When you think of an epic, what comes to mind? The Iliad, The Odyssey, maybe* Beowulf*? Well author Honoree Fanonne Jeffers points out that epics are almost always about white men. She told former Morning Edition host Noel King that she didn't want to tell that story because that story has already been told...many times. So, Jeffers set out to write a different kind of epic about heroic Black women in The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices)NPR Privacy Policy)
