Podcasts
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In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Matisak A celebrated veteran of film, television, and the Broadway stage, Sheryl Lee Ralph won an Emmy Award, a Critic’s Choice Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her… more
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James McBride is the author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird , “a brilliant romp of a novel” ( The New York Times Book Review ) in which a young boy born into slavery joins abolitionist John Brown’s doomed crusade. He is… more
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R. Eric Thomas is the author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul America , a bestselling essay collection that tackles just what it means to be an “other” in the maelstrom of modern America. For four… more
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• Recorded Jul 20, 2023In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Matisak In American Whitelash , Wesley Lowery examines the cyclical pattern of violence that marks each watershed moment of racial progress in this country, most recently… more
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• Recorded Jun 27, 2023 Explicit ContentIn conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition Central Park birder Christian Cooper is the host and consulting producer on the National Geographic channel’s Extraordinary Birder and is on the board of directors of… more
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• Recorded Jun 26, 2023In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Referred to by acclaimed author and academic Michael Eric Dyson as “one of the most important works of history to come across my desk in a long time,” Blair LM Kelley’s Black Folk: The Roots of the Black… more
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In conversation with Alexandra Auder, author of Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir Publishing industry veteran Christine Pride has held a variety of editorial positions at Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, and Crown, among other publishing companies. In… more
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Geraldine Brooks won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her novel March , an “honorable, elegant, and true” ( The Wall Street Journal ) retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women from the point of view of the titular family’s absent patriarch. Her… more
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• Recorded Jun 6, 2023In conversation with Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts Kwame Alexander is the author of The Crossover , a “beautifully measured novel” ( The New York Times Book Review ) that follows twin brother basketball stars coming to terms with the world.… more
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In conversation with poet Phillip B. Williams Airea D. Matthews is the 2022–23 Philadelphia Poet Laureate and directs the poetry program at Bryn Mawr College. Her collection Simulacra won the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and her work… more
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In conversation with podcaster and author Kelsey McKinney “America’s most talented comic writer” ( The New Republic ), Samantha Irby is the author of four essay collections, including Wow, No Thank you. ; Meaty; New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions… more
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• Recorded May 15, 2023A contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and The 1619 Project, Linda Villarosa has won numerous awards for articles concerning issues of Black mother and infant health, medical myths, America’s hidden HIV epidemic, environmental… more
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In conversation with Abra Lee Camille T. Dungy is the author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History , a debut personal essay collection that was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She… more
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• Recorded Apr 27, 2023In conversation with Mia Bay Chad L. Williams is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era , winner of the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians. The Samuel J.… more
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In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition The former longtime CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Debra Lee currently serves on the boards of several of the world’s leading corporations, including… more
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• Recorded Mar 7, 2023Sandra Shaber Memorial Lecture In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Matisak The Sum of Us , Heather McGhee’s 2021 odyssey across the American landscape of inequality, won wide acclaim for its empathetic and… more
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• Recorded Mar 1, 2023In conversation with Sharon G. Flake Camonghne Felix is the author of Build Yourself a Boat , “an exquisite and thoughtful” ( Bustle ) poetry collection that was longlisted for the National Book Award in poetry and shortlisted for the Lambda… more
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In conversation with Airea D. Matthews A “powerful work of lyric art” and “tour de force indictment of the carceral industrial state” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Reginald Dwayne Betts ’ poetry collection Felon won the NAACP Image Award,… more
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Jamila Minnicks’ debut novel Moonrise Over New Jessup tells the story of a 1950s-era, all-Black Alabama town that is resistant to desegregation and the opposing political viewpoints that threaten a young couple’s burgeoning romance. Praised by… more
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In conversation with Elias Rodriques Referred to by Carmen Maria Machado as “all blood and nerve and near-unbearable beauty,” Joseph Earl Thomas ’ Sink is a coming-of-age memoir that chronicles the author’s escape from an upbringing of… more
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