Piper Hughley is a professor and romance novelist, centering the voices of women who have been erased or ignored in her classroom and her novels. Long seen as a field of writing that doesn't need to be taken seriously, Piper sees centering the stories of Black men and women in historical romance as a subversive act.

And she spills some tea about WEB DuBois and Booker T Washington.

Transcript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hg9hf0s8AxU2veCPexBjrfVPrLUecImw/view?usp=sharing