Lauren Blackley and Hanastasija Benjamin discuss some of their experiences in the classroom and ways people of other races could learn from and appreciate African American history and culture.

This episode introduces a new group of contributors to the podcast, focusing on African American History as American History. To kick off the new focus, Miss D'yona Bowers presents an intriguing thought experiment--what if slavery never happened?

Lydia Coker discusses the reasons that Maverick is a feminist character despite the stereotypical markers of black masculinity that he also carries. At about 26 minutes, we also get into Orthodox Judaism and Ethiopians in Israel . . .

The conclusion to Episode 3 with Brianna Lewis.

Brianna Lewis discusses her own experience as a child and her comparison of Concrete Rose with novels by Sapphire, such as Push, the inspiration for the film precious.

Discussing Langston Hughes' "Theme for English B" and a little more of Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Maya Angelou all wrote in different centuries about freedom and their experience in the Americas (for Wheatley, during the Revolutionary Era, The United States was not yet a nation). Sophomore Nyazia Hewitt pairs two poems and a letter to trace their strategies for talking about freedom and describing the experience of racism.