Podcast Episodes featuring Toni Morrison

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The power of words, black history month & Toni Morrison

Thick & Thin - February 06, 2020 22:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
This episode of Thick & Thin is all about the power of WORDS, books & written thought. I explore the life of Toni Morrison and the waves she made in literature, particularly in black American literature. We pay homage to Toni, her courage and her talent, as well as discussing my own personal expe...

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Ta-Nehisi Coates / Toni Morrison

Fresh Air - January 02, 2020 21:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 32.7K ratings
Our Best of the Decade series continues with two of the most influential writers of our time. In 2015, Coates discussed his book 'Between the World and Me.' Formatted as a letter to his son, Coates writes about the different forms of violence young African Americans face on the street, in school...

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Toni Morrison

Open Source with Christopher Lydon - September 04, 2019 13:37 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1K ratings
We’ve been reflecting on Toni Morrison and her legacy, and so we’re thinking of Chris’s interview with her back on The Connection. Here from our archives is that interview, which was occasioned by Morrison’s 1997 ... The post Toni Morrison appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

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Toni Morrison and Harold Prince: Immortal Voices

What It Takes® - August 26, 2019 07:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 913 ratings
Toni Morrison was a novelist and Nobel Prize Winner, who carved a space for African-American women’s voices and stories. Hal Prince was a producer & director, who had a hand in shaping Broadway for over five decades. These two giants of American culture recently died, just days apart. In 2007 th...

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Remembering Toni Morrison: the iconic author reflects on family, race and coping with personal tragedy

Writers and Company - August 18, 2019 16:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
The Nobel Prize-winning American author is being celebrated around the world following her death on August 5th, age 88. She spoke to Eleanor Wachtel in 2012.

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“The Oprah Winfrey Show”: Toni Morrison

Oprah's Super Soul - August 14, 2019 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 27.5K ratings
In memory of legendary author Toni Morrison, this encore presentation of an “Oprah Winfrey Show” episode features an interview with the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. They discusses one of Oprah’s all-time favorite books, Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.” Oprah and Morrison are joined by fo...

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Visionary: Toni Morrison

1A - August 08, 2019 22:38 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 4.1K ratings
"It is not an understatement to suggest Black studies as a standalone field has a lot to do with the work that Toni Morrison did at Random House," Howard University Prof. Dana Williams told us. We spoke with Williams and Paula Giddings, professor emerita at Smith College, about Morrison's legacy...

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Reflecting on the Literature and Legacy of Toni Morrison

KQED's Forum - August 07, 2019 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 536 ratings
Toni Morrison, acclaimed author of "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and "The Bluest Eye," died on Monday at the age of 88. The first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Morrison's work brought center-stage black identity and womanhood in America, and her writing style echoed ...

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Rare interview with Toni Morrison on the importance of reading and writing

Ideas - August 06, 2019 16:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratings
In this personal 2002 interview, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison talks candidly about her life as an African-American writer with IDEAS producer Marilyn Powell.

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Toni Morrison and Angela Davis on Connecting for Progress

Library Talks - February 02, 2016 15:06 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratings
We’re kicking off Black History Month with Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who came to NYPL in 2010 for a conversation with activist and author Angela Davis. In this wide-ranging talk, Morrison and Davis discuss Frederick Douglass, education, and liberation.

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Toni Morrison with Farah Jasmine Griffin: 92Y Talks Episode 43

92NY Talks - June 04, 2015 23:43 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 211 ratings
In an exclusive New York appearance, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison reads from and discusses her new novel, God Help the Child, a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of an adult. She is introduced by Chirlane McCray, First Lady of New York City, and interviewe...

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You Don't Know Nothing: Toni Morrison and Junot Díaz LIVE from the NYPL

Library Talks - February 06, 2014 15:48 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratings
LIVE closes the Fall 2013 season with a conversation between 2013 Library Lion Junot Diaz and the writer who most influenced him, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison. "I think the most sustained love of mine," Diaz has said, "the one that's carried me through all these years, is my relationship wi...

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Toni Morrison - Beloved

World Book Club - April 07, 2012 19:06 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 332 ratings
World Book Club celebrates the 25th anniversary of the publication of that modern classic novel Beloved with another chance to hear the programme with American writer Toni Morrison. In 2009 Toni Morrison came to the South Bank Arts Centre beside the River Thames in London to talk to a packed aud...

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Toni Morrison - Beloved

World Book Club - April 07, 2012 19:06 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 332 ratings
World Book Club celebrates the 25th anniversary of the publication of that modern classic novel Beloved with another chance to hear the programme with American writer Toni Morrison. In 2009 Toni Morrison came to the South Bank Arts Centre beside the River Thames in London to talk to a packed au...

Books written by Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison

869 Episodes - 337 pages - ★★★★ - 1.65K ratings

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison

1 Episode - 110 pages - ★★★★ - 3.43K ratings