Our first conversation of the season is with the honorable Ebony Lumumba, Ph.D. -- mother to her babies Alaké and Nubia, Department Chair and Professor of English at Jackson State University, and loving champion of her home community in Jackson, Mississippi.  Motherhood is powerful. In all matters of life, Ebony embodies and shares the love mothers gave to her. In this episode you'll hear Ebony talk about the framework to her life, everyday black mothering as resistance, stories as salvation, balancing and completing narratives, and the importance of documenting black lives. Please read her monumental work on black motherhood here: Of Mules and Mamas: Four Women, Africana Mothering, and Resistance Mentioned in this episode: Four Women by Nina Simone Toni Cade Bambara: Those Bones Are Not My Child Buchi Emecheta: The Joys of Motherhood Chimimanda Ngozie Adichie: Purple Hibiscus Lorene Cary: The Price of a Child Chinua Achebe: Anthills of the Savannah Nichelle Nichols Mae Jemison Ebony's Lecture on Afrofuturism as Resistance to the Erasure of Black Women Toni Cade Bambara: Salvation Is The Issue Toni Seawright: First Black Miss Mississippi Quilts and Activism Underground Railroad Quilting Codes Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness Chimimanda Ngozie Adichie: Danger of a Single Story Jesmyn Ward Story of Ebony's Jesmyn Ward book club at Mississippi State Penitentiary (aka Parchman) Hoop Dreams Documentary Julius Scott - The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution  Wayetu Moore

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