Ep. 217 Surviving in the Face of Death with David Dennis Jr.
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This episode we hear from cultural critic David Dennis, Jr - Senior Writer at ESPN’s Andscape and author of the new book The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride. We talk about the similarities and differences between Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement, the book that inspired David's storytelling, and what it means to survive when you're planning to die.
You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2022/06/01/ep-217-david-dennis-jr
The Stacks Book Club selection for June is White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson. We will discuss the book on June 29th with David Dennis Jr.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, the live in the stack store is on its last leg literally. We only have one show left |
| 0:08.5 | Join me in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 18th with three of my favorite ever podcast guests and friends of this show |
| 0:16.2 | We are gonna be joined by Rachel Lindsey. Yes, that Rachel Lindsey the first black bachelor at also |
| 0:22.2 | She is an author a podcaster a TV host and a wonderful human being |
| 0:26.4 | We're gonna be joined by Sam Sanders podcast host journalist and I think arguably the cultural critic of our time and |
| 0:33.7 | The wonderful hilarious and super duper smart Chelsea Devantes who is an any nominated TV writer, comedian director and of course the host of |
| 0:42.6 | Glamrs trash formerly known as the celebrity book club podcast |
| 0:46.6 | We are going to have a blast bringing this tour to a close and not to mention that our friends from reparations book club |
| 0:52.6 | One of my favorite bookstores here in L.A. is curating a pop-up bookshop of our dreams |
| 0:57.7 | It's not too late to get your tickets head to the stacks podcast dot com slash tour before they sell out |
| 1:14.5 | Welcome to the stacks a podcast about books and the people who read them |
| 1:17.5 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today we welcome David Dennis Jr |
| 1:21.3 | He is a senior writer at ESPN's and scape and a cultural critic who is named one of the roots 100 most influential African Americans in 2020 |
| 1:30.0 | I sat down to speak with him about his new book the movement made us a father a son and the legacy of a freedom ride |
| 1:36.5 | It's a blend of oral history and memoir telling the story of his father David Dennis Sr |
| 1:41.3 | And his role as an organizer in the 1960s civil rights movement as a freedom writer |
| 1:46.1 | Part of the leadership of core and cofo and a young man confronting his own mortality |
| 1:51.7 | Quick reminder everything we talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes |
| 1:57.7 | The stacks book club pick for June is white Negroes when cornrows were invoked and other thoughts on cultural appropriation by Lauren Michelle Jackson |
| 2:05.9 | We will be discussing the book on Wednesday June 29th with David Dennis Jr |
| 2:10.9 | Listen the stacks is a completely independent podcast made possible only by the support of our listeners |
| 2:16.5 | I cannot stress this enough |
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