The late Randall Kenan, winner of the North Carolina Award for Literature and author of  “Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.”

The late Randall Kenan, noted author, Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, and editor of "The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin", joins D.G. to talk about the new book and Baldwin as a writer and as an important historical figure.

The late Randall Kenan, acclaimed author of "Walking on Water", a book about what it means to be black, a UNC professor, and about the “Tarbaby” term.

Chapel Hill’s William Leuchtenburg, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, leading historian of the American Presidency and frequent guest on this program, talks about selecting vice presidential candidates in history and today.

Chapel Hill’s James Peacock, Kenan Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill and his wife, the lovely and much beloved Florence, talk about his new book, “A True Lucky Jim,” their travels, her music, and his teaching, service, and scholarship.

Elaine Neil Orr, professor of English at North Carolina State University and the author of “Swimming Between Worlds”, talks about the new book and the two worlds on the American South in 1959 and the worlds of Nigeria.

Rufus Edmisten, Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee, NC Attorney General and Secretary of State, Democratic nominee for governor in 1984 and, many say, the most colorful politician in North Carolina’s last 50 years, talks about his new book, “That’s Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Heel Politics, Watergate and Public Life”

Elaine Neil Orr, professor of English at North Carolina State University and the author of “Swimming Between Worlds”, talks about the new book and the two worlds on the American South in 1959 and the worlds of Nigeria.

Gene Nichol, Boyd Tinsley distinguished professor at the UNC Law School, director of the UNC Poverty Center (2008-2015) and author of “The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina: Stories from Our Invisible Citizens.”  He talks about his new book and the consequences of rampant poverty in North Carolina.

Tim Sullivan, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, a Morehead Scholar, and former president/CEO of Ancestry.Com, talks about his experiences at the top of an emerging company and the lessons he learned