Black Book Talk

Everybody Reads 2026 celebrates Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 

book, Lovely One.  In addition to distributing 8,000 free copies

of Lovely One through libraries and high schools, the library also offers a

series of events related to the  program.  All are free to the pu...

New Year, new outlooks.  Emma Jackson Ford, O.B. Hill and Patricia Welch

discuss favorite titles that inspire fresh points of view.

O.B. Hill, Emma Jackson and Patricia Welch share some favorite titles. 

Reflecting their individual interests, suggestions range from classics, 

like The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson, to the recently

published, beautifully illustrated The History of We ...

In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are

just 45,000.  "We Are Each Other's Harvest" brings together essays, poems,

photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories that examine

black people’s connection to the American land f...

TEMPEST follows Veronique (a.k.a. V) who, after her parents' death in

Hurricane Katrina, moved to her MawMaw’s house in the Louisiana

countryside. MawMaw always said that Veronique needed to hide her control and

power over the wind, but one day, she has to use it to save...

As attempts to ignore, refute, or even remove

African-Americans' contributions to the American record, we at "Black

Book Talk" continue to affirm Black history and culture as expressed through

our literature.  To this end, we rebroadcast our November 2021 conversation

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Author Braendan Slocumb introduces Curtis Wilson, a cello prodigy,  in his

third mystery, The Dark Maestro.  Curtis is growing up in the Southeast D.C.

projects with a drug dealer for a father. But through determination and

talent, and the loving support of his father’s ...

Katherine Morgan is the energetic owner of  Portland's first all-romance

bookstore.  Her enthusiasm for the genre is sincere and contagious.

 Perhaps that's why this Black-woman-owned business, located on 10th

Avenue, right across from Multnomah County's Main Library, ca...