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This week we are reading Death of the Author by Roland Barthes. It's not for everyone. We also ask, whether Harper Lee was racist - for some, it is not that clean cut.Mostlylit@gmail.comIG and TikTok: MostlyLitPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

This week Rai, Alex and Derek are talking everything from writers prizes to TikTok Awards and we ask: do these prizes make a difference?We also discuss The Booker Prize Longlist: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2024Let us know your thoughts!mostlylit@gm ... Show More

This weeks book: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel. Let the shenanigans begin. Email: mostlylit@gmail.comTikTok: @mostlylitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

The Breakfast Club dive into Michael Rubin issuing an apology for his controversial comments on hate within Black culture. Remembering BeatKing, who passed away at the age of 39. Lastly, we delve into the recent developments surrounding the death of beloved actor Matthew Perry. L ... Show More

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Joining us in our book-filled studio is broadcaster and author Zeinab Badawi, who shares her journey chronicling Africa's spectacular history through the voices of African historians, archaeologists, and local storytellers. Plus, we put your reading requests to award-winning auth ... Show More

A US mom is almost a millionaire after a video of her admitting to racially abusing a child went viral. Shiloh Hendrix was caught on camera continuing to use the N word after directing it towards a five-year-old boy she says stole from her child. She is now running a fundraising ... Show More

At the end of the Civil War, though slavery was technically illegal in all states, it still persisted in the last bastions of the Confederacy. This was the case when Union General Gordon Granger marched his troops into Galveston, Texas on June 19th and announced that all enslaved ... Show More

On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Just one year after the murder of Trayvon Martin set off fresh waves of racial unrest throughout the nation and in the church. Fanning th ... Show More

Kellie Carter Jackson, author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, is here to take us on a trip through American history where we learn about revolutions, change, and joy not from a few white men, but from generations of Black women. Kellie Carter Jackson https:/ ... Show More

Our first book show of the year is a first-time novelist, Karissa Chen. Her new book Homecoming is a novel a portrait in longing, an epoch love story between two characters torn apart by political unrest at the time of the Communist Revolution in China. It’s ambitious, it’s beaut ... Show More

North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is i ... Show More