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Dr. Brooks Robinson interviews Cheryl Fabio about her late mother, Dr. Sarah Webster Fabio.

The program begins with a poem by Dr. Fabio, entitled, “My Own Thing.”

Cheryl Fabio shares what it was like to watch her mother move through the world as a black woman in the post Jim Crow era. She speaks about her mother as an accomplished professor, poet, mentor, activist, and a single parent. Throughout the interview, Brooks Robinson includes clips of Dr. Sarah Fabio from the late 1970’s.

Analysis is included on Black literary style by both Dr. Sarah Webster Fabio and Cheryl Fabio.

Photo of Dr. Sarah Webster Fabio used with permission of Cheryl Fabio