From Well-Read Black Girl: Glory Edim's Literary Kickback

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🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Check out this special preview of the new podcast, Well-Read Black Girl from Pushkin Industries. Well-Read Black Girl is the literary kickback you never knew you needed. Glory Edim, author and founder of the Well-Read Black Girl community, sits in deep, honest and close conversation with authors like Tarana Burke, Anita Hill, Gabrielle Union, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and more. You’ll also meet book club members, literacy advocates, and Black booksellers to hear what they’re reading and what it means to be well-read. In this preview, you'll get a peek behind the page and hear how these authors, thinkers, and makers found their voices, honed their crafts, and showed up in the world. You can listen to Well-Read Black Girl at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/wrbgdcp.

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0:00.0	Glory Edom started a book club called Well-read Black Girl in 2015, and since then, it's exploded into a passionate worldwide reading community.
0:10.6	Now she's launching the well-read Black Girl podcast, amplifying the voices of Bipak writers and celebrating their literary achievements.
0:17.8	On the show, Glory has deep, honest conversations with inspirational
0:21.8	changemakers of color about the art, craft, and power of the written word. You'll get to know
0:26.6	your favorite authors on and off the page and hear from luminaries like Tarana Burke, Gabrielle Union,
0:32.0	Minjin Lee, Anita Hill, Nicole Hannah-Jones, and more about how they found their voice, honed their
0:37.3	craft, and showed up in the world.
0:39.2	You'll also meet black bookstore owners and literacy advocates who talk about the current cultural moment where art, social justice, and literature collide.
0:47.4	I hope you'll enjoy Well-Red Black Girl as much as I do.
0:50.9	Be sure to check out the preview in our feed and join the celebration with
0:54.6	well-read Black Girl from our friends at Pushkin Industries, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:00.2	Okay. Is it going? Okay. We're ready. I'm ready. It's all good. All right. Hi. Oh, you sound great.
1:06.3	It's clear. Hi. I'm Gloria Edom and I love books. So yeah, I definitely. Iom, and I love books.
1:11.3	So yeah, I definitely, I love, love, love reading as a child.
1:15.0	Which is why, in 2015, I started the well-read Black Girl Book Club.
1:20.0	There was a period in life whenever a Tony Morrison book came.
1:23.6	It was like it was an assignment for me.
1:26.3	For years, we've come together to celebrate the work of female, femme, and non-binary
1:32.6	writers of color.
1:34.3	Oh my gosh, bell hooks.
1:36.5	She was so clear about the brilliance of the literature created by black women.
1:50.4	And now on the well-read black girl podcast, I'm connecting readers everywhere with the most impactful and interesting writers, thinkers, and makers today.
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