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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
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:54
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:12
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:13
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:54
David Grant is a Twin Cities-based screenwriter and playwright. He's been commissioned by the Minnesota Historical Society, Mixed Blood Theater and...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 05:28
- Purchases: 1
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 01:57:35
Academy Award Winner, Geoffrey Fletcher sits down with Artsy Fartsy Show's Barika Taheer Edwards to chat about screenwriting and the his launch of ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2012
- Length: 17:06
In this Cutting Edge Special, some of the work of late poet Louis Reyes is highlighted through live performances at WBAI and his show "Perspective"
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 01:00:03
The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.
Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 2
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...
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 9
Features a conversation with August Wilson scholar Jeannie Zeck about Wilson’s plays and the many influences on his work; the show also features pe...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 29:03
Black Men Reading is a North Minneapolis book club and study group modeled after groups that formed in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s. For more ...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 04:50
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]
- Added: Feb 29, 2012
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 2
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
Kelly Starling Lyons talks about her two new picture books, which draw on African-American history but tell stories that transcend any cultural bou...
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 04:51
Poet and fiction writer Sapphire, best-known for her novel PUSH, which became the award-winning film PRECIOUS, reads from her 2011 novel, THE KID, ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Ernest J. Gaines poses one of the most universal questions a novel can ask: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? This program features G...
Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KQED
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 5
In San Francisco, Fillmore-based Marcus Books has been a hub for the neighborhood’s black community since it opened in 1959. Founders Julian and Ra...
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 12:58
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 23:45
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 28:17
- Purchases: 1
Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:33
- Purchases: 16
Sonia Sanchez broke literary ground during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.
Bought by KENW, KISA Digital Studios, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
