During Reconstruction, a community of free Black residents formed a kingdom in Western North Carolina. They called it The Kingdom of the Happy Land. Novelist Dolen Perkins Valdezs new book, , gives a fictionalized account of this little-known Appalachian history. Leoneda Inge talks to her about the process of researching this community and the story shes crafted to celebrate it.
Guest
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, assistant professor of literature at American University and New York Times best-selling author