Black Biz Banter

LaJuana Weathers, Aunty of Afriware Books owner Nzingha Nommo reflects on her father Frederick Douglass Gayden. He owned four dry cleaning businesses in the 1940s.

Afriware Books owner shares a review of Haiku by Richard Wright. Content was taken from a Facebook post from April 17th 2024 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

Afriware Books owner reads a Facebook post review on The Black Book edited by Toni Morrison --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

Afriware Books company owner shares the content of a Facebook post / review of the book by Dr Jacob carruthers visit our website to get your copy. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

In this episode owner of AFRIWARE books company discusses her personal health journey and her decision to become a vegan. She also covers the reasons she highly recommends this book. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

Afriware Books owner discusses her experience reading this classic. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

Afriware Books owner reviews the book "Brainwashed" from her Facebook post. Here's the youtube link to the book signing with Tom Burrell in 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

The Oak Park Public Library hosted Kwanzaa 2023 with a top tier author! Dr. Nnedi Okorafor is a prolific author with spectacular accomplishments. This is a snippet of this wonderful event. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

Afriware Books, Co had the privilege of interviewing Christine Taylor-Butler on the eve of the 2024 Solar eclipse. She is a prolific author with almost 100 books to her name several of which are focused on the Sun. Ms. Taylor-Butler will view the eclipse on April 8th in Texas. Her books are available on our site: https://www.afriwarebooks.com/apps/search?q=christine+taylor --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

Reading from the blog post https://www.afriwarebooks.com/blog/was-hannibal-black-best-books --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

Background on the shenanigans that can happen prior to a book signing. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

Stephanie Myers, author of "Invisible  Queen" shares some of the hidden history surrounding the African ancestry in Britain.  You'll learn about the life of Queen Sophia as abolitionist, wife of 21 children, botanist, and many other accomplishments.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

"The Little Mermaid," and other fairytales were all familiar childhood stories, that cultivated the imagination and piqued childhood interest. In classic popular literature, however, these picture books were cast with white characters thus leaving the Black child to wonder whether anyone during the story's time period was around that looked like them. After further research, shows they have African origins. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

1st generation horseman and "whisperer", Nahshon Cook shares some of his insights and philosophy for working and training. Nahshon Cook’s heart is for horses. He is a first-generation horseman and classical dressage trainer from inner-city Denver who has coached, competed and trained internationally in jumping and dressage. His current training interests lie in rehabilitating inconvenient horses with major mental, physical and emotional training-related trauma. He lives and works on his family’s farm Product info https://www.afriwarebooks.com/store/p4110/Being-With-Horses-Nashon-Cook-9781737465508.html --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

Michelle Duster speaks about her great grandmother's legacy and how  she is keeping it alive through literature, monuments, and even a bicycle tour. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

A starting point for those interested in obtaining more information about African spirituality. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

The Story of Juneteenth:  Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States by  Alliyah Agostini is a beautifully illustrated children's book.  Afriware Books owner Nzingha Nommo had a lively conversation with Ms. Agostini about the inspiration for her book and how she started embracing her calling as a writer.  Since she was raised in Bufallo, NY, she also mentioned how the community was impacted by the recent gun violence at the grocery store she remembered frequenting as a child. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

#teachtruth This post was originally made on Afriware Books' owner Nzingha Nommo's facebook page on June 14, 2022 in solidarity with #teachtruth.  #Teachtruth was a call to action by the Zinn Education project to draw attention to historical sites wherever we are that though "uncomfortable" for some, mark important points in our history.  The idea is to make sure information like this is never banned from history books in spite of the desire of some politicians to do so. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

From our blog, we describe and share the importance of The Alchemist book as it pertains to people of African Ancestry. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support

List of the 7 Principles as list in 3 different authors of African Ancestry. A comparison of the books is also made --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nzingha-nommo/support