Daniel Black, BLACK ON BLACK: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews acclaimed novelist, scholar, and repeat MDHTTRB guest Daniel Black about Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America, a piercing, vulnerable collection of essays about being black in America and the ongoing fight for change. Daniel reveals what inspired him to be so raw and vulnerable for this new project. He also talks about his journey to accepting and embracing his sexuality, his relationship with the church and God, and his thoughts on the Bible (which, he admits, he might just have to rewrite!). Zibby included Black on Black in her 2023 Most Anticipated Books of the Year, and it didn’t disappoint!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
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| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
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| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.5 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Daniel Black is the author of Black on Black on our resilience |
| 1:06.9 | and brilliance in America. And you might not expect it, given the heaviness of the topic, |
| 1:12.4 | but we had a lot of laughs in this conversation. Daniel is an author and professor of African-American |
| 1:18.1 | Studies at Clark Atlanta University. His books include The Coming, Perfect Peace, and They Tell Me of a |
| 1:23.4 | home. He is the winner of the Distinguished Writer Award from the Mid-Atlantic Writers Association and has been nominated for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, the Ernest J. Gaines Award, and the Georgia Award. He's also the author of Don't Cry for Me, which we talked about on this podcast another time. He was raised in Blackwell, Arkansas, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome, Daniel. Thank you so much for coming back for a second time on moms don't have time to read books, |
| 1:47.1 | this time to discuss Black on Black on Our Resilience and Brilliance in America. |
| 1:51.9 | Or maybe I should say Black on Black on Black, like five times because that's what it's |
| 1:54.6 | It's actually called Black on Black, Black, Black, Black and Black and Black. |
| 1:58.0 | That's right. |
| 1:58.8 | Black on Black on Black on Black on Black. |
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