I spend a lot of my free time reading some truly startling things in an attempt to better understand the reality I find myself caught within. But I cannot recall another time in recent memory, where I had to pause what I was reading after finding myself so overwhelmed with emotion and an inescapable feeling of heartache.
The book that did this, was authored by this episode's guest. The book is Black Women Black love, America's War on African American Marriage, by Dr. Dianne M. Stewart professor of Religion and African American Studies at Emory University.
My interview with Dr. Stewart covers a lot of ground, from what is the definition of love, what emerges out of love, untold stories and aspects of culture that rose out of slavery, the lasting legacy of, to put it lightly, constrained economic policies on the black community, before ending with some thoughts on America as a Christian nation hell bent on salvation.
