Podcast appearances and mentions of Salamishah Tillet

The Pulitzer on the Road podcast is back for season two! What does it take to win a Pulitzer Prize? In each episode, we'll hear winners in conversation with one another, sharing stories behind their prize-winning work. This packed season features conversations between historians Vladimir Kara-Murza and Anne Applebaum, novelists Jayne Anne Phillips and Viet Thanh Nguyen, playwrights Sanaz Toossi and Lynn Nottage, critics Justin Chang and Joe Morgenstern, biographer Jonathan Eig and journalist Yohance Lacour, investigative reporter Hannah Dreier and photo-journalists Greg Bull and Ivan Valencia, and critic Salamishah Tillet talking with journalists Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler. The first episode is out now! Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Pulitzer on the Road podcast is back for season two! What does it take to win a Pulitzer Prize? In each episode, we'll hear winners in conversation with one another, sharing stories behind their prize-winning work. This packed season features conversations between historians Vladimir Kara-Murza and Anne Applebaum, novelists Jayne Anne Phillips and Viet Thanh Nguyen, playwrights Sanaz Toossi and Lynn Nottage, critics Justin Chang and Joe Morgenstern, biographer Jonathan Eig and journalist Yohance Lacour, investigative reporter Hannah Dreier and photo-journalists Greg Bull and Ivan Valencia, and critic Salamishah Tillet talking with journalists Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The National Mall is a great canvas, in part because of all the history embedded there. It's been a place of protest, celebration and mourning. It also hosts some spectacular monuments. But critic Salamishah Tillet says there is a lot of history missing from the Mall as a commemorative space, like desegregation and the displacement of Indigenous people. Kim speaks with Salamishah about the ‘Beyond Granite' exhibition she co-curated on the Mall, and also with Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, the artist who created the largest portrait ever to go on display there. It was a six-acre composite portrait of several anonymous young men who had one thing in common: They all identified themselves as Americans. See the artwork we discussed: Out Of Many, One, by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada Of Thee We Sing, by vanessa german The Soil You See…, by Wendy Red Star America's Playground: DC, by Derrick Adams

These fancy things will never come in between you and this brand new episode of Go Fact Yourself!In this episode…Guests:Yakov Smirnoff is an iconic comedian, who made a name for himself after making Johnny Carson laugh on “The Tonight Show.” He'll explain how he had to fight for the chance to be on the show and how he learned to make art in the face of tragedy.Salamishah Tillet is a scholar, activist, curator, and writer, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her work in The New York Times. She'll tell us about what it was like to keep that honor a secret – even from her friends and family.Areas of Expertise:Salamishah: The Nadal/Federer tennis rivalry, the Donovan McNabb era of the Philadelphia Eagles, and Beyoncé/Rihanna.Yakov: The Canary Islands, the science of love, and the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love.What's the Difference:Make Some NoiseWhat is the difference between sound editing and sound mixing?What is the difference between a yell and a shout?Experts:Kuk Harrell and Tricky Stewart: Songwriters, producers and executives, whose multiple Grammy awards include hit songs with Beyoncé and Rihanna.Glenn Ficarra and John Requa: Writer, producers, and directors of many TV shows and films, including Crazy, Stupid, Love.Hosts:J. Keith van StraatenHelen HongCredits:Theme Song by Jonathan Green.Guest Live Show Engineer is Jeremy Beavers.Maximum Fun's Senior Producer is Laura Swisher.Associate Producer and Editor is Julian Burrell.Seeing our next live-audience show in Los Angelesby YOU!

Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates is the current artist-in-residence at The Apollo and is curating the festival [at] The Intersection, running from October 6-8, a series of performances and panel discussions with cultural figures like Jordan E. Cooper, Bisa Butler and Salamishah Tillet. We preview the festival with Coates and speak more about his relationship with The Apollo. And, during Banned Books Week, we also speak to him about recent attempts to remove his book Between the World and Me from schools in South Carolina, Texas, and other states.

Episode No. 617 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist vanessa german.   german is one of six artists featured in "Beyond Granite," a series of installations on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The exhibition, which was curated by Paul Farber and Salamishah Tillet for Monument Lab, is on view through September 18, 2024. german's Of Thee We Sing (2023) considers Marian Anderson's 1939 performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial (near which german's work is installed). Two other artists included in the exhibition have been featured on The MAN Podcast: Tiffany Chung and Wendy Red Star.  Instagram: vanessa german, Tyler Green.

For readers, a book's meaning can change with every encounter, depending on the circumstances and experiences they bring to it each time. On this week's podcast, Gilbert Cruz talks to Salamishah Tillet, a Pulitzer-winning contributing critic at large for The Times, about her abiding love for Toni Morrison's novel “Beloved” — in which a mother chooses to kill her own daughter rather than let her live in slavery — and about the ways that Tillet's personal experiences have affected her view of the book.“I was sexually assaulted on a study abroad program in Kenya.” Tillet says. “And when I came back to the United States, I entered an experimental program that helped people who were sexual assault survivors, who were suffering from PTSD. Part of the process was like, you had to tell your story over and over again, because the idea was that the memory of the trauma is almost as visceral as the moment of the trauma. And so … looking at what Morrison does in her novel, she's dealing with trauma and she's moving, going back and forth in time. So I actually experienced this on a personal level.”We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.

We receive a mysterious micro-cassette containing a 20-year-old voicemail message from Sylvester Stallone. It allows us to tap into the mind of the man himself — uncovering why he created Rocky and what elements of Philadelphia he used to build the world around him. We meet possibly the biggest Rocky fan ever. Then, from the top of the Art Museum steps, we explore what the Rocky statue can teach us about the future of our monuments. Show Notes NPR interviews Michael Vitez and Tom Gralish, authors of Rocky Stories. Rocky Stories, by Michael Vitez and Tom Gralish. The documentary about Mike Kunda, The Pretender. Kunda's podcast, The Rocky Files. Kunda's Rocky Tours in Philly. Kirk Savage, Tangled Histories blog. Salamishah Tillet and Paul Farber, National Mall monuments exhibition. Rocky's 40th anniversary documentary.

On today's episode we discuss, The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet ******This episode contains spoilers. ***** Summary Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker's epistolary novel, showing how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist of the time. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated film and a hit Broadway musical. Through interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, and others, as well as archival research, Tillet studies Walker's life and the origins of her subjects, including violence, sexuality, gender, and politics. Reading The Color Purple at age 15 was a groundbreaking experience for Tillet. It continues to resonate with her - as a sexual-violence survivor, as a teacher of the novel, and as an accomplished academic. Provocative and personal, In Search of the Color Purple is a bold work from an important public intellectual. Stay connected with us! Follow us on Instagram: https://msha.ke/ebonymusingspodcast/ Book Shop: bookshop.org/shop/ebonymusingspodcast Contact: ebonymusingspodcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ebonymusingspodcast/support

R. Kelly returns to the courtroom to stand trial for federal child pornography charges. Earlier this year, the R&B singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex-trafficking. Reset digs into the trial and how it fits into a larger conversation around gender-based violence with Salamishah Tillet, co-founder of A Long Walk Home.

A deep dive on “Renaissance,” her relationship to queer music communities and her framing of authorship. Guests: Joe Coscarelli, Wesley Morris, Jon Pareles and Salamishah Tillet.

Sisters can either be torn apart or drawn together due to sexual violence. Rutgers professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Salamishah Tillet and her sister, artist and curator Scheherazade Tillet, drew together after Salamishah shared her rape story. Together they co-founded "A Long Walk Home" to help Black women and girls share their own stories of shame, dysmorphia, injustice, recognizing trigger issues, survival, managing memories, finding community, and locating resources for recovering.   Hosts: Claire Kaplan and Katie Koestner Editor: Craig Stanton Producer: Emily Wang

On this final episode of Rock Steady, our host, Fran Bartkowski, talks with Express Newark Director, Salamishah Tillet, just awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in The New York Times. Salamishah discusses her very deep roots and love for Newark and how the city is intrinsic to her identity. She tells of how reading Amiri Baraka in college was just one of many threads that kept her connected to the city of Newark, and recounts how the first time she entered the Hahne's Building and Express Newark it was "love at hello."

WBGO Journal host Doug Doyle chats with Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience's Jack Tchen and Salamishah Tillet, as well with Marion Thompson Wright Reader author and acclaimed historian Graham Russell Gao Hodges

On episode one of season 4 of Rock Steady, our host, Dr. Fran Bartkowski, talks with Shine Portrait Studio Artist-In-Residence Scheherazade Tillet. Scheherazade Tillet is a photographer, youth organizer, and an art therapist. Her art and activism have been featured in the New York Times, Teen Vogue, The Chicago Tribune, on MSNBC and NPR; and she currently has an exhibition at PROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE in Newark, called "Black Girl Play." We learn about the Black Girlhood Altar project that has taken root in many cities, and was borne out of working through her sister's sexual assault in photographs. Fran and Scheherazade also discuss the many outcomes of this creative connection between herself and her sister, and their familial roots in Newark. Salamishah Tillet, her sister, is the current Director of Express Newark and she will be our guest on the final episode of Rock Steady in the coming weeks.

The 1991 Thomas hearings felt like a catalyst for change: Harassment reports spiked. “The Year of the Woman” brought women to Congress. And...then what happened? In our final episode, hosts Dr. Salamishah Tillet and Cindi Leive hold our courts, newsrooms and culture up to the light to see how much progress we've actually made on issues like harassment and assault. These are stories that'll change how you think: Tarana Burke, ‘me.too' founder, discusses what we owe survivors; legal advocate Fatima Goss Graves assesses some startling holes in the law; and journalist Irin Carmon, who reported on Charlie Rose's sexual abuse, asks why we still value men's reputations more than women's real lives. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 1991 Thomas hearings felt like a catalyst for change: Harassment reports spiked. “The Year of the Woman” brought women to Congress. And...then what happened? In our final episode, hosts Dr. Salamishah Tillet and Cindi Leive hold our courts, newsrooms and culture up to the light to see how much progress we've actually made on issues like harassment and assault. These are stories that'll change how you think: Tarana Burke, ‘me.too' founder, discusses what we owe survivors; legal advocate Fatima Goss Graves assesses some startling holes in the law; and journalist Irin Carmon, who reported on Charlie Rose's sexual abuse, asks why we still value men's reputations more than women's real lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On October 11th, 1991, Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill calmly told the Senate Judiciary Committee that her former boss, Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, had sexually harassed her years earlier. Thirty years later, we're still talking about that fateful weekend—and understanding its impact. In our opening episode, hosts Dr. Salamishah Tillet and Cindi Leive walk you through the anger, the intrigue and the surprises, with fresh perspective from lawyer Kimberlé Crenshaw, who served on Hill's legal team; journalist Jane Mayer, who helped expose the hearings' flaws; and actor Kerry Washington, who later immersed herself in the hearings for a role as Anita Hill. Thanks to our presenting sponsor Audible. Download a free trial at audible.com/anita. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On October 11th, 1991, Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill calmly told the Senate Judiciary Committee that her former boss, Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, had sexually harassed her years earlier. Thirty years later, we're still talking about that fateful weekend—and understanding its impact. In our opening episode, hosts Dr. Salamishah Tillet and Cindi Leive walk you through the anger, the intrigue and the surprises, with fresh perspective from lawyer Kimberlé Crenshaw, who served on Hill's legal team; journalist Jane Mayer, who helped expose the hearings' flaws; and actor Kerry Washington, who later immersed herself in the hearings for a role as Anita Hill. Thanks to our presenting sponsor Audible. Download a free trial at audible.com/anita. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we're speaking with the brilliant Salamishah Tillet to talk about her latest book, In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece, which is a deep dive into the history of Alice Walker's famous novel, as well as an examination of the cultural response to the book, and the movie and musical that followed. Listen to hear Salamishah talk about how the project came to her, the process of researching the beloved book's backstory, and what it was like to interview Alice Walker herself.In addition to being an author, Salamishah is also a professor at Rutgers University, a contributing critic-at-large for the New York Times, and is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, which is an organization focused on empowering young artists and activists to end violence against all girls and women.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Quick, give me the first answer to this question that comes to your head: What TV character is the archetype of the American middle class? Archie Bunker? Homer Simpson? Roseanne Conner? What about Cliff Huxtable? Dre Johnson? Or Jane Villanueva? On this episode, we dig into the huge, diverse swath of people that make up America's middle class. And we ask if it's possible to create one overarching policy that makes life better for them all — especially if you, yourself, only represent a small piece. Or may even have fallen out of touch entirely. GUESTS: Emily VanDerWerff, Vox; Anne Helen Petersen, Culture Study; Mari Faines, Physicians for Social Responsibility; Lori Latrice Martin, Louisiana State University ADDITIONAL READING: What TV Says About Race and Money, Salamishah Tillet, New York Times 10 Episodes That Show How Cheers Stayed Great for 11 Seasons, Emily VanDerWerff, AV Club America's Hollow Middle Class, Anne Helen Petersen, Vox America in Denial: How Race-Fair Policies Reinforce Racial Inequality in America, Lori Latrice Martin, SUNY Press

In conversation with Salamishah Tillet, the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing and author of In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman, a ''wonderfully audacious debut novel'' (Essence) that examines the nuances of race, gender, and history through the story of a family teaching sign language to a young chimpanzee. Greenidge was a finalist for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the 2017 Young Lions Fiction Award, and has earned fellowships from the Whiting Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. A contributor to the New York Times, Greenidge has also written for Glamour, The Wall Street Journal, and Vogue, among other publications. Named one of 2021's most anticipated books by many publications, Libertie follows the journey of a Reconstruction–era Black doctor searching for equality in place, profession, and her family. Books available through the Joseph Fox Bookshop (recorded 5/24/2021)

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Salamishah Tillet, author of In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece, which is published by our friends at Abrams Press.  Topics of conversation include Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 (and who should have won it before in the preceding years), Boonville, California, how perceptions of our favorite books change over time, whether or not you should meet your heroes, and much more.  Copies of In Search of the Color Purple can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

Salamishah Tillet on the power of Alice Walker's 1982 iconic novel, how its lessons continue to resonate today, and how she's found healing in its pages.

This week we're speaking with the brilliant Salamishah Tillet to talk about her latest book, In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece, which is a deep dive into the history of Alice Walker's famous novel, as well as an examination of the cultural response to the book, and the movie and musical that followed. Listen to hear Salamishah talk about how the project came to her, the process of researching the beloved book's backstory, and what it was like to interview Alice Walker herself.In addition to being an author, Salamishah is also a professor at Rutgers University, a contributing critic-at-large for the New York Times, and is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, which is an organization focused on empowering young artists and activists to end violence against all girls and women.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Salamishah Tillet, a contributing critic-at-large for The New York Times and the Henry Rutgers professor of African American studies and creative writing at Rutgers University, Newark, joins us to discuss her new book, In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece. The book explores Alice Walker’s seminal novel and its cultural impact through archival research and interviews with Walker herself, as well as other public figures, including Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones.

In conversation with Errin Haines, founding member and editor at large at The 19th, a new, nonprofit newsroom focused on the intersection of women, politics and policy. Salamishah Tillet is the author of Sites of Slavery, an examination of how contemporary African American intellectuals utilize the subject of slavery to challenge African American exclusion from the narratives of American history. She is a contributing critic-at-large for the New York Times, the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark, and cofounder of the Chicago-based arts nonprofit A Long Walk Home. An amalgam of literary history, memoir, cultural criticism, and biography, Tillet's latest book explores the impact of Alice Walker's 1982 novel and the circumstances of its creation. (recorded 1/26/2021)

Marc sits down with Rutgers professor and New York Times contributing critic at large, Salamishah Tillet to discuss her book; "In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece". The two discuss how she came to write about "The Color Purple", the cultural impact of the novel, and Salamishah lands in the hot seat for a game of "Buy It, Borrow It, Burn It."

Salamishah Tillet, a contributing critic-at-large for The New York Times and the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Newark, joins us to discuss the new hit Netflix series,  "Bridgerton," from what makes it so watchable, to its shortcomings.

Salamishah Tillet releases her new book, "In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of An American Masterpiece", where she takes a deeper look into Alice Walker's classic "The Color Purple".

In this special final episode of HBO’s Between The World And Me Podcast, we hear from writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, director Kamilah Forbes, producer, Alisa Payne, scholar Dr. Salamishah Tillet, as well as conversations with the communities from The Apollo Theater (Deirdre Hollman, Rich Blint, Abimbola Kai Lewis, Kai Green), The Kennedy Center (Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Alicia Garza, Tony Lewis, Jason Wallace), and the Schwarzman Center at Yale University and Howard University (Daphne Brooks, Natalie Hopkinson, Jason Moran) to unpack HBO’s Between The World And Me, its literary legacy, and its impact today. Hosted by Susan Kelechi Watson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode, we bid a bittersweet farewell to our first recording studio. We also chat about a handful of virtual literary events including a joint jaunt via The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s literary festival. The event was titled Audre Lorde and Political Warfare and featured Roxane Gay, Mahogany L. Browne, Tracy K. Smith, and Salamishah Tillet. Chris began reading a memoir about wealth and Emily escaped into the world of Addie Larue.

We all love clothes, let's Remember Who Made Them. In episode 2 of this podcast, Swatee discusses fashion and racism with Aja Barber and Salamishah Tillet. Devi reads a poem by Wu Xia, a Chinese garment worker - demonstrating the connectedness of our fashion industry from the person who makes our clothes to the person who buys and wears them.Find our guestsAja Barber: @ajabarber/Salamishah Tillet: @salamishahFind us on Patreon: RememberwhomadethemFind us on Instagram: @rememberwhomadethem/Get in touch: hello@rememberwhomadethem.comResources Aja Barber’s post on brand accountability: https://bit.ly/30JQrMeSalamishah for the New York Times on fashion and racism: https://nyti.ms/33K3cIDHow to Fix the Fashion Industry’s Racism by Minh-Ha T. Pham: https://bit.ly/3fM0UepMore on the group in Guatemala references, AFEDES: https://bit.ly/30JrY9Lhttps://bit.ly/30GwA0p North American Free Trade Agreement: https://bit.ly/2PIEGPGWorld Trade Organisation: wto.orgPodcast artwork by: @judith_p.raynaultMusic: Melisa Le Rue Life Is Beautiful produced by Colin EmmanuelDisclaimer: This is a non-profit campaign. Everyone involved is giving their time free of charge. This podcast is not sponsored and features no adverts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For a long time, Jackson and Jacob have been planning to talk about Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury as the first episode of Season Five. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, America is finally facing a racial reckoning which makes the discussion of plays like Fairview all the more important.    ... But, it is not lost on the boys of No Script that their perspective as two white men is a limited one. In this special episode, Jackson and Jacob have cut their typical hour long conversation into a half hour segment. As a No Script listener, you are strongly encouraged to use the remaining time to listen to or read an additional perspective on the play.    For your convenience, we have collected three stellar pieces that you can encounter.  1) An interview of Fairview actor Heather Alicia Simms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsBJ3osAuN4 2) An interview with playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury: https://www.pbs.org/video/jackie-sibblies-drury-discusses-her-play-fairview-j1ywq0/ 3) Theatre critics Jesse Green and Salamishah Tillet discussing their experience of Fairview.    Black Lives Matter. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans.  ------------------------------ We want to keep the conversation going! Have you read this play? Have you seen it? Comment and tell us your favorite themes, characters, plot points, etc. Did we get something wrong? Let us know. We'd love to hear from you. Find us on social media at:  Email: noscriptpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/No-Script-The-Podcast-1675491925872541/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noscriptpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/noscriptpodcast/ ------------------------------ Our theme song is “Upbeat Soda Pop” by Purple Planet Music. Credit as follows: Music: http://www.purple-planet.com ------------------------------ Thanks so much for listening! We’ll see you next week.

Lynchings are for you, not the person that died. This week, Dr. Venus explores the psychological warfare of lynching and how these performative acts are designed to use images, visuals, and rhetoric to keep us scared and quiet. She explains why you don’t have to share or engage with the image and the importance of protecting yourself emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Dr. Venus covers the historical context of lynching so that we can understand how it is still happening today, and how these attempts to silence us will NOT work. Not this time.    Key Takeaways:  [6:00] Dr. Venus brings us back to the Reconstruction in the early 1900s after the Civil War. White people started killing Black people both to make a point and also just as entertainment in the same way families would gather to watch a circus. The lynchings were made a public spectacle and were as brutal, gruesome, and horrendous as one could imagine.  [8:46] White people would make sure the newly freed slaves could see the lynchings. This would terrorize them and make them afraid to speak up, talk back, or even just try to leave. [10:56] The fact that the White Supremacists keep escalating their hateful behavior shows that they are threatened, and it gets worse before it gets better. We are watching history unfold and change can feel rough and tumultuous as it’s happening.  [11:33] Lynchings and public shows of power happen frequently today, along with the media claiming many of these Black men committed suicide when Dr. Venus believes that is just not the case. [15:00] Every time the White Supremacists publicly lynch, they lose votes. It makes people have to choose a side, and more people are becoming woke to the right side of history.  [21:38] You don’t have to look at, share, or engage with the images. These images are designed to have you relive the cultural trauma, and you don’t have to hurt yourself and play into their game to make you afraid. Practice self-love.  [24:10] Get yourself oriented with your spirit and source energy. You are a spiritual being having a human experience. Pray in the positive as if it’s already done. It’s another way of being revolutionary and taking care of yourself spiritually.  [30:55] Your vote is both for yourself, and all the people before you who couldn’t vote. When you understand that everyone who has died has given up their life for you, it gives you a different power.    Quotes: “The only reason they escalate is because their power is being challenged.”  “We’ve gone through enough. You aren’t going to scare me with a cross, a noose, or by trying to kill us and acting like it’s suicide.”  “We have too many people that bled for us to be intimidated. We aren’t going to back down. We aren’t going to be quiet.”    Mentioned:  Dr. Venus Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram  “Hot Mess Millionaire” Amazon Series  Free Gift When You Join The Truth Tribe The Black Woman Millionaire Hot Mess Edition  Join the conversation! Hot Mess Millionaire Facebook Group   Register to Vote Online https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/   Can A Felon Vote? – Felon voting rights by state by Robert Gomez https://felonyfriendlyjobs.org/can-a-felon-vote/   HISTORICAL REFERENCES   HISTORY OF LYNCHINGS https://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/   Public Spectacle Lynchings https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-public-spectacle-lynchings/   'They literally put them up to send a message': Idaho Black History Museum debuts graphic exhibit on lynching https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/black-history-museum-exhibit-is-a-g…   How white Americans used lynchings to terrorize and control black people https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/26/lynchings-memorial-us-south…   Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020 by Erik Ortiz https://www.aol.com/racial-violence-pandemic-red-summer-090452426.html   Endless Grief: The Spectacle of ‘Black Bodies in Pain’ by Salamishah Tillet https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/arts/elizabeth-alexander-george-floyd-vi…   CURRENT REFERENCES   At Least 2,000 More Black Americans Were Lynched Than Previously Reported by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman HuffPost June 17, 2020   https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lynchings-black-americans-reconstruction-eji…   Nooses hanging from trees in California investigated as a hate crime by Gino Spocchia The Independent June 18, 2020   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nooses-tree-california-ha…   Alabama Gov. Issues Statement in Response to NASCAR Noose Incident, Authorities to Investigate by Joelle Goldstein People June 22, 2020   https://people.com/sports/alabama-gov-responds-to-bubba-wallace-incident-fb…   Six Hangings and a Cop Shootout: Questions Surround ‘Disturbing’ Spate of Deaths by Pilar Melendez The Daily Beast Jun. 18, 2020   https://www.thedailybeast.com/spate-of-hanging-suicides-and-a-police-shooto…   ‘These Are Not Suicides’: Series Of Suspected Lynchings Come As Nation Protests Racism. One man's family believes their loved one's death is suspicious by Royce Dunmore News One June 16, 2020   https://newsone.com/3960596/suspected-lynchings-come-as-nation-protests-rac…   MOVIES   Harriet https://www.amazon.com/Harriet-Cynthia-Erivo/dp/B07Z89XNW4/ref=sr_1_1?dchil…   Queen & Slim https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B081TJM43H/ref=atv_wl_hom_c_unkc_1_7   The Uncomfortable Truth (for White People) https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B074ZR2YSC/ref=atv_wl_hom_c_unkc_1_6   Birth of A Movement https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B06XH67D8J/ref=atv_wl_hom_c_unkc_1_5   Selma https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00S0XCH8C/ref=atv_dp_b00_det_c_UTPs…   Birth of A Nation D.W. Griffith (1915) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Q7DGXS/ref=atv_feed_catalog Context: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/birth-of-a-nation-opens  

This episode features two brilliant scholar-artist-activists Salamishah Tillet and Grace Sanders Johnson. It was recorded live from the Free Library of Philadelphia as a part of the 2019 One Book One Philadelphia festival. Tillet and Sanders Johnson have been friends of Monument Lab since the beginning, actually before the beginning. Tillet as a mentor, Sanders Johnson as a graduate school classmate and writing partner of host Paul Farber. Together, they spoke about how they approach memory in their works, what kind of archives and artworks haunt and/or inspire them, and how history lives in the present. Tillet is Professor of African American and African Studies and Creative Writing, as well as Associate Director of the Clement Price Institute at Rutgers University–Newark. She is also the Founding Faculty Director of the New Arts Justice Initiative at Express Newark and Co-Founder of A Long Walk Home. Tillet regularly publishes as a critic in the New York Times. She is the author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination, and two forthcoming books on Nina Simone and the Color Purple. Sanders Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently completing her first book manuscript entitled, White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and the Archive in Early Twentieth Century Haiti. In addition to her study of gender and politics in Haiti, she is the founder of “Harriet’s Hike,” an ecological literacy program for girls and elder women in North Philadelphia. You can read the full transcript of every conversation we have on the podcast thanks to our partners at Rev.Com who are supporting us with on-demand transcripts all season long.

Robin on dread, resilience, where we are now, and where we're going. Guests: Special Election 2016 Analysis Roundtable, with Gloria Steinem, Maria Teresa Kumar, Eleanor Smeal, Salamishah Tillet—on what happened, and strategies for what's next. Maria Teresa Kumar: Eleanor Smeal: Gloria Steinem: Salamishah Tillet:

Dr. Salamishah Tillet, Professor at University of Pennsylvania, Co-Founder of "A Long Walk Home" and rape survivor sits down with Carol Jenkins to discuss sexual violence, the importance to "Say Her Name" and her thoughts on Beyonce's "Lemonade".

Herman Beavers, Salamishah Tillet, and Chris Mustazza join Al Filreis to discuss James Weldon Johnson's "O Southland!"

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Herman Beavers, Salamishah Tillet, Chris Mustazza.

Robin on ISIL's execution of Samira Salih Ali al-Nuaimi. Then, for the Day of the Girlchild: a roundtable of African American feminists—Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Salamishah Tillet, Kristie Dotson, Joanne N. Smith, and Danielle E. Gary—on what Obama's "My Brother's Keeper" initiative does to girls. Plus, Maya Nussbaum, the founder of Girls Write Now, and Taysha Clark, one of its stellar "graduates."

Herman Beavers, Salamishah Tillet, and Kathy Lou Schultz joined PoemTalk producer and host Al Filreis to talk about Claude McKay's widely anthologized sonnet, "If We Must Die" (1919)

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Salamishah Tillet, Herman Beavers, and Kathy Lou Schultz.

Robin celebrates Black History Month with guests Bonnie Thornton Dill on the intersections of race, gender, and class; Salamishah Tillet on violence against women and girls; Barbara Smith on black feminism and gun violence; and Johnnetta Cole on the glory of African-American women—plus Robin's commentary on the historic silencing of women in radio.

Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal discusses the crisis of Black Males and schooling, the de-skilling of the American Work-force and Social Media with Columbia University Professor Marc Lamont Hill. Neal is also joined by University of Pennsylvania Professor Salamishah Tillet as they discuss the career of Kanye West, the impact of Nicki Minaj and definitions of musical genius. →Marc Lamont Hill is Associate Professor of Education at Columbia University. A regular contributor to Fox News and CNN, Hill is the author of Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity. →Salamishah Tillet is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the forthcoming Peculiar Memories: Slavery and the Post-Civil Rights Imagination (Duke University Press). Tillet is also Founder of A Long Walk Home, a non-profit organization and a regular contributor to The Root.com.

Have you ever dealt with cat-calls, whistling, sexist and sexual epithets being yelled out the street and car windows, being grabbed or followed, while walking home? This conversation is our space to address street harassment openly. Author of Stop Street Harassment, Holly Kearl, and Salamishah Tillet, co-founder of A Long Walk Home, organization that educates and brings about social change through visual/performing arts and art therapy, join me to sound off on ways to make women safer in the streets. Email me with your questions and/or experiences at info@brnskn.com