This new book which is amazing near and dear to my heart isn't her grace amazing the women who changed gospel music

Let me welcome to the Karen Hunter show for the first time and should not be the last the great Cheryl Wills welcome

oh Karen thank you thank you Karen you know I'm a big fan of yours you a long time

journalist that goes way back and a trailblazer.

So it's an honor to be here with you.

That's humbling, you know, but I appreciate that.

Back at you, you know, Tracy Sharad,

great editorial director at the time at Amistad who's now moving on to

another place that I don't think I could did it was it announced yet I don't know

was it announced I don't think I don't think it's covered.

We won't say nothing else, but she's going someplace.

I was committed because she put so much into our stories from Black Fortunes.

We had the great Mrs. our stories from Black Fortunes.

We had the great Mrs. Elias, author on.

I'm just looking over my shoulder,

all of the books about Tony Morris and Ms. Chloe,

you don't know us Negroes, we're doing Barracoon and Office hours with Dr. Gray

Car, we're finishing that up tonight in New Bia at 8 o'clock.

And I was like, I gotta have this book on because like you, I didn't grow up in the church church but every Sunday night in the Hunter

household on rotation gospel music everyone from Dorothy norwood to Shirley Caesar, of course James Cleveland, mass choirs, all of that,

while we play cards, which I'm sure on somebody's table that would be a little conflict of interest, but that's what we did every Sunday in my household.

I love it. I love it. And you know, this music is part of our culture right and the women who sang gospel

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