Black Book Talk

Hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O.B. Hill  and Patricia Hill Welch talk with

Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson in this rebroadcast of their

November 2010 interview.  Wilkerson discusses “The Warmth of Other Suns:

The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” a New Yor...

The US Postal Service issued a Kwanzaa Forever stamp this year. The artist,

Synthia Saint James, created the original Kwanzaa stamp in 1997.

The colorful stamp art features a young African-American woman as the

embodiment of Africa. She wears a lavender dress with a collar ...

Interview with Portland author D'Norgia Taylor re her new book, SEEDLINGS

   SEEDLINGS is a speculative/time travel novel about Seth, a beekeeper

living on the northern coast of Oregon, and Melody a collector and preserver

of heirloom seeds.  Through Melody, Seth learns how...

Author Joe L. Rempson, states:  "Division and differences marked both the

founding of our nation and the adaptation of our people. However, the fathers

of our nation's founding were able to compromise and overcome their

differences. Not so of our African American Adaptation...

Multnomah County Youth Librarian Kirby McCurtis and Library Assistant SyNova

Blackwell will share recommendations for young readers.  They will also tell

audiences about free library programs for the entire family.  Fall is family

reading time at the library.

Portland-raised author and educator Renée Watson, now based in

Harlem, is part of a collective working  to preserve and celebrate the

legacy of Langston Hughes by leasing the Harlem brownstone where he lived and

created during the last twenty years of his life. The I,T...

Before Margaret Ellen Tolbert, Ph.D., broke multiple racial barriers in the

field of science, she first had to pull herself out of poverty.

In her new book, “Resilience in the Face of Adversity,” she discusses her

journey as an orphan in segregated Virginia to becoming the ...

The Threads of Time, the Fabric of History profiles African-American

dressmakers and designers from 1850 to the present. Few Americans know that

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's wedding dress was designed and created by a

Black woman, Ann Cole Lowe.  The soon-to-be First Lady w...