Gwendolyn Brooks

in a good way, by this incredibly beautiful brown woman from Pittsburgh who, who turns the world upside down.

In fact, if you go to Gwendolyn Brooks's, I think it's in Maud M- Martha, she touches a passage where she is going to this little theater on M- Michigan Avenue, and that film comes out, and she says, "You know, we saw something that we just had never seen before." And I think that was the case for, you know, Marcel Camus, you know, film, where he, he's showing Brazil during Carnival at the end of the '50s, and he finds this incredibly, not just incredibly beautiful woman, but this incredibly brown woman.

Who really causes, um, all eyes to, to just, you know, kind of stop [laughs] and, and to be stuck.

So that, so that in, in the book I, I talk about running into her literally.

A number of Black individuals are foregrounded in these discussions.

They include Phyllis Wheatley, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nina Simone, Jewel Tyus Williams, Barack Obama, and others.

By telling their stories and by honoring the weight of the trauma and violence that has long befallen the Black community, Christopher Freeburg's soul invites its readers to commune with the soul power of people who brought about transformation in the face of seeming impossibility.

I'm absolutely delighted to be able to discuss this book with you today, Chris.

So my editor, Jennifer Banks, suggested that I work through different people and individuals and and think about more of individualized lived experience.

And that kind of really resonated with me.

So I wanted to shift the idea of an ideas book or a philosophical book about the idea of Black culture to what it means to actually live out and practice some of the most important and important important concepts that people that we that we know and love and some of the people that we don't know and love have and carry with us or teach us or want to pass down that's why i kept noticing that there's certain kinds of concepts that that different major figures such as the ones we mentioned barack obama or phyllis wheatley Or Anita Simone, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jewel Ties Williams, people in my family that they really put a big emphasis on and said, if there's anything that I want you to remember about my life, it's this.

And a lot of that had to do with serving others.

A number of Black individuals are foregrounded in these discussions.

They include Phyllis Wheatley, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nina Simone, Jewel Tyus Williams, Barack Obama, and others.

By telling their stories and by honoring the weight of the trauma and violence that has long befallen the Black community, Christopher Freeburg's soul invites its readers to commune with the soul power of people who brought about transformation in the face of seeming impossibility.

I'm absolutely delighted to be able to discuss this book with you today, Chris.

And that kind of really resonated with me.

So I wanted to shift the idea of an ideas book or a philosophical book about the idea of black culture to what it means to actually live live out and practice some of the most important and important concepts that people that we know and love and some of the people that we don't know and love have and carry with us or teach us or want to pass down.

That's why I kept noticing that there's certain kinds of concepts that different major figures such as the ones we mentioned, Barack Obama or Phyllis Wheatley or Anita Savone, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jewel Tiles Williams, people in my family that they really put a big emphasis on and said, if there's anything that I want you to remember about my life, it's this.

And a lot of that had to do with serving others.

A number of Black individuals are foregrounded in these discussions.

They include Phyllis Wheatley, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nina Simone, Jewel Thais-Williams, Barack Obama, and others.

By telling their stories and by honoring the weight of the trauma and violence that has long befallen the Black community, Christopher Freeberg's Soul invites its readers to commune with the soul power of people who brought about transformation in the face of seeming impossibility.

I'm absolutely delighted to be able to discuss this book with you today, Chris.

So, uh, my editor, um, Jennifer Banks, suggested that I work through different people and individuals, uh, and, and, um, and think about more of individualized lived experience, and that kind of really res- resonated, resonated with me.

So I wanted to shift the idea of an ideas book or a philosophical book about the idea of Black culture to what it means to actually live, live out and practice, um, some of the most, um, important and important concepts that people that we, that we know and love and some of the people that we don't know and love have and carry with us or teach us or wanna pass down.

That's what I kept noticing, that there's certain kinds of concepts that, that different major figures, such as the ones we mentioned, Barack Obama or, um, Phyllis Wheatley or, or, um, Nina Simone, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jewel Thais-Williams, people in my family that they really put a, a big emphasis on and said, "This, if there's something, anything that I want you to remember about my life, it's this." And so, and a lot of that had to do with serving others.

Hmm.