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Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KWMR-FM
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 3
One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez, reads from her 2010 books, a collection of poetry called MORNING HAIKU...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and...
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson explores the under-reported story of the mass movements of African Americans from the South to t...
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Poet, critic, and scholar, Evie Shockley, reads from her two poetry collections, A HALF-RED SEA and THE NEW BLACK. She discusses how her work pays ...
- Added: Sep 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 23:45
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solita...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WCAI / WNAN
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Terrance Hayes reads from his 2010 National Book Award-winning poetry collection LIGHTHEAD, and discusses how true-life escapades inspire his poetr...
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
The Symphony, an African-American poetry collective, comprised of John Murillo, Randall Horton, Reginald Betts and Marcus Jackson, formed over a sh...
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 29:00
The late Gwendolyn Brooks shaped countless writers following her long poetic career. This episode looks back on her life as the first African-Amer...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
An hour-long program featuring performances of songs with lyrics by author Langston Hughes, including recordings by Nina Simone, June Christy, Jame...
- Added: Jan 22, 2011
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 5
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
Poet Cornelius Eady reads from his acclaimed 2001 collection, BRUTAL IMAGINATION, about the fictional black man whom Susan Smith, the mother who dr...
Bought by CKMO
- Added: Feb 20, 2006
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
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
