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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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 they decide
to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work online--poems, essays,
videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and...
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This is a re-broadcast of the October 4 2018 edition of "Black Book Talk".
Guests Perry Gardner and Tamyka Miles of Multnomah County Library shared
books on their current reading list. Among the titles discussed were:
Take You Wherever You Go, a Memoir, by Kenny...
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An interview with Coco LaBon, author of The Legend of the Chocolate River.
This story recounnts the adventures of Manda, a baby elephant, and his
best friend, Mr. Crowley, a wise, old frog, as search for the legendary
Chocolate River. Manda announces that he wants to...
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Have a book you can't wait to finish? An African-American author that you
want to introduce to the world? Or, maybe you're looking for new titles
by Black authors? Something to curl up with during the long winter
hours? Then "What I'm Reading" is the perfect "Black...
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Call during this broadcast and contribute to KBOO's Fall Membership Drive.
Give to KBOO and get a copy of Betty Before X...a powerful middle-grade
fictionalized account of the childhood activism of Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's
wife, written by their daughter Ilyasah Shaba...
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