Black Book Talk

Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell S Jackson and

his family made to keep safe—to stay alive—in their community, a small

black Portland neighborhood blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and

governmental neglect.

Mitchell explores the Portland of h...

Black Book Talk co-hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O. B. Hill and Patricia Welch

discuss what's on their bookshelves this month.  Listeners are invited to

call-in (503-231-8187) and share their current reads.

In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy

borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville,

Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a "Numbers" racket out of her

tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in o...

Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they're sick of the way

women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide

to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work online--poems, essays,

videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and...

This is a re-broadcast of the October 4 2018 edition of "Black Book Talk". 

 Guests Perry Gardner and Tamyka Miles of Multnomah County Library shared

books on their current reading list.  Among the titles discussed were:

 

Take You Wherever You Go, a Memoir, by Kenny...

An interview with Coco LaBon, author of The Legend of the Chocolate River. 

  This story recounnts the adventures of Manda, a baby elephant, and his

best friend, Mr. Crowley, a wise, old frog, as search for the legendary

Chocolate River.  Manda announces that he wants to...

Have a book you can't wait to finish?  An African-American author that you

want to introduce to the world?   Or, maybe you're looking for new titles

by Black authors?  Something to curl up with during the long winter

hours?  Then  "What I'm Reading" is the perfect "Black...

Call during this broadcast and contribute to KBOO's Fall Membership Drive. 

Give to KBOO and get a copy of Betty Before X...a powerful middle-grade

fictionalized account of the childhood activism of Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's

wife, written by their daughter Ilyasah Shaba...

This month on Black Book Talk our guest is Patricia Heard Hopson retired

librarian for Portland Public Schools.  We'll talk about the best books

we've ever read.