The Pages That Power Us: Kevin Powell on the Liberation of Reading
Karen Hunter Is Awesome!
Women's Empowerment Network
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. |
| 0:11.3 | And in this space, we have conversations that very few people have. |
| 0:15.0 | I love nuance, but more than nuance. |
| 0:17.4 | I really like to think deeply about the conditions that we find ourselves in every day. |
| 0:22.0 | And this is what this space is all about. So come on in. Leave your judgment and your closed |
| 0:27.9 | mindedness at the door. Open your heart. Open your mind and come on in and challenge yourself |
| 0:32.9 | to think more broadly. Hope you enjoy. We are reading in Nubia several books. So Dr. Carr on Mondays |
| 0:39.0 | will start in a couple of weeks, reading Born in Blackness, Howard French's book, which we've had |
| 0:43.6 | Howard French in Nubia having a discussion about that very book. So those of you who are Nubia, |
| 0:48.1 | you can catch up and look at the conversations we had with Howard French before. Dr. Carr kicks |
| 0:52.9 | his deep read of it off the end of the month. |
| 0:56.7 | But we're reading right now sky full of elephants on Sundays. |
| 1:01.7 | Wow. |
| 1:02.5 | And I thought it was going to be a four-week journey. |
| 1:05.1 | I thought we would finish this book in four weeks. |
| 1:07.4 | And I was inspired because I said, you know, after we did Dr. Black's rites of passage, |
| 1:12.1 | there was so much yearning to, you know, do more. And for me, book clubs don't get it because |
| 1:18.4 | you're reading. Some people read. Some people don't. But we're literally reading like, remember |
| 1:22.2 | in school? You raise your hand. You take a passage. So we're going around. It was 250 people to start with. And, you know, I'm trying to get people who want to read, raise your hand you take a passage you take a so we're going around it was 250 people to start with and |
| 1:29.1 | you know I'm trying to get people who want to read raise your hand and read a couple of pages next |
| 1:33.7 | person we talk about it yes it has been let me tell you so we invited Cbo Campbell in on the fourth |
| 1:40.3 | week because I thought we'd be finished we weren't even halfway done but he came and he spent two hours with us and, you know, asked questions, told him not to give |
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