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Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hi. I'm Glory Adam, and I love books. It's

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Speaker 1: been my life's work to brighten and enrich the lives

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Speaker 1: of readers around the globe through the celebration of legendary

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Speaker 1: Black authors, which is why in twenty fifteen, I started

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Speaker 1: the Well Read Black Girl book Club. For years, the

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Speaker 1: Well Read Black Girl community has brought black people together

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Speaker 1: to hang out, share, and celebrate the uniqueness of black

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Speaker 1: literature by female them and non binary writers of color.

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Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, we held the very first Well Read

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Speaker 1: Black Girl Festival in Brooklyn, New York, and next year

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Speaker 1: we're taking this journey one step further. On the Well

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Speaker 1: Read Black Girl Podcast, I'll dialogue with the most impactful

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Speaker 1: and interesting writers, thinkers, and makers today. You'll be welcomed

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Speaker 1: into intimate, in depth conversations that capture the current cultural

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Speaker 1: moment where the written word and society collide. I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to your favorite emerging and establish authors, and pay homage

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Speaker 1: to the literary legacies of black woman writers, and explore

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Speaker 1: what it means to be a well read black girl.

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Speaker 1: Something that started organically with a simple well Read Black

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Speaker 1: Girl t shirt has grown into something that black folks

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Speaker 1: need kinship, community and support. You'll find all this and

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Speaker 1: more on my new weekly show. Subscribe to Well Read

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Speaker 1: Black Girl wherever you get your podcasts coming from Pushkin

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