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: 
KBOO
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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
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Current

National Poetry Month

Airs at: Thu, 04/07/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Women's History Month

Airs at: Thu, 03/03/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Author Rosemary Reed Miller discusses book Threads of Time, the Fabric of History

Airs at: Thu, 02/04/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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The Threads of Time, the Fabric of History profiles African-American dressmakers and designers from 1850 to the present. Few Americans know that Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's wedding dress was designed and created by a Black woman, Ann Cole Lowe.  The soon-to-be First Lady w... Read more

Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press.

Airs at: Thu, 01/07/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Interview with Carol McCabe Booker, editor of Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press.   In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper’s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation’s capitol and a career in journ... Read more

Vivian Whitlow, Lift Every Voice and Sing

Airs at: Thu, 11/05/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Portland's Lillian M. Whitlow returns with Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing, an anthology consisting of short biographies of  outstanding African Americans.  The founder of the Maya Angelou Writers Guild profiles historical figures whose accomplishments span the worlds of music, s... Read more

Robin Coste Lewis on her New Collection of Poems, "Voyage of the Sable Venus"

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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The guest is poet Robin Coste Lewis, who talks about her new collection of poems, Voyage of the Sable Venus, a meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice. Robin Coste Lewis is a Provost’s Fellow in Poetry and Vis... Read more

Octavia's Brood, Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Airs at: Thu, 09/03/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them togethe... Read more

Renee Mitchell guests

Airs at: Thu, 08/06/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Renee Mitchell shares what it means to be Black, a woman and a spoken word artist in Portland.  Hear them read from their works and speak of their experiences as creative women in this city.  She will also let people know about Spit/Write, the Portland Youth Poet Laureate P... Read more

It All Begins with "I": the New Rules of Thinking by author Stuart K Robinson

Airs at: Thu, 07/02/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Author Stuart K Robinson challenges us to overcome boundaries that limit possibility in It All Begins with 'I': the New Rules of Thinking.  Whether it's finishing school, finding a new job, adjusting to retirement or being stuck at a personal crossroads, It All Begins with ... Read more

BATTY BWOY by Max-Arthur Mantle

Airs at: Thu, 06/04/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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The coming of age story of Mark Palmer, a black, gay, Jamaican where "Boom bye bye inna batty bwoy head" (meaning, gunshot to gay men) has replaced the island's motto "Out of many one people." The son of an overbearing, absentee, neglectful mother, he is thrust in an enviro... Read more