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Hosted by Nykieria Chaney · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 35 episodes
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Black Art Is Lit is where great books by Black authors get the introduction they deserve.Hosted by Nykieria Chaney, each episode is an invitation: hear the summary, experience the full first chapter read aloud, and decide if this is the story you've been looking for. No reviews. No analysis. Just the author's words, their craft, and the joy of discovery.Whether you're a lifelong reader or just getting started, this is your weekly gateway to voices that matter, stories that resonate, and books that deserve to be read.New episodes weekly.
Nykieria Chaney hosts Black Art Is Lit | Black Literature, Culture and Iconic Stories, a arts show with 35 episodes published.
This week on Black Art Is Lit, we’re reading We Listen & We Don’t Judge by Tony Lamair Burks II. Chapter 1, “The Principal, the Pastor, and the Pep Rally,” places us in a real-time decision where leadership, community ex
This week on BlackArt Is Lit, we’re reading Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge, ahistorical fiction novel set in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn. A disciplined Black community. Dangerous medical work. Secrecy as survival. Liberti
In this episode of Black Art Is Lit, Nykieria Chaney introduces Burn Down Master’s House by Clay Cane. This historical novel takes place during American slavery and focuses on power, resistance, and the economic system t
This week on Black Art Is Lit, we begin Loving Donovan by Bernice L. McFadden. The opening chapter introduces us to admiration, alignment, and the quiet power of first impressions. Everything feels measured. Intentional.
In this episode of Black Art is Lit, we're diving into the opening chapter of Deesha Philyaw's award-winning collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. This book resonated with women because it tells the truth about
This week on Black Art Is Lit, we’re reading The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez.Originally published in the early 1990s, this book entered the literary world at a moment when Black women writers working in speculative an
This week on Black Art is Lit,we’re reading Straight, No Chaser by Jill Nelson. Written in a moment when Black womenwere navigating media, work, relationships, and public life under intensescrutiny, this book speaks to p
In this episode ofBlack Art Is Lit, we open Mama Day by Gloria Naylor and step into the world ofWillow Springs, a Black community shaped by memory, tradition, and spiritualinheritance. First published in1988, Mama Day ex
In this episode of Black Art is Lit, we dive into Invisible Life, the groundbreaking debut novel by E. Lynn Harris that helped redefine Black literature in the 1990s and beyond. Invisible Life was self-published in 1991
This week on Black Art Is Lit, we open Bling by Erika Kennedy and step straight into the early 2000s music industry, a moment when fame, ambition, and access blurred together. Published in 2004, Bling follows Mimi, a you
In this episode of Black Art Is Lit, Nykieria Chaney reads the first chapter of Pastor Mason "Ma$e" Betha explosive memoir, Revelations: There’s a Light After the Lime. This opening chapter is a rare look inside the mind
In this week’s episode of Black Art is Lit, host Nykieria Chaney reads the powerful first chapter of Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen, a deeply moving novel exploring the realities of modern Black womanhood.
Octavia Butler didn’t just write fiction—she wrote the future. And in Parable of the Sower, that future looks a lot like our present. Economic collapse, climate disaster, political instability—it’s all here. In this epis
This week Nykieria covers Sinful by Victor McGlothin Everybody's got a weakness and Chandelle Hutchins' is a love of material possessions-a love that is causing serious trouble in her marriage. Chandelle's latest object
In this episode, Nykieria covers Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sig
Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried. When
Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts workin
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or
America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington’s cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln’s log c
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecu
Deesha Philyaw
Author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
1 appearance on this show
Jayne Allen
Author of Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
1 appearance on this show
Joy-Ann Reid
MSNBC
1 appearance on this show
Isabel Wilkerson
Author
1 appearance on this show
Michael Harriot
award-winning journalist and writer
1 appearance on this show
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