Ruth Nicole Brown is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood.

The author talks about her book and the work of SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood with Mark Anthony Neal, host of Left of Black from the Franklin Center at Duke University.