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Sincere and inspiring, soulful and uplifting, Kiara Imani's debut memoir, Therapy Isn’t Just for White People, chronicles Imani’s compelling journey to understand the racial trauma experienced by many Black people in America, and the underlying effect it has on Black mental health.
Featured Episode: A Very Special Episode. Following the release of Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone, author Sam Sumpter sits down at the Radio Free Brooklyn studio with a selection of featured bands for a series of short and sweet (and frequently funny) interviews covering some of the key themes featured in the book. Featuring Tea Eater, A Very Special Episode, and Mary Shelley.
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Part homage to the characters Calhoun identified with and loved, part celebration of the pop culture—television, movies, music, video games—that influenced his childhood, Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop Culture is an honest, thought-provoking, and often hilarious coming-of-age memoir that celebrates Black identity in America.
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An amazing audience showed up for a fun and lively book launch event featuring author Sam Sumpter and her book, ‘Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone’. The event featured host Rich Weiss and a special music performance by Atlas Engine. An amazing, lively conversation about the Brooklyn music community from the unique perspective of the bands who live and love Brooklyn.
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Artists and Bands featured in the Bands do BK Book. The bands behind the names, the names behind the bands. For your cross-referencing convenience, here’s a full list of the artists and groups who are quoted and referenced as contributors throughout the book, ‘Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone’.
On the Real: Founder and Executive Director of the Record Label Die Jim Crow and NYC Poet Fury Young
NYC poet Fury Young speaks on growing up in the multicultural Lower East Side NYC, getting into activism, and shares passages from his book Meat & Milk. “Poets don’t usually write poetry. They become poetry. They inhale and exhale metaphors and alliterations like trees give us air. Fury Young is such a poet” - Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets.
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Sincere and inspiring, soulful and uplifting, ‘Therapy Isn’t Just For White People’ is a brilliant debut memoir chronicling Kiara Imani’s compelling journey to understand the racial trauma experienced by many Black people in America and the underlying effect it has on Black mental health. A journey of understanding, healing, empathy, self-love, and taking control of her personal narrative about what it means to be Black in America in the 21st century.
Featured Episode: Tea Eater. Following the release of Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone, author Sam Sumpter sits down at the Radio Free Brooklyn studio with a selection of featured bands for a series of short and sweet (and frequently funny) interviews covering some of the key themes featured in the book. Featuring Tea Eater, A Very Special Episode, and Mary Shelley.
"Jaimie Kelton and Robin Hopkins are helping to empower a whole new generation of LGBTQ people, specifically LGBTQ women, as they navigate their journey towards parenthood." — Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLADD
Part homage to the characters Jordan Calhoun identified with and loved, part celebration of the pop culture—television, movies, music, video games—that influenced his childhood, Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop Culture is an honest, thought-provoking, and often hilarious coming-of-age memoir that celebrates Black identity in America.
