Tanya Mosley

Thank you so much for that, Amani. I also want to say that this book is, I know you don't think of yourself as a poet, but it's very lyrical. It's really poetry. Thank you. How did meditating on the color blue help you come to a deeper understanding about the use of the word black to articulate what we are?

I want to talk a little bit about music. It's kind of the easiest way to get even deeper into this book and this thought. You know, I think the term blue note is so embedded in our understanding as something that relates to jazz music. If you're not a musician, maybe you just know of it, but not really.

I want to talk a little bit about music. It's kind of the easiest way to get even deeper into this book and this thought. You know, I think the term blue note is so embedded in our understanding as something that relates to jazz music. If you're not a musician, maybe you just know of it, but not really.

I want to talk a little bit about music. It's kind of the easiest way to get even deeper into this book and this thought. You know, I think the term blue note is so embedded in our understanding as something that relates to jazz music. If you're not a musician, maybe you just know of it, but not really.

At least I didn't know what it meant really until I was reading your book and I understood it to mean the in-between.

At least I didn't know what it meant really until I was reading your book and I understood it to mean the in-between.

At least I didn't know what it meant really until I was reading your book and I understood it to mean the in-between.

I was just really curious how this definition of the in-between works. also allows you to deepen your understanding of how Black people's creation of the art form of jazz itself came to be?

I was just really curious how this definition of the in-between works. also allows you to deepen your understanding of how Black people's creation of the art form of jazz itself came to be?

I was just really curious how this definition of the in-between works. also allows you to deepen your understanding of how Black people's creation of the art form of jazz itself came to be?

I want to play an early reference that you write about. It's Louis Armstrong's 1951 recording of What did I do to be so black and blue? Let's listen to a little.

I want to play an early reference that you write about. It's Louis Armstrong's 1951 recording of What did I do to be so black and blue? Let's listen to a little.

I want to play an early reference that you write about. It's Louis Armstrong's 1951 recording of What did I do to be so black and blue? Let's listen to a little.

That was Louis Armstrong's 1951, What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? It was really fun to go down memory lane and listen to these old pieces, I'll say. But what did you learn about how Armstrong really turned this song, which was several decades old by the time he sang it, into really a direct commentary for the time?

That was Louis Armstrong's 1951, What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? It was really fun to go down memory lane and listen to these old pieces, I'll say. But what did you learn about how Armstrong really turned this song, which was several decades old by the time he sang it, into really a direct commentary for the time?

That was Louis Armstrong's 1951, What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? It was really fun to go down memory lane and listen to these old pieces, I'll say. But what did you learn about how Armstrong really turned this song, which was several decades old by the time he sang it, into really a direct commentary for the time?

You also reference Nina Simone. You talk about her first album, which was in 1957. There is this song called Little Girl Blue. I also want to play that. Let's hear a little bit.

You also reference Nina Simone. You talk about her first album, which was in 1957. There is this song called Little Girl Blue. I also want to play that. Let's hear a little bit.

You also reference Nina Simone. You talk about her first album, which was in 1957. There is this song called Little Girl Blue. I also want to play that. Let's hear a little bit.

That was Nina Simone singing Little Girl Blue. And Imani, as you write about, there was just a lot going on with this album. There's a lot of delays with the recording label. It kind of set her on the path, really her career path decisions from that point on. What did you learn about Simone and the recording of this song that made you want to explore it for the book?