A Quick Check-In!!!

Book Review of the week - March 29, 2024 • • • On Being Included x Sara Ahmed • • • Genre: Diversity Published: Duke University Press, 2012 Length: 256 pages; 4 hours 10 mins  • • • Synopsis Want to know more about diversity and its function? Sara Ahmed writes about diversity in a way that is compelling and informative. By interviewing diversity practitioners in higher education, she explains why diversity work is hard and there is constant resistance to doing diversity work.  What happens when diversity is offered as a solution to racism in higher education?  ________________  Let's talk about DEI! As a Black leader working in a diversity, equity, and inclusion role in higher education I find myself in a consistent posture of pushing up against the walls of status quo and structural whiteness. Utilizing the works found in this book further assists leaders like me in understanding the ways institutional policies and practices continue marginalization. This book is a resource, and since DEI has taken on a new energy, I think it is important to share some resources with you that I find to be informative and illuminating. • • • To listen to this podcast in full, please head over to Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify, Podvine, or wherever you get your podcast to hear this discussion! To watch on YouTube, please remember to search for and subscribe by looking up Mr. Big Head. • Subscribe: Podcast (Mr. BigHead Reads) YouTube (Mr. Big Head) • • • #podcast #youtuber #blackauthorsmatter #blackwomen #DEI #authorsofcolor #blackreads #betonblack #podcaster #youtube #podcastlife #diversity #inclusion #whatisDEI #IamDEI #DEIwithanattitude

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Book Review of the week - August 2, 2023 • • • Racial Innocence x Tanya Hernandez • • • Genre: Education Published: 23 August 2022 (Beacon Press) Length: 216 pages; 4hours 5 mins  • • • Synopsis Racial Innocence will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a historically marginalized group to experience discrimination and also be discriminatory. Racism is deeply complex, and law professor and comparative race relations expert Tanya Katerí Hernández exposes “the Latino racial innocence cloak” that often veils Latino complicity in racism. As Latinos are the second-largest ethnic group in the US, this revelation is critical to dismantling systemic racism. Basing her work on interviews, discrimination case files, and civil rights law, Hernández reveals Latino anti-Black bias in the workplace, the housing market, schools, places of recreation, the criminal justice system, and Latino families. • • • Please head over to Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify, or Podvine, or wherever you get your podcast to hear this wonderful conversation!  • Subscribe: Podcast (Mr. BigHead Reads) YouTube (Mr. Big Head) • • • #podcast #youtuber #latinxauthorsmatter #antiblackbias #criticalreads #blackreads #racialinnocence #tanyahernandez #podcaster #youtube #podcastlife

Book Review of the week - June 21, 2023 • • • The Vibes You Feel x Kierra Sheard Kelly • • • Genre: Memoir/ Self-Help  Published: 9 May 2023 (Zonderkidz)  Length: 224 pages; 5 hours 12 mins • • • Synopsis Each day, we are under attack—by people who want to keep us down or who doubt our gifts, as well as by spiritual forces who want to knock us off our God-given path and into the darkness. In The Vibes You Feel, Kierra “Kiki” Sheard-Kelly invites you to uncover what it means to have the Holy Spirit in your life, and how listening to the vibes we sense in certain situations can help steer us toward the future God intends. • • • Please head over to Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify, or Podvine, or wherever you get your podcast to hear this wonderful conversation!  • Subscribe: Podcast (Mr. BigHead Reads) YouTube (Mr. Big Head) • Purchase the book at Amazon.com or visit IAMKIERRASHEARD.COM • #podcast #youtuber #blackauthorsmatter #blackwomen #blackhistorymonth #blackreads #betonblack #kierrasheard #podcaster #youtube #podcastlife

Book Review of the week - June 16, 2023 ~ ~ ~ Red Lip Theology x Candice Marie Benbow ~ ~ ~ Genre: Memoir/ Self-Help/ Spiritual  Published: 18 January 2022 (Convergent Books) Length: 208 pages; 6 hours 7mins  ~ ~ ~ Synopsis: Blurring the boundaries of righteousness and irreverence, Red Lip Theology invites us to discover freedom in a progressive Christian faith that incorporates activism, feminism, and radical authenticity. Essayist and theologian Candice Marie Benbow’s essays explore universal themes like heartache, loss, forgiveness, and sexuality, and she unflinchingly empowers women who struggle with feeling loved and nurtured by church culture. ~ ~ ~ Please head over to Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify, or Podvine, or wherever you get your podcast to hear this wonderful conversation!  ~ ~ ~ Subscribe: Podcast (Mr. BigHead Reads) YouTube (Mr. Big Head) ~ ~ ~ #podcast #youtuber #blackauthorsmatter #blackwomen #pridemonth #blackreads #betonblack #candicebenbow #podcaster #youtube #podcastlife

Hey Readers! Thank you for rocking with me and for supporting me! This is just a quick check-in to let you all know what is happening in my life and what to expect moving forward with Mr. Big Head Reads.  Thank you for listening and don't forget to subscribe, like, comment and share!!!!

Book Review of the week - February 22, 2023 Bet On Black x Eboni K. Williams Genre: Memoir/ Self-Help Published: 31 January 2023 Length: 256 pages; 6 hours 7mins Synopsis Journalist, attorney, and star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York reshape the cultural landscape of achievement by showing why Black unity is crucial to individual and collective success. Eboni K. Williams knew that an important part of her mission as a media personality would be to unabashedly place Blackness on a pedestal. Williams has long known that Blackness is a rich, expansive place that centers on resilience, excellence, beauty, panache, and brilliance. But these notions of Blackness have long been distorted by American racism, where for generations Black folks have been expected to live a subordinate, second-class existence in the country they call home. Please head over to Apple, Google, Amazon Music, Spotify, or Podvine, or wherever you get your podcast to hear this wonderful conversation! Subscribe Podcast (Mr. BigHead Reads) YouTube (Mr. Big Head)  Black Business of the Week: Midnite Confections Cupcakery  • • • #podcast #youtuber #blackauthorsmatter #blackwomen #blackhistorymonth #blackreads #betonblack #ebonikwilliams #podcaster #youtube #podcastlife

Book Review of the week - February 15, 2023 • • • Finding Me x Viola Davis • • • Genre: Autobiography  Published: 26 April 2022 Length: 291 pages; 9 hours  • • • Synopsis Finding Me: A Memoir (2022) is a New York Times bestselling memoir by actor Viola Davis, encapsulating her journey of growing up in poverty in Rhode Island and overcoming the trauma of her circumstances to find global success and fame. Davis is a celebrated actor with numerous awards and accolades to her name. At the time her memoir was published, she was the only African American to have won the Triple Crown of Acting: a Tony, an Emmy, and an Oscar. Through the retelling of her own experiences and the insights she has drawn from them, Davis touches upon themes of the interrelation between poverty, race, and trauma; the long and arduous process of coming to terms with one’s identity in the face of marginalization and discrimination; and the heavy hand that luck, chance, and privilege play in the glitzy world of Hollywood. • • • Please head over to Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify or Podvine, or wherever you get your podcast to hear this wonderful conversation!  • Subscribe: Podcast (Mr. BigHead Reads) YouTube (Mr. Big Head) | Black Business of the week: IG thekrlagency or visit www.krlagency.com • • • #podcast #youtuber #blackauthorsmatter #blackwomen #blackhistorymonth #blackreads #allaboutlove #bellhooks #podcaster #youtube #podcastlife

Book Review of the week - February 8, 2023 • • • All About Love x bell hooks Genre: Feminism/Self-Help/Essays Published: 22 December 1999 Length: 237 pages Synopsis New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy.  All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.  Please head over to Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify, or Podvine, or wherever you get your podcast to hear this wonderful conversation and review featuring guest @brookeberryedu.  Episode 2 will air on 2.8.23 Subscribe to Podcast (Mr. BigHead Reads) YouTube (Mr. Big Head)  Featured books in this podcast can be purchased at Amazon or a local Black Owned Bookstore: All About Love by bell hooks, I am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes, Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters.  #podcast #youtuber #blackauthorsmatter #blackwomen #blackhistorymonth #blackreads #allaboutlove #bellhooks #podcaster #youtube #podcastlife

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