What a year it has been, right? We have been away for a while, so what's been going on? Tune in and find out what's coming on Books & Black Coffee. Bookworms unite!

Books mentioned in this episode :

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Overture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R James 

Things Fall Apart by Chenua Achebe

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hooks

Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Ardent 

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

The Mind of Africa by W.E Abraham

Oh my Gods - Fiona Stoffer

C. L. R. James interview on his book "Black Jacobins" (1970) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnO8lfoVBk

Music Credit : Africa Maasai Kids by SOFRA

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Akala’s Natives led this conversation in several directions as we explored its layers through class, community, race, poverty, and lived experiences. The hope is to collectively work to ease the human experience by accommodating its diversity, complexities, and suffering.

Other resources:

100 Amazing Facts About The Negro - With Complete Proof by Joel Augustus Rogers

What's Wrong With Being Black: Celebrating Our Heritage, Confronting Our Challenges by Matthew Ashimolowo

Microaggressions and Modern Racism - Endurance and Evolution by Charisse C. Levchak

Music credit: Best Time - FASSounds

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The Glass Bead Game is hoops we jump through and streets we navigate with a map that we create. It is an invitation to check our nature and our traditions and let them collide with our education. Fight mentally with our perspectives as we engage in a to and fro complicated by stories and concepts that don’t consider chronological order, just application. 

Music credit: Miyagisama - Savannah Time Travel

Music mentioned:

UB40 - One In Ten

Nispsey Hussle - Blacc Ice

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I'll bet on my Black Coffee hot spring that you won't be the same after reading this book. Do you need a reason to consider exploring the gender data gaps? This episode will be enough to fuel the fire of your curiosity. Get something to drink, and let's explore. Women have a lot of life’s keys. Don’t find yourself locked outside of doors you could have access to because of a bad attitude AND a lack of data.

Music credit : Whip - Prazkhanal

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It all started on World Book Day. One bookworm read this book for the third time, while the other was amazed by its depth. Listen as this conversation turns a kid’s book into layers of dialog that we can all explore at different levels, ages, and stages in our lives.

Why are our reactions so exaggerated when it comes to things that deviate from the norm? (Ponder on that one)

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You’ve heard about Walden through lessons in solitude, dissected its epiphanies, and immersed yourself in the analysis. This week we move to interactions with more humans, the power dynamics between men and women, navigating love and intimacy & what we discover through reflection. Eleven Minutes is a different type of conversation - it has questions and some uncomfortable discoveries. Above all, there is something for us each to take and explore a little deeper.

Music credit : ComaStudio

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The analysis, conversations, and lessons we learn from Walden never end. From this episode’s discussion, you can hear the discovery and rediscovery of things we overlooked or words that have resonated with us. Walden requires a notebook, pen, pencil, highlighters, post-it notes & whatever tools you need to take notes.

Music credit : Ashot-Danielyan

Link to exploring Walden:

https://pebblesblogger.blogspot.com/2021/08/exploring-walden-henry-david-thoreau.html

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Welcome to the Books & Black Coffee podcast. A little introduction on why books are important to us, how we met, and the journey from opening those first pages to living out all bookworm tendencies. You will laugh with us, learn with us and explore much more. Each book is a portal, a path to a place you didn’t know you needed.

Books Mentioned: 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer

The Awakening Of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde

Native Son by Richard Wright

Music credit : BeachVibesMusic

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