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In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 07:21
- Purchases: 2
A stirring collection of patriotic music performed throughout U.S.
history by African Americans, sometimes in the face of public
hostility. Also, s...
- Added: Jun 21, 2014
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 2
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...
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- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 28:24
- Purchases: 1
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 15:03
1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]
- Added: Feb 29, 2012
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 2
Director Lee Daniels talks to Andrea Chase about making the film, PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 11:35
Poet Lucille Clifton is widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, and spirituality.
- Added: Jul 13, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 3
Poets Nikki Giovanni and Lucinda Roy discuss their roles as African American poets in contemporary America and share personal visions of the "Middl...
- Added: Apr 06, 2005
- Length: 29:51
- Purchases: 2
