![]() Guests: William Mitchell, Retired College Football Coach, USAF pilot Cameron McCoy, PhD, Assistant Professor, History, Brigham Young University Mikaela Dufur, Associate Professor, Sociology, Brigham Young Universityīetween the Super Bowl last weekend and the Winter Olympics starting this weekend, it’s a big moment in sports. They include Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Colson Whitehead. ![]() That theme runs through the new book, “Black Ink,” which is a compilation of essays and excerpts by 25 black writers spanning two and a half centuries. And, in many ways, it has remained so for African Americans. ![]() So, learning to read and write became an act of resistance for enslaved people. An enslaved person caught reading, in certain states, could be put to death. Throughout American history, black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. Guest: Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Author, Editor, “Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing” ![]() ![]() Black Ink: The Power of Reading and Writing ![]()
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