Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

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April 23, 2015 Celebrating Earth Day: How Empowering Women Leads to Protecting the Environment in West Africa
Author Miranda Paul and Gambian activist Isatou Ceesay will talk about the struggles and successes of getting sustainable development projects off the ground in Gambian villages.
In the late 1990s, Isatou Ceesay teamed up with Peace Corps volunteer Peggy Sedlak and four Gambian women to tackle the growing "plastic-bag problem." Ridiculed at first, the women (and a few men) have now recycled countless plastic bags and formed a cooperative organization promoting health, education and environmental issues. Isatou Ceesay was the 2012 recipient of a "World of Difference" award from The International Alliance for Women.
Miranda Paul is the author of One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia. Over the past decade, she has traveled to the Gambia as a volunteer, teacher, and fair trade and literacy advocate.
Presented in partnership with Baltimore GreenWorks.
Recorded On: Wednesday, April 22, 2015
1 hr 6 min
April 16, 2015 David O. Stewart, Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America
In Madison's Gift, David Stewart restores James Madison, sometimes overshadowed by his fellow Founders, to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation.
Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, Madison cared more about achieving results than taking the credit. To reach his lifelong goal of a self-governing constitutional republic, he blended his talents with those of key partners -- George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe. His final partnership with Dolley, whom he married in middle age, sustained him through his political rise, his presidency, and a fruitful retirement.
A former attorney, David O. Stewart is the author of three nonfiction books -- The Summer of 1787, Impeached, and American Emperor -- and the novel, The Lincoln Deception.
Writers LIVE programs are made possible in part by a generous donation from PNC Bank.
Recorded On: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
1 hr 7 min
April 08, 2015 Ronald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. For the next four years, an eerie sense of normalcy would settle over Paris as the occupiers and the occupied struggled to coexist. Using a vast range of sources, Ronald Rosbottom chronicles the important and minor challenges of day-to-day life under Nazi occupation and the many forms of resistance that took shape during that period.
Ronald C. Rosbottom is the Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Professor of French and European Studies at Amherst College.
Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a generous gift from PNC Bank.
Recorded On: Tuesday, April 7, 2015
1 hr 7 min
April 02, 2015 Brown Lecture: Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill talks about his book, The Book of Negroes, which is being reissued in paperback to coincide with the BET miniseries airing in February.
In The Book of Negroes, Hill brings to life the journey of Aminata Diallo, an African, a South Carolinian, a New Yorker, a Nova Scotian, and a Londoner, as she travels from continent to continent and from freedom to enslavement. She becomes the embodiment of the African diaspora.
Lawrence Hill is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction. The Book of Negroes (formerly published as Someone Knows My Name) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The BET miniseries, directed by Clement Virgo, was filmed in South Africa and Canada and stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., Jane Alexander, Louis Gossett, Jr., and Aunjanue Ellis.
The Brown Lecture Series is supported by a generous grant from the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation.

Recorded On: Wednesday, April 1, 2015
38 min
April 01, 2015 Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
In Shrinks, Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, shares the story of psychiatry's origins and the checkered history of useless or harmful treatments that made psychiatry the black sheep of medicine. Lieberman describes psychiatry's scientific rehabilitation, beginning after WWII, with the discipline's slow embrace of psychopharmacology, genetics, and neuroscience, and how it has been transformed into an evidence-based profession.
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman is former president of the American Psychiatric Association, Chairman of Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Psychiatrist in Chief at Columbia University Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Writers LIVE programs are made possible in part by a generous grant from PNC Bank.

Recorded On: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
57 min
March 26, 2015 A. Rod Womack, Redwood
Redwood is a gripping true story of a once successful and popular Baltimore restaurant known for its great cuisine, musical entertainment, atmosphere, and lavish celebrity events.
The three young entrepreneurs who bought the business worked tirelessly to make the restaurant the top dining experience. The story takes many twists and turns, leading the owners through a maze of challenges along the way. It's a journey filled with humor, intrigue, mystery, conflict -- even a serial killer and a con-artist.
A graduate of UMBC, A. Rod Womack is an entrepreneur who has worked for the Baltimore City Public Schools. Redwood is his first book.
Writers LIVE programs are made possible in part by a generous grant from PNC Bank.
Recorded On: Wednesday, March 25, 2015
57 min
March 26, 2015 SLRC Annual Genealogy Lecture : Avoiding Pitfalls in African-Native American Genealogy
Angela Walton-Raji is a nationally known author and African American and Native American genealogist. She hosts a weekly African Roots Podcast devoted to African American genealogy news, methods, and events. She is one of the founders of AfriGeneas.com, the oldest online website for African American genealogy. She is the only genealogist in the nation to present regular genealogy lectures at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in both the Washington D.C. and New York facilities. Her book, Black Indian Genealogy Research, is the first and only book to address the documentation of African Americans with ties to Native Americans within the family structure.
Recorded On: Saturday, March 21, 2015
27 min
March 26, 2015 SLRC Annual Genealogy Lecture : Avoiding Pitfalls in African-Native American Genealogy
Angela Walton-Raji is a nationally known author and African American and Native American genealogist. She hosts a weekly African Roots Podcast devoted to African American genealogy news, methods, and events. She is one of the founders of AfriGeneas.com, the oldest online website for African American genealogy. She is the only genealogist in the nation to present regular genealogy lectures at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in both the Washington D.C. and New York facilities. Her book, Black Indian Genealogy Research, is the first and only book to address the documentation of African Americans with ties to Native Americans within the family structure.
27 min
March 26, 2015 SLRC Annual Genealogy Lecture : Exploring the Rolls for Black-Indian History: From the Dawes Rolls to the Guion Miller Rolls
Angela Walton-Raji is a nationally known author and African American and Native American genealogist. She hosts a weekly African Roots Podcast devoted to African American genealogy news, methods, and events. She is one of the founders of AfriGeneas.com, the oldest online website for African American genealogy. She is the only genealogist in the nation to present regular genealogy lectures at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in both the Washington D.C. and New York facilities. Her book, Black Indian Genealogy Research, is the first and only book to address the documentation of African Americans with ties to Native Americans within the family structure.
Recorded On: Saturday, March 21, 2015
1 hr 3 min
March 26, 2015 SLRC Annual Genealogy Lecture : Exploring the Rolls for Black-Indian History: From the Dawes Rolls to the Guion Miller Rolls
Angela Walton-Raji is a nationally known author and African American and Native American genealogist. She hosts a weekly African Roots Podcast devoted to African American genealogy news, methods, and events. She is one of the founders of AfriGeneas.com, the oldest online website for African American genealogy. She is the only genealogist in the nation to present regular genealogy lectures at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in both the Washington D.C. and New York facilities. Her book, Black Indian Genealogy Research, is the first and only book to address the documentation of African Americans with ties to Native Americans within the family structure.
1 hr 3 min

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