Season 1, Episode 21: Conversation with Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems, Professor, Author, Screenwriter

In this episode 21 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith talks with Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems about the 18 tenets of Africana Womanism, which is a term Hudson-Weems conceptualized.  The sixth edition of Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems' classic text Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves  will be published this year by Routledge.  Dr. Hudson-Weems is Professor of English at University of Missouri. She  was the first to argue that the lynching of Emmett Till was the impetus for the civil rights movement.  Her recently published edited volume Africana-Melanated Womanism: In It Together (Cambridge Scholars) is available from Amazon and other book sellers.