Everything and everyone has a story, a beginning.
All Amara wants for her birthday is to visit her father's family in
New York City—Harlem, to be exact. She loves her home in Beaverton, but
can't wait to finally meet her Grandpa Earl and cousins in person, and to
stay...
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Poet/author Montrell Goss, also known as "Chillin' the Poet," introduces his
first children's book Chillin' the Courageous Meets the Young Kids. The
Portland native also charts his journey from a student who struggled with
reading to the author of six books. Through his b...
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Multhnomah County Library staffers LeFoster Williams and Milo Reed will share
their favorite reads and tell us about upcoming Fall 2019 programs. Kids
go back to school, adults go back to work and we all go back to a good book
whether in print, on disc or online.
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Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the
people of West Mills say what they will; the neighbors' gossip won't keep
Knot from what she loves best: cheap moonshine, nineteenth-century
literature, and the company of men. And yet, Knot is starting...
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Portland author Renee Watson discusses her latest book, "Watch Us
Rise." This episode originally aired Feb 07, 2019 on Black Book Talk.
Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they're sick of the way
women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so...
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"What is Circumstantial Depression? What affect does it have on the
eyes and how we see the rest of the world and ourselves? My name is Lẹwa
Ubunifu. I have Circumstantial Depression. I have struggled with this type of
depression for a very long time. I am writing this...
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Lots more than books happening at the library this summer. Multnomah County
reference and outreach staffers Foster Williams, Lanel Jackson and Elleona
Budd will tell us all about it. Books, programs, blogs, ebooks, DVDs...it's
all at there. And, if you don't make it to th...
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Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell S Jackson and
his family made to keep safe—to stay alive—in their community, a small
black Portland neighborhood blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and
governmental neglect.
Mitchell explores the Portland of h...
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Black Book Talk co-hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O. B. Hill and Patricia Welch
discuss what's on their bookshelves this month. Listeners are invited to
call-in (503-231-8187) and share their current reads.
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In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy
borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville,
Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a "Numbers" racket out of her
tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in o...
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