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  Patriarchy Has a Racist Flavor with Savala Nolan 18.08.2026 58хв

  Order The Seven Daughters of Dupree Today!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Savala Nolan, author of, Good Woman: A Reckoning. It’s a collection of 12 essays where Savala breaks down why she refuses all attributes ascribed to women by patriarchy, misogyny and capitalism that make them good. In an attempt at liberation.In our conversation, she explains how her training as a lawyer prepared her to write her books. Why she says she was more self-possessed with her publisher for her second book than her first. And in throwing off the good girl cape, Savala questions whether women, like men, should start paying for sex.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platformMahogany Books
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  We're All Complicit with De'Shawn Charles Winslow 11.08.2026 50хв

  Order The Seven Daughters of Dupree Today!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of the novel, The Fervent Whites. It’s a Get Out-esque thriller set in the early 80s in upstate New York, with a secret about trans-racial adoption at the center of the novel that was inspired by De'Shawn’s own life.In our conversation he discusses how he’s changed his intention on who he writes for. And the reason that in a novel featuring well meaning white folks, a serial killer had to make an appearance.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platformMahogany Books
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  Life is Mean with Rachel Howzell Hall 04.08.2026 44хв

  Order The Seven Daughters of Dupree Today!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Rachel Howzell Hall, author of the novel, Mist & Malice. It's book two in the Haven Thriller Series.The novel tackles major themes including race, class, and immigration status.In our conversation Rachel explains why as a California native it was time to discuss ICE in her work and how people are being hunted. Plus, the everyday cancers she says we ignore in our neighborhoods.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platformMahogany Books
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  Rescuing History with Ashton Lattimore 28.07.2026 43хв

  Order The Seven Daughters of Dupree Today!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Ashton Lattimore, author of the novel, Runner. The novel explores prohibition era life on Martha’s Vineyard and the burgeoning cultural force that became the Harlem Renaissance between two women who will do anything to achieve their dreams, including risking their own lives.In our conversation, Ashton discusses why she enjoys exploring the full tapestry of the Black experience through highlighting class differences and the role respectability plays in keeping the main characters tethered to what they don’t want.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platformMahogany Books
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  Coming of Womanhood with Amy DuBois Barnett 21.07.2026 49хв

  Order The Seven Daughters of Dupree Today!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Amy DuBois Barnett, author of the novel, If I Ruled the World. It’s a story Amy began during her tenure in corporate media, specifically working as an editor at several major magazines including ESSENCE, EBONY and as the Editor-in-Chief of Honey.Living the dream of becoming a novelist is something Amy’s wanted to do since she enrolled in an MFA program in her twenties. In our conversation she discusses, her circuitous route into magazine publishing, that ultimately brought her back to fiction. Why she believes it’s important for women to take themselves on small adventures. And what she believes is the true cost of ambition.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Mahogany BooksRate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  Black & Published LIVE! from the American Writers Festival 14.07.2026 41хв

  Order The Seven Daughters of Dupree Today!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha takes you to the American Writers Festival, held June 7, in Chicago where she did a live recording of the podcast with the authors Jabari Asim, Deborah D. Douglas, and Lonnae O’Neal.In their conversation they discuss, the importance of narrative repair, publishing in the current socio-political climate, and how they avoid being pigeonholed to write what they want.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platformMahogany Books
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  In Partnership We Trust with Victoria Christopher Murray & Marie Benedict 07.07.2026 44хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Victoria Christopher Murray and Marie Benedict, the authors of the historical fiction novel, A Pair of Aces. In our conversations they discuss why they see their partnership as a mission with a message. The hard conversations about race, class, and feminism, they have with each other that get transported to the page. And why they want readers to remember you don’t have to be friends to be allies.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  Black. Country. Love. with Regina Black 30.06.2026 57хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Regina Black, author of the country romance novel, August Lane. The book recontexutalizes the narrative around who can be a country star as well as expands the perspective of who lives a country, read: rural, life.In our conversation, Regina explains how fanfiction and live journal became her MFA workshop and Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter provided a launch pad for her to discuss her life and what it really means to be both Black and Country.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  Black Women Deserve Beach Reads with Kristina Forest 23.06.2026 39хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Kristina Forest, author of the romance novel The Summer Girlfriend.In our conversation, Kristina discusses an enraging trip to the bookstore that sparked the idea for the novel, the plotting tools she uses to create meaningful stakes, and why she wanted to put her heroine definitively in her "soft girl era."Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  People Over Place with Toni Ann Johnson 19.05.2026 44хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Toni Ann Johnson author of the new short story collection, But Where's Home. The collection dives even further into the world she’s built with previous publications of a middle class Black family, in a majority white enclave in upstate New York.In our conversation, Toni Ann explains why she keeps returning to auto fiction as her chosen form instead of memoir or an autobiography. Plus, how she learned to decolonize her own mind and why she says it’s difficult to set a boundary with abusive parents.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  Living Cheek by Jowl with Lisa Smith 12.05.2026 51хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Lisa Smith, author of the novel, Jamaica Road. It’s a coming of age story that spans 12 years in the lives of Connie and Daphne, who wrestle with their identity as British and Jamaican at a time of great racial unrest in the UK.In our conversation, Lisa explains why she decided to write a novel during maternity leave and how she finished it after chemo. Plus, the real life do over that she gave herself through the characters in her novel.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  The Psychology of Romance with Ashley Jordan 05.05.2026 48хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Ashley Jordan, the author of the romance novel, Once Upon a Time in Dollywood.In our conversation, Ashley explains how going to grad school helped her finish her novel, plus the zombie apocalypse television show that sparked Ashley’s writing career.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  Water's at the Root with Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel 28.04.2026 38хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel, the author and illustrator of the new picture book, Dancing with Water. It's a story about a young queer child and their love for their grandfather who is a water diviner.In our conversation, Gwendolyn explains why she believes stories are truly born at the intersection of science and the humanities. Plus, how Tonya and Gwen see children’s literature as a way to preserve Black traditions.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  Every Which Way But Loose with Rickey Fayne 21.04.2026 49хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Rickey Fayne, author of the novel The Devil Three Times. A multi-generational story about one family, their spiritual gifts, and how they see they’re calling in life as either from God or Satan.In our conversation, Rickey reveals who gave him the push he needed to take his work seriously. Plus, in making the devil a central figure in his novel, what Rickey believes that says about the toll men face for being spiritually sensitive and what’s at stake for Black liberation with the devil at the helm of the fight.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  A Character Study with Christina Dotson 14.04.2026 47хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Christina Dotson, author of the novel Love You to Death. The story is billed as a Black Thelma and Louise who go on a murderous romp throughout the south.In our conversation, Christina explains how the complex characters she works with in real life help as a social worker, help her craft the imperfect personalities of the people in her novels. Plus, the real life news story Christina saw that embedded itself in her brain and took her on the wildest writing ride of her lifeMahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  Not for Your Entertainment with Helena Haywoode Henry 07.04.2026 52хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Helena Haywoode Henry, author of the YA novel, Last Chance Live!The book looks at the price of eternity through the eyes of an 18-year-old girl on death row, who decides to try to win her freedom on a reality show.In our conversation, Helena discusses the legal papers she read during her time as a lawyer that inspired the premise of her novel. Plus, the reason Helena believes reimagining the current state of capital punishment is one small way to reimagine the current state of America.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  You Gotta Win Joy with Reginald Dwayne Betts 01.04.2026 53хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of the poetry collection, Doggerel, which he says is his most joyous to date.In our conversation, Dwayne explains how he became intentional about singing a different song after realizing he’d become a long suffering Black man. Plus, why he believes identity is always in flux and why he said he’s never had a problem reading his work in prisons until he started writing about love.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  Take a Second Chance with Lizzie Damilola Blackburn 24.03.2026 31хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Lizzie Damilola Blackburn about her second novel, The Re-Write. A second chance romance between a full-figured woman and a reality TV star who’s struggling to decide exactly what kind of man he wants to be.In our conversation, Lizzie explains why she wanted to tackle toxic masculinity and fat phobia.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  Where There is Grief, There is Love with Ashley M. Jones 17.03.2026 54хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Ashley M. Jones, author of the poetry collection, Lullaby for the Grieving. A deeply personal look at what it means to find and lose love at the same time of unprecedented political turmoil.At 31-years-old, Ashley became the poet Laureate of Alabama, becoming both the youngest and the first person of color ever to hold that title.In our conversation, she discusses the amplified pressure she faced during her four-year term, what she’s learned about creating a sustainable writing practice, and the reason she says writing love poems feels unnatural.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform
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  Stepping into the Spotlight with Lauren Morrow 10.03.2026 52хв

  Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Lauren Morrow. Author of the novel, Little Movements. A book that explores what it means to leave behind the life you know and take a risk on what you love without the guarantee of reward.In our conversation, Lauren explains why she's not turned off by her book being characterized as auto-fiction. Plus, what she’s learned about her own artistic voice and where it fits in the Black literary canon And how she views starting over as an artist on the verge of breakout.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform