Episode 134: Novelist Explores Lives of Two Blacks in Early 20th Century Chicago
Set in Chicago in the early 20th century, THE RIB KING, Ladee Hubbard's new novel, presents the divergent paths of two black servants who have been deeply traumatized by childhood incidents. It explores the rage simmering in one from the genocide committed against his community by white vigilantes, and the efforts of the other to build a business as a black woman in Chicago, who was married at 11 and pregnant at 12. In our interview Hubbard said she was interested in how African Americans are represented in history and the concerted efforts to keep them from telling their own stories.
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