Black Book Talk

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Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Hosted by:

Patricia Welch, Emma Jackson Ford, O.B. Hill

Produced by:

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Every first Thursday from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Monthly program featuring interviews and discussions of works by African American authors. Co-hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O B Hill and Patricia Welch review works in all genres by well-known and emerging authors. Occasional call-in shows allow audience members to talk directly to authors and/or share their opinions on works by Black authors.

http://kboo.fm/BlackBookTalk

Topic tags:

African American, Race, History, Humor, Education, Fiction, Arts/Culture, Activism

Streams:

KBOO Stream 1

Program status:

Current

Author Renee Watson, "Piecing Me Together"

Airs at: Thu, 02/02/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. And Jade has: Every day she rides the bus away from her friends and to the private school where she ... Read more

Author Isabel Wilkerson and "The Warmth of Other Suns"

Airs at: Thu, 01/05/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O.B. Hill and Patricia Hill Welch talk with Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson in this rebroadcast of their November 2010 interview. Wilkerson discusses “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” a New Yor... Read more

Artist Behind Kwanzaa Stamp

Airs at: Thu, 12/01/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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The US Postal Service issued a Kwanzaa Forever stamp this year. The artist, Synthia Saint James, created the original Kwanzaa stamp in 1997. The colorful stamp art features a young African-American woman as the embodiment of Africa. She wears a lavender dress with a collar ... Read more

Interview with Portland author D'Norgia Taylor, SEEDLINGS

Airs at: Thu, 11/03/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Interview with Portland author D'Norgia Taylor re her new book, SEEDLINGS SEEDLINGS is a speculative/time travel novel about Seth, a beekeeper living on the northern coast of Oregon, and Melody a collector and preserver of heirloom seeds. Through Melody, Seth learns how... Read more

African-American Male School Adaptability Crisis

Airs at: Thu, 10/06/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Author Joe L. Rempson, states: "Division and differences marked both the founding of our nation and the adaptation of our people. However, the fathers of our nation's founding were able to compromise and overcome their differences. Not so of our African American Adaptation... Read more

Books for Back to School

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Multnomah County Youth Librarian Kirby McCurtis and Library Assistant SyNova Blackwell will share recommendations for young readers. They will also tell audiences about free library programs for the entire family. Fall is family reading time at the library. Read more

Preserving Langston's legacy/author Renee Watson

Airs at: Thu, 08/04/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Portland-raised author and educator Renée Watson, now based in Harlem, is part of a collective working to preserve and celebrate the legacy of Langston Hughes by leasing the Harlem brownstone where he lived and created during the last twenty years of his life. The I,T... Read more

Nikki Brown Clown

Airs at: Thu, 07/07/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Airs at: Thu, 06/02/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Before Margaret Ellen Tolbert, Ph.D., broke multiple racial barriers in the field of science, she first had to pull herself out of poverty. In her new book, “Resilience in the Face of Adversity,” she discusses her journey as an orphan in segregated Virginia to becoming the ... Read more

S. Renee Mitchell Interview (Encore broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Black Book Talk presents an encore broadcast of an interview with writer, actress, artist and teacher S. Renee Mitchell, who promotes community building in the arts. Read more