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Original Air Date: Sunday, March 31, 2024, and Sunday, April 7, 2024.
Dr. Brenda Greene interviews N. Jamilya Chisholm, journalist and author of the memoir, The Community (Little A. New York, 2022). Greene and Chisholm discuss her motivation for writing this memoir, a chronicling of her childhood experience in a sect of Islam. Chisholm also delves into other topics that include mother/daughter relationships, the importance of community, literature as healing, and the impact of growing up in a spiritual community centered on Black pride and consciousness. Greene and Chisholm also discuss the challenges and rewards of writing memoirs.