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In the Authors Note, Watson and Hannah-Jones state their
intention to “show that Black Americans have their own proud origin story,
one that does not begin in slavery, in struggle, and in strife but that
bridges the gap between Africa and the United States of Amer...
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Ray Owens and Wentemi Kante, members of Portland's Well-Read Black Girls
Book Club, discuss the importance of the group beyond sharing good reads.
Both women emphasize its importance as a safe and supportive space where
Black women can fellowship with their sisters, a r...
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Every season Portland's Profile Theatre identifies a community that
their Featured Playwright is intimately involved with and creates a free
writing workshop for that specific group. The workshop is called "Community
Profile". The 2020-21 season Featured Playwright was ...
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Black Book Talk welcomed Dr Manning Marable, author of Living Black
History: How Reimagining the African- American Past Can Remake America's
Racial Future. The founding director of Columbia University's Institute
for Research in African-American Studies and author of 1...
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Author Charlotte Sherman writes, "I love being brown and wanted to write a
poem to highlight the splendor of this underestimated color for young boys
and girls, so they too will love the skin they are in. When I first heard a
beautiful, radiant, brown-skinned child say, ...
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We reprise Emma Jackson Ford’s May, 2018 interview with poet Kwame
Alexander and his musical accompanist, guitarist Randy Preston. The
interview focusses on Rebound, the follow-up to his Newbery medal-winning
middle-grade novel, The Crossover.
Alexander is a poet, educ...
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In this repeat of a March, 2003 interview, co-hosts Patricia Welch and Emma
Jackson Ford talk with James McBride about his novel, Song Yet Sung. It is
the story of Liz Spocott, a runaway slave, shot and near death, who is
wracked by disturbing visions of the future as s...
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This is a re-broadcast of our 2010 interview with Pulitzer
Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson about her award-wining book “The
Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Gr...
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Wilmer Leon Fields (August 2, 1922 – June 4, 2004) was a household name
in the Negro leagues and other baseball circuits between the 1940s and
1950s. His son, Bennie Fields, visits Black Book Talk to discuss his
father's book, "My Life in the Negro Leagues: An Autobiog...
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In the rebroadcast of the February, 2015 Black Book Talk, Portlander
Kimberly Moreland discusses history of Blacks in Portland and Oregon.
Oregon Black Pioneers Board member Kimberly Moreland discusses African
Americans of Portland and Perseverance: A History of A...
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