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In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty’s house doesn’t quite feel like
home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can’t shake the feeling
that her mother doesn’t want her. Church helps those worries fade, if only
for a little while. The singing, the preaching, the...
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Author Robert Greer returns to " Black Book Talk" to discuss the latest work
in his cowboy series set in Colorado. Astride a Pink Horse, we must
question if the Cold War ended years ago or not. For Thurmond Giles, a
decorated African American Air Force veteran found ...
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"Black Book Talk" hosts offer their summer reading favorites for your
consideration. Whether you love fiction, non-fiction, children's or adult
literature, we have something for you. Print, streaming or books-on-CD
will all be included. On the beach or in your backyar...
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The Power of a Rose - An interview with Portland author Mario DePriest
regarding his new book, The Power of a Rose. Subtitled "Man-to-Man on Women,
Romance and Communication," this is a primer for men who want to improve
their relationships with the opposite sex. DePrie...
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Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever
going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity
that comes her way. And Jade has: Every day she rides the bus away from her
friends and to the private school where s...
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Hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O.B. Hill and Patricia Hill Welch talk with
Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson in this rebroadcast of their
November 2010 interview. Wilkerson discusses “The Warmth of Other Suns:
The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” a New ...
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The US Postal Service issued a Kwanzaa Forever stamp this year. The artist,
Synthia Saint James, created the original Kwanzaa stamp in 1997.
The colorful stamp art features a young African-American woman as the
embodiment of Africa. She wears a lavender dress with a colla...
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Interview with Portland author D'Norgia Taylor re her new book, SEEDLINGS
SEEDLINGS is a speculative/time travel novel about Seth, a beekeeper
living on the northern coast of Oregon, and Melody a collector and preserver
of heirloom seeds. Through Melody, Seth learns h...
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