Coming soon is the podcast series "A Colored Girl Speaks: Meditations on Race and Other Magical Things." Southern-born between the ellipses of segregation and desegregation, I have journeyed through colored, black, and white Americas, ultimately landing as an Ivy League-trained university professor burdened with racial silences of my own.

In this 13-episode series, as my biography unfolds in ordinary and profound ways on the edges of the American promise, I gather up who I was and what I have become to reclaim the colored girl within.

For more on A Colored Girl Speaks, see the website www.andreahunter.com, and connect with us on Twitter @IamAndreaHunter and subscribe to this podcast.

We also invite you to share your stories and meditations, and to ask for those stories not yet given.

A Colored Girl Speaks Podcast Team:

Andrea Hunter, Essayist and Producer

Tiera Chiama Moore Narrator, Co-Producer and Vocal Artist

Vernonia Thornton, Announcer

Jamonica Brown and Deanna Floyd, Production Assistants

Southern-born between the ellipses of segregation and desegregation, I journeyed colored, black, and white Americas, ultimately landing as an Ivy League-trained university professor burdened with racial silences of my own. It was a near hypertensive crisis that led me to gather up who I was and what I have become to reclaim the colored girl within.

For more on A Colored Girl Speaks, please visit the website, www.andreahunter.com, and connect with me on Twitter @IamAndreaHunter and subscribe to this podcast.

We also invite you to share your stories and meditations, and to ask for those stories not yet given.

References, Resources, and Copyright

• Drylongso: African American vernacular, adopted from the Gullah dialect, means ordinary, customary, plain, or every day. Also, can be used to describe something previously rare becoming commonplace. See also John L. Gwaltney (1993). Drylongso: A self-portrait of Black America. New York: New Press
• ·Glossolalia are utterances approximating words and speech, usually produced during states of intense religious experience, as in “speaking in tongues."
• I’m Glad Salvation is Free. Hymn written by Isaac Watts (b. 1674 – d.1748), performed by Manual Lloyd.

A Colored Girl Speaks Podcast Team:

• Andrea Hunter, Essayist and Producer
• Tiera Chiama Moore Narrator, Co-Producer and Vocal Artist
• Vernonia Thornton, Announcer
• Jamonica Brown and Deanna Floyd, Production Assistants

I revisit what was but I do not long for an American past or seek the romanticisms of a segregated ethnic enclave. I go home to places where I been for the same reasons all those people left my Aunt Fannie to be guardian of so many memories—to know I am, and we were.

For more on A Colored Girl Speaks, please visit the website, www.andreahunter.com, and connect with me on Twitter @IamAndreaHunter and subscribe to this podcast.

We also invite you to share your stories and meditations, and to ask for those stories not yet given.

References, Resources, and Copyright

• Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Recognized as one of the most well-known Negro (African American) spirituals dating to the era of slavery in the United States. 
• Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (track 14)., performed by Odetta at Carnegie Hall, 1960. Courtesy of Concord Music Group.

A Colored Girl Speaks Podcast Team:

• Andrea Hunter, Essayist and Producer
• Tiera Chiama Moore Narrator, Co-Producer and Vocal Artist
• Vernonia Thornton, Announcer
• Jamonica Brown and Deanna Floyd, Production Assistants