was a kind of Ulysses, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city.Bridgett M. Davis is Professor of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College, CUNY, where she teaches creative, film and narrative writing and is Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. A graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she is the director of the award-winning feature film Naked Acts, as well as the author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow and Shifting Through Neutral.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.Recorded On: Wednesday, April 10, 2019

In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother.A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" to provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie Davis became more than a numbers runner: she was a kind of Ulysses, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city.Bridgett M. Davis is Professor of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College, CUNY, where she teaches creative, film and narrative writing and is Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. A graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she is the director of the award-winning feature film Naked Acts, as well as the author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow and Shifting Through Neutral.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.

This week on Under the Radar with Callie Crossley – it's our pop-culture round table. Is #OscarsSoWhite still relevant? We deconstruct how this year's awards did — and did not — break the mold. We also discuss "Leaving Neverland," a documentary from HBO that revives questions about Michael Jackson as a child predator, and a new documentary about black roller skating culture. Guests: Rachel Rubin - Professor of American studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Michael Jeffries - Associate professor of American studies at Wellesley College. Later in the show… As a kid, author Bridgett M. Davis knew not to talk about what her mother did for a living. She knew not to reveal that her mother's business was "running the numbers," an illegal underground game of chance. She shares her mother's amazing story in her new memoir, "The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers." It's our March selection for Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club. Guest: Bridgett M. Davis - Novelist, essayist, teacher filmmaker and curator. Her latest book, "The World According to Fannie Davis" is available for purchase in stores and online.

Karen Taylor speaks with Bridgett M. Davis, Author of The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mothers Life in the Detroit Numbers. A memoir that dives into Davis's childhood and tells the powerful story of a mother that worked hard to make sure her children had the best of everything and who just happened to be a numbers runner in 1960's Detroit.

Bridgett M. Davis is the author of Into the Go-Slow, the acclaimed story of a young woman traveling from Detroit to Nigeria as she mourns the death of her sister, and Shifting Through Neutral, a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is a professor of journalism and the writing professions at Baruch College and Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program at CUNY. Davis's newest book is a tribute to her mother, a jill-of-all-trades bookie, banker, wife, and parent who bucked the ‘60s and ‘70s decay of Detroit to lead her family into prosperity. (recorded 1/29/2019)

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss We Cast a Shadow, Deep Creek, Notes on a Nervous Planet, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Flare Up by Shannon Stacey, and Doubleday, publishers of The Plotters by Un-su Kim. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: We Cast a Shadow: A Novel by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston The Falconer: A Novel by Dana Czapnik Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard 99 Percent Mine: A Novel by Sally Thorne Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig Devotions by Mary Oliver What we're reading: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams More books out this week: King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo Spin by Lamar Giles Come Find Me by Megan Miranda The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt Vigilance by Robert Jackson Bennett At the Wolf's Table: A Novel by Rosella Postorino and Leah Janeczko Ransacker (Berserker) by Emmy Laybourne The End of Loneliness: A Novel by Benedict Wells and Charlotte Collins Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Tonya Bolden I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck: An Everyman’s Guide to a Meaningful Life by John Kim House of Stone: A Novel by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Meena Meets Her Match by Karla Manternach and Rayner Alencar Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig WeirDo (WeirDo #1) by Anh Do The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation by Jodie Patterson The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis Reckoning of Fallen Gods: A Tale of the Coven by R.A. Salvatore The Plotters: A Novel by Un-su Kim The Cerulean by Amy Ewing The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff Golden Child: A Novel by Claire Adam Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber 41 Reasons I'm Staying In: A Celebration of Introverts by Hallie Heald The Pope: Francis, Benedict, and the Decision That Shook the World by Anthony McCarten Battlepug: The Compugdium by Mike Norton (Author, Artist), Allen Passalaqua (Artist), David Dunstan (Artist) Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib Some Girls Bind (Ya Verse) by Rory James

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OTG-AUGUST26-2016-MONO-EDIT.mp3 As Black August draws to a close, activists continue to mark the month by organizing, through education and other through acts of resistance. The Nat Turner Rebellion, which happened during this week 185 years ago, is in the news because of a soon-to-be released biopic about his life. A distinguished panel, Bridgett M. Davis, Kenneth Carroll and L.D. Crittenden, discusses the controversy surrounding the film, 'The Birth of a Nation' and the director, writer and lead actor Nate Parker. Also, we get an update on the Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement, including the fact that DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan have signed onto a list of governors opposing BDS. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, or BDS, targets Israel and institutions complicit in its oppression of Palestinians. Plus headlines on Black Lives Matter, protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline and oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and cultural happenings. Plus more headlines.

In the last episode of 2015, Jenn talks with creators of Bold As Love magazine & the Sundays @ Reading series Bridgett M. Davis (author of Into the Go-Slow, professor, and independent filmmaker) and Rob Fields (marketing/branding strategist) about how their respective experiences has helped them to bring out and promote more diverse voices in the literary and music establishment, building audience and recognition of POC voices, as well as what it takes nowadays to be a thriving artist while also recognizing you may also have to have business savvy. 

INTO THE GO-SLOW is a novel about sisters, the legacy of the Black Power Movement, and the troubled bond between African Americans and Africans.  It’s 1986, and twenty-one-year-old Angie is adrift in her hometown of Detroit. Her older sister, Ella, had disappeared in Lagos a decade earlier, and Angie decides to retrace her steps. Against a backdrop of Nigeria’s infamous go-slow—traffic as wild and surprising as a Fela lyric—Angie begins to unravel the mysteries of the past, and opens herself up to love and life after Ella. BRIDGETT M. DAVIS’s debut novel, Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad 2004), was a finalist for the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Davis is the books editor at Bold As Love Magazine, a black-culture website, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Essence, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Root.com, among other publications. She is a professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she is the director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in Residence Program, and she is the curator of the popular monthly Brooklyn reading series, Sundays @ . . .http://bridgettdavis.com/