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Digression: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything with Arionne NettlesDigression:
Season 2 · Episode 18

Digression: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything with Arionne NettlesDigression:

Upper Middlebrow

May 2, 20241h 3m

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Show Notes

Arionne Nettles joins to talk about her new book We Are The Culture: Black Chicago's Influence On Everything, as well as to recommend a couple of novels she thinks Upper Middlebrow listeners would particularly enjoy. Jesse and Ari talk about their sadness over the recent news about layoffs at their former employer, WBEZ in Chicago, and explore the idea of a common thread between African culture, and contemporary African-American culture.