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Decent People, author De'Shawn Charles Winslow

Black Book Talk ·

2024/03/07

In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon-three enigmatic siblings-are found shot to death in their home. The people of West Mills- on both sides of the canal that serves as the town's color line-are in a fre...

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We Are Each Other's Harvest by Natalie Baszile

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2024/02/01

In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. "We Are Each Other's Harvest" explores this crisis, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm...

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Holiday Gift Ideas

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2023/12/07

Hear six of our favorite book people describe their favorites this year. This should ease your gift-giving now and throughout 2024. Our guests are: ...Celeste Carey, KBOO's "An Evening of Afrotainment" ...FeLicia Elam, St John's Neighborhood Library ...Patrick Ford...

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The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living With Less

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2023/11/02

When Platt set out on her journey to live with less, she never intended to become "The Afrominimalist". She just wanted to tame the chaos in her closet! But after struggling with the austerity and whiteness of mainstream minimalism, Christine realized why minimalism of...

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"Black Book Talk" Sampler

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2023/10/05

We're featuring portions of ....a 2003 interview with internationally-recognized novelist Ernest J. Gaines regarding A Lesson Before Dying. .... a 2008 chat with then-newcomer Felicia Pride about her collection of essays The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greates...

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Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of...

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2023/09/07

Illmatic Consequences was influenced by rapper Nas’s 1994 debut album Illmatic,” which features internal rhymes and inner-city narratives based on Nas’s personal experiences. “Nas’s 1994 album ‘Illmatic’ is fundamentally a statement of self-worth. It’s not even just a co...

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Kent Ford and the "The Portland Black Panthers"

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2023/08/03

Portland is widely regarded as a liberal bastion, and yet the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” Longstanding racial tensions led to the formation of a local branch of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. Based in the city’s Albina Distric...

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From the Black Book Talk Vault: Jewell Parker Rhodes...

Black Book Talk ·

2023/07/06

Last month we interviewed Kelly McWilliams, author of Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay. She credited her mother's example as a great influence on her writing. We interviewed her mother, author Jewell Parker Rhodes, 15 years ago, so we're delighted to rebroadcast our 2008 ...

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Kelly McWilliams: Your Plantation Prom is Not Okay

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2023/06/01

Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they’ve transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people’s museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet’s mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the...

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SYMPHONY OF SECRETS by Brendan Slocum

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2023/05/04

Bern has been called to authenticate the long-lost musical masterpiece of Frederic Delaney, lauded by some as the most prolific composer since Beethoven. Bern believes he knows everything about Delaney-- the man and his music. But, he soon learns otherwise: That the geni...

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Black Men Are Precious: Poet E Ethelbert Miller

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2023/04/06

E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer, poet and literary activist. His album, "Black Men Are Precious," was a 2023 Grammy Nominee Finalist for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album. He is the author of two memoirs and several books of poetry including The Collected Poems of E. Ethelb...

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Black Women's History: It's Everywhere

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2023/03/02

We're celebrating contemporary and historic Black women whose lives have enriched the community and the world. First time guest, Dr. Carmen P. Thompson is a historian and author of The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth- Century Virginia. D...

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From the Black Book Talk Vault: J California Cooper

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2023/02/02

Described by the Los Angeles Times as "a voice for the struggles of Black women in novels and short stories prized for their folksy wisdom and original voices," J. California Cooper died last week at 82 years old. The Times continued with a quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning...

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From the Black Book Talk Vault: Mermaid Kenzie:...

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2023/01/05

“I wrote Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps to help show young (and older) readers we can all pitch in to protect the beauty of our oceans and marine life,” said Sherman. After researching environmentalism and seeing the effects of pollution, Sherman was inspired to com...

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Third Eye Books

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2022/12/01

COVID-19 ravaged many small businesses, but Third Eye Books, opened in 2019, weathered the storm. Hannah discusses the current business climate and how it affects his and other small bookstores. He discusses the services this Southeast Portland literary center offers. I...

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Are more Black books being challenged?

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2022/11/03

The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones (2019) - Banned as part of broad efforts to stamp out "critical race theory” in schools. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (1969) - Challenged frequently and banned, ostensibly for vulgarity and sexually explicit materi...

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THE VANQUISHERS by Kalynn Bayron

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2022/10/06

Everybody knows vampires have been vanquished, right? Welllll, maybe no..... Twelve-year-old Malika “Boog” Wilson and her best friends have grown up idolizing The Vanquishers, a group of masked vampire hunters who wiped out the last hoard of the undead decades ago. For ki...

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WAYS TO SHARE JOY by Renee Watson

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2022/08/29

Ryan Hart is caught in the middle. She has an older brother and a new baby sister, and she's in a friendship tug-of-war with two friends who both want to be her best best friend. How can Ryan think about being kind to a classmate who is relentless with his teasing? Or ...

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Sister Resisters: Mentoring Black Women on Campus

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2022/08/04

In Sister Resisters: Mentoring Black Women on Campus, authors Janie Victoria Ward and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood describe a mentorship model designed to advocate for Black women college students. Ward and Robinson-Wood, experts in the developmental and identity chall...

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Round-table: Hosts' Summer Favorites

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2022/07/07

History, humor, romance: These and other genres make the recommended list. Sit back, relax, sip whatever you like and ENJOY............1

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