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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives.

To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe and reveal how life actually felt for almost all women before the recent past.

I'm Frances Nelson, and this is a podcast about the moment in your life when everything changed. Suddenly or planned.The impact that molded you for better or worse. What was that moment for you? Intimate storytelling about life.

If you find that true crime is the something that can plant you in your seat until you find out the hows the whys and the who. Then it’s possible you’ll enjoy this show. I will cover cases solved and unsolved. I know how many of you may despise the unsolved but it has happened none the less. Come listen in.

Sit down with me as I go back in time, or stay present covering my most favorite film and book. Some may not be so favorite, but this will be fun. It will be a good time traveling through the minds of the directors, authors, actors and actresses. Seeing what we can uncover or rediscover through it all. Join me.