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Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Add to your reading list with our hosts Angela Rye, Tiffany Cross, and Andrew Gillum. They share some of their favorite fiction and nonfiction, and chat about reading strategies for the aspiring and veteran bookworms.
This episode is a rerun that originally aired on 07-04-25.
THE READING LIST
Angela:
Just Permanent Interests by William L. Clay
Critical Race Theory - the key writings that formed the movement
Medical Apartheid by Dr. Harriet Washington
The Life and Times of Ron Brown: A Memoir by Tracey L. Brown
Assata: An Autobiography
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Andrew:
Four Hundred Souls edited by Ibram Kendi and Keisha Blain
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Analects of Confucius
The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
Tiffany:
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
Black AF History by Michael Harriot
The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Fanonne Jeffers
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
The Devil You Know by Charles Blow
The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Today's mini-pod is a little bit of return to last summer. |
| 0:08.7 | Our very efficient reader, Tiffany, has been bugging us about our reading and encouraging us to read a lot more sources if we could. |
| 0:17.7 | So as we hunkered down, this hopefully winter break with a book, there are |
| 0:22.6 | plenty of recommendations in this episode. You can find a list of all the books that we talk |
| 0:26.3 | about in this episode in the description. Happy holidays and happy reading, y'all. |
| 0:30.8 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome home, everybody. This is Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and I'm Andrew Gillum, and this is the minipod, and we don't know what we're about to talk about. Yes, that was Angela's suggestion that we wait and figure out what we're going to talk about. And I was saying, let's just hit it. We're in the show now. We're in the show. What's good? Well, we've heard you guys in the audience ask us about what we're reading, what we like to read. And so I thought this might be a good opportunity for the co-host to share some of their favorite books and things we would recommend to you guys. I know I have a lot. I, as I talked about, have read Charles Blow's book, The Devil, You Know. So I would |
| 1:14.3 | love for folks to read that. We can have a conversation about it. I am reading The Color of |
| 1:18.5 | Money, Wealth in Black Banks. I might have the subtitle wrong, but it's Mercer Badaritan, |
| 1:25.0 | I think that's a fair name. I had her on my show some years ago and started the |
| 1:29.2 | book and embarrassingly so I did not finish it and I hate when folks, when people do that. |
| 1:34.7 | This is a question I'll ask you guys. I might be a bit of a, I don't think it's snobbery. I think it's |
| 1:41.5 | just the art of reading. I do not think audio, when people say they listen to the audiobook, I don't know if that's reading. And I say that because, like, your brain literally processes it differently. And for the right... Like, when you read something, you're comprehending... It's the difference between listening to a podcast like y'all are doing now versus actually |
| 2:01.0 | reading the words. Like your brain literally processes it. And so, you know, and you have friends with |
| 2:06.0 | kids and they're like, oh, I did the audio book. And the parents are like, no, no, no, you need to read the book. |
| 2:10.4 | I think if I had kids, I'd be one of those parents. Like, you have to strengthen that skill. |
| 2:15.1 | You have to read. So do you all think that audiobooks counts as reading? |
| 2:21.9 | Yeah. If you are an auditory learner. Yeah. Which some people are. Some people like need to hear it out |
| 2:30.0 | loud. In fact, when I'm actually reading, whether it's a report or a book or even an |
| 2:36.9 | article, sometimes I will say out loud to myself a piece that is something I want to |
| 2:44.2 | remember, a piece that I may want to go back to. Now, I love, I love physical books because I like writing |
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