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Code Switch

Black Kiss-tory

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.614.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Too often, Black history is portrayed as a story of struggle and suffering, completely devoid of joy. So we called up some romance novelists whose work focuses on Black history. They told us that no matter how hard the times, there has always been room for love.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just a heads up, this episode contains romantic content,

0:04.0

and a mild spoiler for Bridgerton, so please proceed with caution.

0:10.0

The End

0:20.0

I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji.

0:22.0

I cannot stop thinking of you.

0:24.0

I'm Karen Grigzby-Bates.

0:26.0

From the mornings you ease.

0:28.0

You quiet to the dreams you inhabit.

0:30.0

This is Code Switch from NPR.

0:34.0

I am yours, ethnic.

0:36.0

I have always been yours.

0:38.0

And what you just heard is Bridgerton,

0:42.0

currently Netflix most watch series produced by Shonda Rhimes.

0:48.0

Full disclosure, I am not one of the masses who watched Bridgerton over the holidays,

0:52.0

because when everyone is doing something I usually rebel and do the exact opposite,

0:56.0

so hello great pottery throwdown.

1:00.0

So Bates, remind me.

1:02.0

What was Bridgerton all about again?

1:04.0

Well, Shireen, it dropped on Christmas Day, which feels a long time ago,

1:08.0

and actually it wasn't so much.

1:10.0

And it's based on a popular set of books by Julia Quinn about England and the Regency Era.

1:16.0

And because it's Shonda Rhimes, who populates all of her series with people of color,

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