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Speaker 1: Glory Edam started a book club called Well Read Black

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Speaker 1: Girl in twenty fifteen, and since then it's exploded into

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Speaker 1: a passionate worldwide reading community. Now she's launching the Well

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Speaker 1: and celebrating their literary achievements. On the show, Glory has deep,

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Speaker 1: honest conversations with inspirational change makers of color about the art, craft,

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Speaker 1: and power of the written word. You'll get to know

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Speaker 1: your favorite authors on and off the page, and hear

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Speaker 1: from luminaries like Toronto Burke, Gabrielle Union, Minjin Lee, Anita Hill,

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Speaker 1: Nicolehannah Jones, and Moore about how they found their voice,

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Speaker 1: hone their craft, and showed up in the world. You'll

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Speaker 1: also meet black bookstore owners and literacy advocates who talk

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Speaker 1: about the current cultural moment where art, social justice, and

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Speaker 1: literature collide. I hope you'll enjoy Well Read Black Girl

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Speaker 1: as much as I do. Be sure to check out

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Speaker 1: the preview in our feed and join the celebration with

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Speaker 1: Well Read Black Girl from our friends at Pushkin Industries

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Okay is it going? Okay,

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Speaker 1: We're ready. I'm ready. Sound good? All right? Hi, Oh

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Speaker 1: you sound great. It's clear. Hi. I'm Glory Adam and

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Speaker 1: I love books, so yeah, I definitely I love, love,

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Speaker 1: love reading as a child, which is why in twenty

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Speaker 1: fifteen I started the Well Read Black Girl book Love

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Speaker 1: because there was appeared in life whenever I'm Ny Morrison bookay,

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Speaker 1: it was like it was an assignment for me. For years,

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Speaker 1: we've come together to celebrate the work of female them

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Speaker 1: and non binary writers of color. Oh my gosh, fell Hooks.

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Speaker 1: She was so clear about the brilliance of the literature

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Speaker 1: creative by black women. And now on the Well Read

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Speaker 1: Black Girl Podcast, I'm connecting readers everywhere with the most

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Speaker 1: impactful and interesting writers, thinkers, and makers. Today, we'll have intimate,

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Speaker 1: in depth conversations on the power of the written word

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Speaker 1: and explore what it means to be well read. Oh

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Speaker 1: what it means everything. I take pride in being well read.

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Speaker 1: You'll hear from authors like men Jin Lee on her

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Speaker 1: journey to writing the books we love to read. So

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Speaker 1: I would go to work seven days a week and

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Speaker 1: I thought, I can't do this anymore. Yeah, so I

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Speaker 1: quit in nineteen nineties, I believe, and then I published

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, which means it took twelve

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Speaker 1: years to publish a book. An author and activist. To

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Speaker 1: Rona Burke, a lot of amazing things have happened to

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Speaker 1: me since Me Too went viral, But the only thing

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Speaker 1: that has happened to me that was actually something that

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Speaker 1: I was was a goal in my life was to write.

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Speaker 1: You'll hear from Jacqueline Woodson. It keeps me saying a

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Speaker 1: writing really does, and it keeps me feeling like I

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Speaker 1: or not I do or not, and authors like Zeba

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Speaker 1: Blay anytime that I write, I'm trying to be honest.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even trying to be good. I'm just trying

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Speaker 1: to be honest with myself and get life lessons from

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Speaker 1: author and icon Anita Hill. I've heard from people who

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Speaker 1: said that in nineteen ninety one, they listen to the

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Speaker 1: hearings and then they understood their own experience. That's better,

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Speaker 1: and that's what I think we all as a writer want. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you'll even get to know your favorite writers beyond the page.

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Speaker 1: Oh we're gonna do rapid fire questions. Okay, So between

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Speaker 1: beloved the book or beloved the film? Which was better?

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Speaker 1: Definitely the book. Are you a coffee or tea person?

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Speaker 1: Coffee anti? What's your sign? I am all virgo everything.

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Speaker 1: Name a movie that never gets old that you can

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Speaker 1: watch over and over and over and over again. Probably Jumanji.

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Speaker 1: If you were a superhero, what would your superpower be? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I have thought about that. My superpower would be every

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Speaker 1: time that I've met someone that I would be able

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Speaker 1: to glimpse their past. Oh that's a good one. Kinship

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Speaker 1: community support. You'll find all of this and more on

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Speaker 1: my new weekly show. Listen to Well Read Black Girl,

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Speaker 1: your friends to tell their friends so we can all

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Speaker 1: be friends. We're in a family. Yeah, I love that.