Well then, welcome Niggas.

Welcome back to another episode of this particular program.

I am Curtis Mayfield.

And I am Ashley Banks.

This is the week.

Thanks for coming back.

Yes indeed it is.

Lots to go over.

Well, I won't waste too much of your time.

I'm sure you're super busy and have so many places to travel and like things do and people

to see and just go out in the world and run around in public with Adam Ascon.

So before we move into that kind of stuff, we're going to give Smoner and Black Excellence

and this week is going to Dana Kennedy.

Dana Kennedy is the first ever Black Vice President of Simon and Schuster.

She is the first ever.

Well, Black Senior Vice President of one of the biggest publishing houses in existence.

Not only that, but she want to pull its surprise for a series called How Races Lived in America.

And we'll be using her blackness, her beauty, her knowledge and wokeness to further diversifying

of the world of publishing.

I'm reading on because of them we can.

She said, I think the reason books still exist alongside journalism is that readers want

thorough, no, readers want thoughtful narratives that take a while to pull together in an authoritative

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