Daniel Black, DON'T CRY FOR ME: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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"To become a participant in a democracy, to become a participant in a country so that your citizenship is guaranteed, it's so absolutely, positively critical. Otherwise, you always see yourself as an outsider." Professor Dr. Daniel Black joins Zibby to talk about his latest novel, Don't Cry For Me, which he finished the very same day his father died. Daniel and Zibby discuss why Daniel wanted this novel to feature some under-discussed and challenging conversations about parenthood, and particularly how it pertains to Black men. Daniel also shares how his family's story inspired him to pursue his PhD, why it's important to let children grow up to be who they are, and what the sequel to this novel will look like.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:07.5	And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer.
0:12.7	Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature.
0:20.5	Comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love.
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0:28.5	You can find out more at zibbyowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.
0:34.3	And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything.
0:38.9	Enjoy the show.
0:40.8	Dr. Daniel Black is the author of Don't Cry for Me.
0:44.3	He is a professor of African American Studies at Clark Atlanta University and a native of Kansas City, Kansas.
0:51.1	Yet he spent the majority of his childhood years in Blackwell, Arkansas.
0:54.5	He now aims to provide an example to young Americans of this importance of self-knowledge
0:59.1	and communal commitment. He is the author of, They Tell Me of a Home and the Sacred Place,
1:04.7	in addition to Don't Cry for Me. Welcome, Daniel. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't
1:09.0	have time to read books to discuss Don't Cry for Me, a novel. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss. Don't cry for me, a novel.
1:13.1	Thank you so much for having me. I'm glad to be here. As I was just saying, I read this all through my spring break with my kids and I will forever associate it now with this trip and that will never forget it. I was posting about it and people loved it. They're like, oh my gosh, this was the most beautiful book. I'm like, I know. I'm reading it. So anyway, thank you for the bringing
1:27.9	depth to the trip I took, depth and emotion and feeling and heart and soul and loss and all the
1:32.8	good things that your book did. So it was beautiful. I'm glad. Thank you so much. And I'm just glad that this book
1:39.5	is being read and being felt by so many, many, many, many people. It's, you know, it's this kind
1:45.3	of universal story of this dying man and his longing to be reconnected to his son. And it just shows
1:50.9	that, you know, all over the world in, in every place,
2:00.3	in every home, in every community, we struggle with what it means to parent. We struggle with what
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