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 she ...
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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 Great...
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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 Autobiograp...
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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 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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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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