“What can you create that truly speaks to this moment?” Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer Discuss The New Brownies Book

Time to hand you a jot of history this morning. Listen close:

In 1920, as Black art and writing flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, scholar, author, and activist W. E. B. Du Bois and managing editor, Jessie Redmon Fauset, started a magazine for children. Calling it The Brownies’ Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun, it was the first magazine aimed specifically at Black young people. In his role as editor-in-chief, Du Bois reached out to the era’s most celebrated Black cre...