Welcome to Season 2!
This week I sit down with Biko Caruthers, a PHD student of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst, to talk about his studies, social issues, and comic books.

I also talk about a lifelong dream of mine that I never believed would come true that happened earlier this week at a concert.

If you'd like to look in to what Biko has been studying, here's some recommended reading from him:
- E. Patrick Johnson, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
- Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and the Resistance, a New History of the Civil Rights from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
- Assata Shakur, An Autobiography
- James Baldwin, Fire, Next Time
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
- Carl A. Zimring, Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States

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