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Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 1
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 44:14
The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 02:27
Biographer Valerie Boyd talks about the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 28:17
This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha...
- Added: Feb 11, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Apr 27, 2009
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 1
Novelist Alice Walker discusses the theme of revival in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Edward P. Jones, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for THE KNOWN WORLD, writes about the lives of African-Americans in his native Washington DC in ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN, WPSU-FM, WDCV, and CKMO
- Added: Mar 02, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Nanci Olesen describes her (very positive) reaction to Rise Up Singing, Black Women Writers on Motherhood
- Added: Feb 16, 2006
- Length: 01:34
A drop-in segment of a longer interview on the late August Wilson. He talks about his creative process in this excerpt.
Bought by Public Radio Exchange and Public Interactive
- Added: Oct 05, 2005
- Length: 05:14
- Purchases: 2
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson, who is best known for his dramas about the African-American experience in the 20th Century, discusses...
Bought by WNYC, CKMO, KUT, and Public Interactive
- Added: Oct 03, 2005
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 4
