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Hear six of our favorite book people describe their favorites this
year. This should ease your gift-giving now and throughout 2024.
Our guests are:
...Celeste Carey, KBOO's "An Evening of Afrotainment"
...FeLicia Elam, St John's Neighborhood Library
...Patrick Ford...
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When Platt set out on her journey to live with less, she never
intended to become "The Afrominimalist". She just wanted to tame the chaos in
her closet! But after struggling with the austerity and whiteness of
mainstream minimalism, Christine realized why minimalism of...
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We're featuring portions of
....a 2003 interview with internationally-recognized novelist Ernest J.
Gaines regarding A Lesson Before Dying.
.... a 2008 chat with then-newcomer Felicia Pride about her collection of
essays The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greates...
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Illmatic Consequences was influenced by rapper Nas’s 1994 debut
album Illmatic,” which features internal rhymes and inner-city narratives
based on Nas’s personal experiences. “Nas’s 1994 album ‘Illmatic’
is fundamentally a statement of self-worth. It’s not even just a co...
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Portland is widely regarded as a liberal bastion, and yet the 2010 census
found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” Longstanding racial
tensions led to the formation of a local branch of the Black Panther Party
in the late 1960s. Based in the city’s Albina Distric...
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Last month we interviewed Kelly McWilliams, author of
Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay. She credited her mother's example as
a great influence on her writing. We interviewed her mother, author
Jewell Parker Rhodes, 15 years ago, so we're delighted to rebroadcast our
2008 ...
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Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in
Louisiana, which they’ve transformed into one of the South's few enslaved
people’s museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet’s
mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the...
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E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer, poet and literary activist. His album,
"Black Men Are Precious," was a 2023 Grammy Nominee Finalist for Best
Spoken Word Poetry Album. He is the author of two memoirs and several
books of poetry including The Collected Poems of E. Ethelb...
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We're celebrating contemporary and historic Black women whose lives have
enriched the community and the world. First time guest, Dr. Carmen P.
Thompson is a historian and author of The Making of American Whiteness: The
Formation of Race in Seventeenth- Century Virginia. D...
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