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b"Today's Historic Story: The True Story of Candyman\\n\\nThey say urban legends aren\\u2019t real. That they\\u2019re only cautionary tales to keep unruly children at bay, but there are elements underlying these stories that are far more terrifying than any monster or ghoul. The biggest horror? How we as Black people have learned to fear ourselves.\\n\\nWe sit down with Dr. Kinitra Brooks to guide this conversation. Beyiond being a horror scholar, she is a horror fan. She\\u2019s authored two books: Searching for Sycorax: Black Women\\u2019s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror and Sycorax\\u2019s Daughters, and is working on her next work about Conjure Women. She is also the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University.\\n\\nBHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company - hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com and share this with your people! PushBlack exists because we saw we had to take this into our own hands. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at https://BlackHistoryYear.com\\u200b. Most people do 5 or 10 bucks a month, but everything makes a difference.\\n\\nThanks for supporting the work. The Black History Year production team includes: Tareq Alani, Brooke Brown, Shiavon Chapman, Abeni Jones, Briona Lamback, Zain Murdock, Tasha Taylor, and Leslie Taylor-Grover.\\nProducing the podcast we have Marcelle Hutchins and Cydney Smith. Our audio engineer is Joanna Samuel, who also edits the show.\\nBlack History Year\\u2019s executive producer is Julian Walker.\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices"