Finding Joy in Stories, Service, and the Great Outdoors

This week, we are revisiting some of OBP’s most joyous interviews starting with Farai’s conversation with two publishers of color, Elizabeth Méndez Berry, vice president and executive editor at One World, an imprint at Penguin Random House, and Lisa Lucas, senior vice president and publisher at Pantheon and Schocken Books on celebrating the work of BIPOC authors and critics. Then public health professionals and sisters Nilufar Kayhani and Nazineen Kandahari share the inspiration and beauty behind starting the Afghan Clinic, an online space that serves the health needs of fellow Afghans. Farai then speaks with Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro, about finding joy in the great outdoors and encouraging others to do the same. And in the weekly roundtable Sippin’ the Political Tea, Farai talks with fellow women of color journalists, S. Mitra Kalita, founder and publisher of Epicenter NYC, and Jenni Monet, CEO of URL Media and author of newsletter Indigenously about what it means to identify as women of color and why identifying as one can evoke both personally powerful and political implications.

Our Body Politic · Farai Chideya, Jonathan Blakely, Bianca Martin, Bridget McAllister, Emily J. Daly, Natyna Bean, Steve Lack, Elizabeth Méndez Berry, Lisa Lucas, Nilufar Kayhani, Nazineen Kandahari, Rue Mapp, S. Mitra Kalita, Jenni Monet, Farai Chideya