Ep001: Shoutin’ in the Fire with Danté Stewart
“To believe in the better, to believe in your future, to shout in the midst of a country on fire, to stare down the lions, to shake the foundations of the empire, to make meaning in the face of death, to fail, to create, to live, and to love–this is the stuff of hope.”
In honor of the first Episode in the relaunch of The Good Ancestor Podcast, Layla Saad interviews Danté Stewart, an African-American speaker and writer on the intersecting topics of race, religion, and politics.
Danté’s debut Book Shoutin’ In The Fire: An American Epistle is our April 2022 book selection in the newly rebranded Become A Good Ancestor Book Club. To find out more about the book and to join us in the book club click here.
Danté Stewart is a speaker and a writer whose work in the areas of race, religion, and politics has been featured on CNN and in The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, Comment, and elsewhere. He received his BA in sociology from Clemson University and is currently studying at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Layla Saad opens up the conversation to some inspirational topics, such as:
How Danté's Grandaddy influenced who he is today
Danté's early love for books and how they inspired him to become an author.
A deep dive into emotional stories that stand out from Danté’s book.
Danté talks about what Anti-Blackness looks like and how to love your Blackness in a white space.
The real, rich cultural Blackness Danté was raised in and how it impacted his journey and book.
“Little by little I stopped going home, I started going around white people more and more. And then doing that, that came with the script that you are exceptional, that you are not like them, you are different.”
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Connect with Danté Stewart
Website: dantecstewart.com
Instagram: @stewartdantec
Twitter: @stewartdantec
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