AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination co-curated by poet Nate Marshall. On this last episode of 2020, we get to learn from Elizabeth Mendez Berry. Elizabeth is an editor, writer, and funder who is currently the Vice President and Executive Editor of One World, an imprint of Random House in New York. She's also the cofounder of Critical Minded, an initiative supporting cultural critics of color, and the Unicorn Fund, which offers resources to artists and others who have been targeted for speaking out. We talk about the transformative potential of criticism, her experience as a music writer for VIBE, and much more.SHOW NOTESJeff Chang - https://jeffchang.net/Black Star Film Festival - https://www.blackstarfest.org/Greg Tate - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-critic-who-convinced-me-that-criticism-could-be-artKaren Good Marable - https://twitter.com/kgoodmarableToni Morrison - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/21332/toni-morrison/One World Lit - https://www.oneworldlit.com/Haki Madhubuti - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/haki-madhubutiRichie Perez - https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/nyregion/richard-perez-is-dead-at-59-advocate-for-minority-rights.htmlLove Hurts by Elizabeth Mendez Berry - https://elizabethmendezberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/LOVE-HURTS-for-site-2.pdfBecome an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donateRate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091Photo by Rog and Bee Walker (instagram.com/papermonday)