Date: Wednesday, January 28 @ 9:00 AM PDT
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Emmy Award-winning journalist, historian, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of eleven books, Dr. Janus Adams is the host of public radio’s “The Janus Adams Show” and podcast. 

A frequent on-air guest, she has appeared on ABC, BET, CBS, CNN, Fox News, NBC’s The Today Show, and NPR’s All Things Considered.  With more than 500 articles, essays and columns to her credit, her work has been featured in Essence and Ms. Magazines, The New York Times, Newsday, USA Today, and The Washington Post.  Her syndicated column ran in the Hearst Newspapers for sixteen years.  Her commentary has been broadcast on CBS and NPR, and published in the Huffington Post. 
 

Her book, Glory Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American History, was licensed by McDonald’s and reached more than 3 million readers.

A pioneer of issue-oriented African-American and women’s programming she has hosted her own radio and television talk shows for more than ten years.  Her series, “Milestones in African-American Business History,” ran on public radio’s Marketplace. Her 19-hour International Women’s Day marathon broadcasts brought her to NPR as the network’s first National Arts Correspondent and opened the New York News Bureau.

An entrepreneur, as founder of BackPax (a children’s publishing company) and Harambee (the first national book club for African American literature), she changed the publishing landscape for authors and audiences. A dynamic speaker and passionate storyteller, she is known for her unique perspectives on current events through the lens of history. 

Across centuries, African American women have lived brilliantly, creatively, lovingly, intentionally—shaping families, communities, nations, and the world. Too often our lives have been framed only through the lens of struggle, as if our worth exists only in opposition to oppression. But our humanity will not be reduced to hardship.

We laugh and dance. We study and teach. We dream and dare. We innovate, nurture, resist, ache, and lead—not just to survive, but to thrive, and to make life more whole for us all.

Sister Days is a daily invitation into this expansive legacy. Across 365 “inspired moments”—sometimes celebrated, often overlooked—these stories are the missing pieces of a puzzle. Once assembled, they reveal a fuller picture of our shared human experience.

From the daring escapes of Harriet Tubman to the soaring flights of aviator Bessie Coleman, from Maggie Lena Walker founding a bank to Madame C. J. Walker bankrolling the anti-lynching movement, from Maya Angelou’s poetic “sassiness” to the everyday genius too long ignored—this is our extraordinary “ordinary.”

This is not simply a book of history; it is a book of presence. To open these pages is to sit with our foremothers, sisters, and kindred spirits, and to witness their truths—context for our own. Some inspire action, others reflection. All are gifts—reminders of all we have done and become.

With each day’s reading, join a circle of voices. Remember, imagine, create, heal, hope. In honoring yesterday, we honor our sisterhood—our Sister Days.