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 Afr...
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Oregon Black Pioneers Board member Kimberly Moreland
discusses African Americans of Portland and Perseverance: A History of
African Americans In Oregon’s Marion and Polk Counties, both published by
the Pioneers organization. She also invites listeners to view "Racing ...
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In this Summer Reads program, author J California Cooper, Reflections Coffee
& Books co-owner Gloria McMurtry, local leader Robert Phillips and
archeologist Paris Williams offered a bright and varied palette of summer
reading favorites.
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Ballers of the New School is one of the first and best books to come along
that effectively explains contemporary athletes and the public response to
them. It challenges the well-worn narrative of sport as America's most
significant site of racial progress by scrutinizing ...
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We've pulled this program our archives. First aired October 1, 2009,
"Voices of Black Poets" focuses on Black poets and poetry, including
historical recordings of rarely heard poets.
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Black Book Talk revisits interviews by and about iconic women. Some are
well-known, others not so much. The voices of Dr Maya Angelou (speaking and
singing), Ilyasah Shabazz (Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz' middle daughter) and
Rosemary Reed Miller (biograher of African-Am...
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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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This is a rebroadcast of Black Book Talk's August 1, 2019 interview with
author De'Shawn Charles Winslow re his debut novel, In West Mills.
Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the
people of West Mills say what they will; the neighbors' gossi...
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Black Book Talk listeners are invited to call in and share books by Black
authors that you'd like to give (or receive!) during the holidays. Tell us
about the book that made you smile, laugh or just think a little deeper.
You know, the one that you couldn't stop talking a...
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