Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music

when it's out of ice cream.

Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds.

On tonight's programme, an award-laden volume of poems,

which might be called timely,

if that wasn't to diminish the tragedy of the Charleston killings.

The award-winning citizen and American lyric, a volume about being black in a white world,

all the way from Serena Williams on a tennis court to the intercedental racism of daily life.

When a woman you work with calls you by the name of another woman you work with,

it is too much of a cliche not to laugh out loud with a friend beside you who says,

oh no, she didn't. Still, in the end, so what? Who cares? She had a 50-50 chance of getting it right. Yes. And in your mail, the apology note appears referring to our mistake. Apparently, your own invisibility is the real problem causing her confusion.

A vignette from Citizen and American Lyric,

and later I talked with its author, Claudia Rankin.

But first, a word that can conjure up a nostalgic sense

of lives lived intimately,

a word that every self-respecting politician uses daily.

Community.

What a life-enhancing word. But what exactly does it

refer to? Last night, the BBC even referred to the Hollywood community. But more often,

there are references to the Muslim community, or care in the community, or the gay community,

or community libraries, or... What's hiding in the light when the word community is used?

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