Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast
853 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsPodcast offerings from the Enoch Pratt Free Library / Maryland State Library Resource Center, featuring many author's appearances at the public library of Baltimore, MD.
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Eileen Rockefeller
September 26, 2013 10:33 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBA daughter of American royalty, Eileen Rockefeller is the first woman in the Rockefeller family to write a memoir of growing up with fame and fortune and finding her own voice within its storied history. The great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and the daughter of David and Peggy Rockefeller, she reveals what it was like to grow up as the youngest of six children and 22 cousins in one of the world's most famous families. Eileen learned in childhood that great wealth and fame could ope...
Joanna Pearson and Megan McShea
September 25, 2013 10:10 - 47 minutes - 21.6 MBJoanna Pearson's first book of poetry, Oldest Mortal Myth (2012), was chosen by Marilyn Nelson for the 2012 Donald Justice Prize. Her poems have appeared in various publications, including Best New Poets, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, The New Criterion, and Subtropics. She is also the author of a young adult novel, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills (2011), and is currently completing a second young adult novel. She works as a resident physician at Johns Hopkins. Megan McShea's writing has rece...
Thomas Glave
September 24, 2013 14:59 - 1 hour - 35 MBThomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and exploration of taboo, politically volatile topics. The award-winning author's new collection, Among the Bloodpeople, contains all the power and daring of his earlier writing but ventures even further into the political, the personal, and the secret. Each essay reveals a passionate commitment to social justice and human truths. Whatever the subject, Glave expresses the observations of a global citizen with the voice of a poet. Thomas Gl...
Flute & Lute
September 24, 2013 10:51 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBGrammy-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane is joined by flutist Mindy Rosenfeld, a founding member of the Baltimore Consort, in a concert featuring period flutes, lutes, fife, harp, and bagpipes. Recorded On: Saturday, September 21, 2013
An Evening with Allison Leotta and Sujata Massey
September 19, 2013 11:37 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MBAllison Leotta and Sujata Massey talk about the writing life and read from their new books. Former federal prosecutor Allison Leotta's third novel, Speak of the Devil, features her series heroine, sex-crimes prosecutor Anna Curtis. On the same night that she gets engaged, one of Anna's cases takes a vicious turn when a man named "Diablo" leads an attack on a brothel. Soon Anna's routine human trafficking case becomes an investigation of MS-13, one of the country's most brutal street gangs...
MK Asante
September 17, 2013 13:34 - 1 hour - 28.7 MBMK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents. A little more than a decade later, he found himself alone in North Philadelphia -- his mother in a mental hospital, his father gone, his older brother in prison on the other side of the country -- forced to find his own way. Asante sought refuge in the poetry of hip-hop giants -- from Tupac to Jay-Z to Nas -- and later in the words of Kerouac, Whitman, Orwell, and even the diary of his own mother. Buck: A Memoir is the unforgettable story ...
Harp Concert - Jasmine Hogan and Peggy Houng
September 17, 2013 13:26 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBJasmine Hogan and Peggy Houng, students of Professor Ruth Inglefield at the Peabody Institute of Music, perform in a monthly recital in the Fine Arts & Music Department. Works by J.S. Bach, Franz Liszt, Ludwig Spohr and other composers are played by the harpists. Recorded On: Saturday, September 14, 2013
Simple Measures: Preserving Family Records and Other Valuable Documents
September 16, 2013 11:21 - 1 hour - 39.2 MBA Genealogy Circle Fall Program Best practices for preserving paper-based materials and objects: books, paper documents, photographs and more. Topics will include: proper storage and handling methods/techniques, appropriate environmental issues, and disaster preparedness. Martha Edgerton is a Preservation Expert and Book Conservator with over 38 years of experience. Martha has worked at the Johns Hopkins University as a Book Conservator and as supervisor of the Enoch Pratt Free Library'...
Jamie Moyer
September 16, 2013 11:12 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBJust Tell Me I Can't: How Jamie Moyer Defied the Radar Gun and Defeated Time is pitcher Jamie Moyer's memoir, (written with Larry Platt). Longtime baseball fans have known Jamie Moyer's name for more than 25 years because he pitched in the big leagues through four different decades beginning in the mid-1980s. Moyer's won-lost record actually got better as he got older. He is only a few wins shy of 300 for his career. Just Tell Me I Can't provides a frank, intimate look at the mystery and ...
Mencken Day 2013
September 09, 2013 10:59 - 1 hour - 33.9 MBThe 2013 Mencken Memorial Lecture - "An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine (with a guest appearance by H. L. Mencken," presented by Dr. Howard Markel. Dr. Markel is the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.He is also a professor of psychiatry, public health, history and pediatrics. He has been a regular contributor for National P...
Piotr Gwiazda and Joseph Ross
August 12, 2013 12:00 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBPiotr Gwiazda has published two books of poetry, Messages (2012) and Gagarin Street (2005), as well as a critical study, James Merrill and W.H. Auden: Homosexuality and Poetic Influence (2007). His translation of Polish poet Grzegorz Wróblewski’s book of prose poems, Kopenhaga, is forthcoming from Zephyr Press. He was Writer in Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington in the fall of 2008. He teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Joseph Ross is the author of two...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
August 01, 2013 09:11 - 1 hour - 40.4 MBAs teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. Ifemelu goes to America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in L...
Simeon Booker
July 25, 2013 11:05 - 1 hour - 34.5 MBWriting for Jet and Ebony for 53 years, longer than any other journalist, Washington bureau chief Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the civil r4ights movement. In Shocking the Conscience, Booker tracks the freedom struggle not from the usual ignition points but starts with a massive voting rights rally in Mound Bayou, Mississippi in 1955. He vowed that lynchings would not be ignored beyond the black press, and his coverage of Emmett Till's death galvaniz...
Daniel James Brown
July 18, 2013 10:35 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MBDaniel James Brown tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin. Brown happened on this little-known piece of history whi...
Kiese Laymon
July 17, 2013 14:42 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBIn 2013, in a nationally televised contest, 14-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson is asked to use the word "niggardly" in a sentence. He has a meltdown and storms off, and the video of his outburst goes viral. City is sent to stay with his grandmother in Melahatchie, Mississippi where a girl named Baize Shepard has recently disappeared. City is distracted by a strange novel written by an unknown author, titled Long Division and narrated by a boy named City Coldson living in Melahatchie in 1985...
Jessica Anya Blau and Sarah Pekkanen
June 27, 2013 09:22 - 43 minutes - 19.9 MBJessica Anya Blau's new novel, The Wonder Bread Summer, tells the story of 20-year-old Allie Dodgson who's working part-time in a dress shop which turns out to be a front for a dangerous drug-dealing business. Out of her element, Allie finds herself stealing a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine and going on the lam. Jessica Blau is the author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and Drinking Closer to Home. Sarah Pekkanen is the author of three previous novels: The Opposite of Me, Skipping a...
Catherine Tuerk
June 20, 2013 09:35 - 1 hour - 30.1 MB"When my son came out to me, I was deeply fearful that he could never be happy, and I felt profound sorrow." Thus began one woman's extraordinary, silence-breaking journey. Catherine Tuerk set out to educate herself and others about gay people. She became a leader in PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), wrote articles for various publications, and appeared on television and radio. Mom Knows is a collection of her writings over the past two decades. A psychotherapist i...
Rick Atkinson
June 19, 2013 10:26 - 1 hour - 29.7 MBRick Atkinson is the reigning chronicler of World War II. More than 15 years ago he set out to write the "Liberation Trilogy," the most comprehensive story of the Allied Forces in Europe and North Africa. An Arm at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, the first in the series, won a Pulitzer Prize for history and was a New York Times bestseller, as was the second book, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. The Guns at Last Light tells the story of the final year of...
Racial Differences in Arrests
June 18, 2013 10:04 - 1 hour - 39 MBJoin us for a conversation with two leading experts on race and community-police partnerships. Baltimore's own Lieutenant Colonel Melvin Russell and national scholar Dr. Phillip Goff will address some provocative issues: What are the underlying causes of racial differences in arrests? What role does implicit bias play? Is it possible for communities and police to work together in a meaningful way? Joe Jones, executive director of the Center for Urban Families and OSI-Baltimore board member...
Passager: a Press for Writers Over 50
June 13, 2013 14:07 - 1 hour - 45 MBPassager Journal, based in Baltimore, has been publishing writing by older authors for over two decades. Editors Mary Azrael and Kendra Kopelke host an evening of readings by poets whose work they’ve recently published, and talk about Passager Journal and Passager Books. The featured poet at this event was Moira Egan, who was introduced by Clarinda Harriss. Other poets who read from their work include Shirley Brewer Steve Matanle Marianna Busching Jim Smith Elisavietta Ritchie Ross...
Walter Mosley
June 12, 2013 13:37 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBWhen Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress, he captured the attention of hundreds of thousands of readers. Eleven books later, Easy Rawlins is one of the few private eyes in contemporary crime fiction who can be called iconic and immortal. In the incendiary and fast-paced Little Green, he returns from the brink of death to investigate the dark side of L.A.'s 1960s hippie haven, the Sunset Strip. Walter Mosley is the a...
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
June 05, 2013 13:03 - 1 hour - 30.3 MBFreeman takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Sam, a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army, decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and sets out on foot for the war-torn South in search of his wife Tilda. Meanwhile Sam's wife is being forced to walk at gunpoint with her owner and other slaves from Mississippi to Arkansas. A third character, Prudence, is a fearless, headstrong white woman of means ...
Innovation Expo: DIY in Maryland
June 03, 2013 12:17 - 1 hour - 37.1 MBJohn Shea and Piper Watson from the Station North Tool Library talk about their experience developing the Tool Library over the course of a year - the doors now having been open for two months. They also share how they garnered support from the community, area organizations, and other lending libraries to set up this lending model to be a success and moving towards self-sustainability. Mary Murphy from the Center for a New American Dream introduces people to New Dream's how-to guides and ...
Medea Benjamin
May 23, 2013 15:19 - 1 hour - 34.4 MBIn 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than 50 aerial drones; ten years later, it had nearly 7,500. Drones are already a $5 billion business in the U.S. alone; the U.S. Air Force now trains more drone "pilots" than bomber and fighter pilots combined. Medea Benjamin provides the first extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who pilots these unmanned planes, and what are the legal and moral implications. She also looks at what activists, lawyers, and scientists...
30 Women, 30 Stories: Journeys to Recovery and Transformation
May 16, 2013 12:13 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBIn celebration of the 30th anniversary of Marian House, a traveling exhibition profiles Marian House alumnae and their remarkable journeys from dependence to independence. Accompanying Community Dialogue: The Disease of Addiction: Treatment Not Incarceration. Recorded On: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The Peabody Bassoon Studio
May 13, 2013 12:40 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBThe ensemble plays an original arrangement by Peabody faculty member Phillip Kolker of the Quartet in d minor by Georg Phillipp Telemann. Also on the program are several arrangements of music by the “Bubonic Bassoon Quartet” including “I Was a Teenage Bassoon Player” and “Entrance and Polka of the Bassoon Players.” Recorded On: Saturday, May 11, 2013
F. Michael Higginbotham
May 09, 2013 15:08 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBWhen the U.S. inaugurated its first African American president in 2009, many wondered if the country had finally become a post-racial society. In Ghosts of Jim Crow, F. Michael Higginbotham argues that we're far from that imagined utopia. Indeed, the shadows of Jim Crow era laws and attitudes continue to perpetuate systemic prejudice and racism in the 21st century. Using history as a road map, Higginbotham arrives at a provocative solution for ridding the nation of Jim Crow's ghosts, sugges...
Salon Concert - Five Guys Wind Quintet
May 06, 2013 09:18 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBOn the program are the quintet for winds Op. 43 by Carl Nielson and Samuel Barber's "Summer Music" woodwind quintet. Recorded On: Saturday, May 4, 2013
The Judges and the Judged
May 03, 2013 10:20 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBJudges of the Poetry Contest join the finalists for this poetry reading, hosted by Laura Shovan, editor of Little Patuxent Review, and by Pratt librarians. Lori Powell is our 2013 Contest winner. Steven Leyva, Rachel Brown, Jared Fischer, and Alex Vidiani are finalists. Linda Joy Burke, Gerry LaFemina (pictured), Laura Shovan (pictured), and Patricia Jakovich VanAmburg were judges. Learn more about the Poetry Contest and its winner. Recorded On: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Salon Concert - Solomon Eichner
April 30, 2013 09:34 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBBaltimore native and Peabody graduate student Solomon Eichner performs a program of piano music by Beethoven, Liszt and Prokofiev. Recorded On: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Michael T. Klare
April 26, 2013 10:29 - 1 hour - 32 MBThe world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion -- a crisis that encompasses shortages of oil and coal, copper and cobalt, water and arable land. With all the earth's accessible areas already being exploited, the desperate hunt for supplies has now reached the final frontiers. The Race for What's Left takes us from the Arctic to war zones to deep ocean floors, from a Russian submarine planting the country's flag under the North Pole to the large-scale buying up of Africa...
Old Songs
April 26, 2013 10:24 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBThe Old Songs group has been translating archaic Greek poetry and putting it to old-time American folk and blues music since 2002. They have released CDs of versions of the poetry of Sappho, Archilochus, Hipponax, Alcman, and many other poets. Old Songs members are Liz Downing (voice, banjo, and percussion), Mark Jickling (voice, banjo, mandolin, and guitar), and Chris Mason (acoustic bass guitar). Listen to Old Songs here. Recorded On: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
CityLit Festival - Nonfiction Headliner Jamal Joseph
April 16, 2013 09:45 - 50 minutes - 22.9 MBJamal Joseph discusses his memoir, Panther Baby. In the 1960s, he exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today, he’s chair of Columbia's School of the Arts film division. Joseph’s personal odyssey—from the streets of Harlem to Riker’s Island and Leavenworth to the halls of Columbia—is as gripping as it is inspiring. Joseph is an activist, urban guerrilla, the FBI’s most wanted fugitive, drug addict, drug counselor, convict, writer, poet, filmmaker, fat...
CityLit Festival - Two In One: Fiction With Jen Michalski And Terese Svoboda
April 16, 2013 09:43 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBJen Michalski is author of the novel The Tide King, winner of the 2012 Big Moose Prize, the short story collections From Hereand Close Encounters, and the novella collection Could You Be With Her Now. She is the founding editor of the literary quarterly jmww, a co-host of The 510 Readings and the biannual Lit Show, and interviews writers at The Nervous Breakdown. She also is the editor of the anthology City Sages: Baltimore, which Baltimore magazine called a "Best of Baltimore" in 2010. Her...
CityLit Festival - Elder And Archivist: A Cave Canem Reunion
April 16, 2013 09:38 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBAfaa Michael Weaver is the author of eleven previous poetry collections, including Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems,My Father’s Geography, and The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005. He is Alumnae Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. Weaver is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Pew fellowship, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright scholar appointment, among other honors. The Government of Nature i...
CityLit Festival - Importance Of Place: Tim Wendel And Leigh Newman
April 16, 2013 09:34 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MBTim Wendel’s books include Summer of ’68, High Heat, Red Rain, and Castro’s Curveball. A writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University, his stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, and Esquire. His newest release, Habana Libre, is a novella set in Cuba and Baltimore. Get a sneak peak before the book's official publication on May 1, 2013. Leigh Newman’s memoir Still Points North—set in Maryland and Alaska—is hot off the press from Dial Press. She is the Depu...
CityLit Festival - Fiction Headliner George Saunders
April 16, 2013 09:30 - 1 hour - 28.7 MBGeorge Saunders is the author of three collections of short stories: the bestselling Pastoralia, set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape; CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; and In Persuasion Nation, one of three finalists for the 2006 STORY Prize for best short story collection of the year. The New York Times Magazine called Saunders's latest collection, Tenth of December, "the best book you'll read this year." In ...
CityLit Festival - Poetry Headliners Stanley Plumly And Dick Allen
April 16, 2013 09:22 - 1 hour - 36.1 MBPoets laureate Stanley Plumly of Maryland and Dick Allen of Connecticut read their latest work. Plumly is the author of Orphan Hours and is recipient of the 2010 John William Corrington Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature). Allen is the author of Present Vanishing and recipient of the 2013 New Criterion Poetry Prize, one of the country's most prominent prizes for a book-length collection of poems that pays close attention to form. Introduced by Michael Salcman, poet and critic, Pas...
CityLit Festival - Maryland Humanities Council’s Letters About Literature
April 16, 2013 09:11 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBLetters About Literature is a national writing contest for students in grades 4 to 10 sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The program encourages young readers to write to the author of a book expressing how that book changed their view of themselves or the world. In state program is managed by the Maryland Humanities Council. Every year at CityLit Festival, students and their families from around the state gather to recognize regional winners. Special Guest Aut...
Fiscal Sponsorship 101
April 08, 2013 11:27 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBFiscal sponsorship allows a nonprofit organization (the “fiscal sponsor”) to provide administrative services, access to 501 (c)(3) status and capacity building support for groups or individuals engaged in work that relates to the fiscal sponsor’s mission. The program is presented by Keith Gavazzi of FusionPartnerships, Inc., a local nonprofit fiscal sponsor for grassroots community based projects and programs working for social change in Baltimore. Recorded On: Friday, April 5, 2013
Susan M. Schneider
April 03, 2013 14:35 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBActions have consequences -- and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are important, few have heard there's a science of consequences, with principles that affect us every day and applications everywhere -- at home, at work, and at school. Despite their variety, consequences appear to follow a common set of scientific principles and share some similar effects in the brain. Further, scientists have demonstrated that lear...
Sarah Erdreich
March 28, 2013 09:28 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MBInextricably connected to issues of autonomy, privacy, and sexuality, the abortion debate remains home base for the culture wars in America. Yet, as Sarah Erdreich argues in Generation Roe, there is more common ground than meets the eye in favor of choice. Erdreich tells the stories of those who risk their lives to pursue careers in the abortion field. She also outlines the legislative battles that are being waged against abortion rights around the country. A women's health advocate, Sarah ...
Elaine G. Breslaw
March 27, 2013 14:04 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MBIn this overview of health and healing in early America, Elaine G. Breslaw describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions. Breslaw examines "ethnic borrowings" of early American medicine and the tension between trained doctors and the lay public. Orthodox medicine didn't take hold over other healers until the early 20th century when germ theory finally migrated from Europe to the United States and American medical education achieved professional standing. Elaine Breslaw taug...
Antonia Randolph
March 22, 2013 10:13 - 1 hour - 31.3 MBHow can multiculturalism go wrong? Through extensive interviews conducted in a large Midwestern school district, Antonia Randolph explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of "colorblind multiculturalism." This provocative book challenges readers to look beyond the surface benefits of diversity and raises issues about American schools that need to be addressed. Antonia Randolph is assistant professor in the ...
Juliette Wells
March 22, 2013 09:27 - 1 hour - 33.6 MBThe first book to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her and how they create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels and life. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, the Pratt Library is proud to present this talk by Austen scholar Juliette Wells, associate professor...
Melvin A. Goodman
March 20, 2013 13:11 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBIn 1961 President Eisenhower warned Americans about the dangers of a "military industrial complex." Today, as more and more Americans fall into poverty and the global economy spirals downward, the U.S. is spending more on the military than ever before. Melvin Goodman, a 24-year veteran of the CIA, argues that U.S. military spending is making Americans poorer and less secure, while undermining our political standing in the world. Drawing on his first-hand experience with war planners and int...
Legacy of Hope: The Marian Anderson Story
March 18, 2013 12:05 - 1 hour - 29.4 MBMarian Anderson (1897–1993) was an African American singer who overcame both poverty and the blatant racism of her day to become an international opera star. She may be best remembered now for her historic 1939 performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In the crowd that day was 10-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. Sabrina Coleman Clark, operatic soprano and educator, celebrates the life of this true American heroine in “Legacy of Hope: The Marian Anderson Story.” Ms. Coleman Clark...
Taiye Selasi
March 15, 2013 10:09 - 1 hour - 30.3 MBKweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. In Ghana Must Go, Taiye Selasi charts the Sais' circuitous journey to one another as Kweku's children gather at their mother's new home. What is revealed in their coming together is the story of how they came apart: the hearts broken, the lies told, the crimes com...
Steven Gimbel
March 14, 2013 13:46 - 1 hour - 36.6 MBIs relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein's revolutionary theory by calling it "Jewish science," a charge typical of the ideological excesses of Hitler and his followers. Philosopher of science Steven Gimbel explores the many meanings of this provocative phrase and considers whether there is any sense in which Einstein's theory of relativity is Jewish. Einstein's Jewish Science intertwines science, history, philosophy, theology, and politics in fresh and fascinating ways t...
Jared A. Ball and Todd S. Burroughs
March 13, 2013 15:06 - 1 hour - 31 MBThis collection of essays by black scholars and activists, edited by Jared Ball and Todd Burroughs, is a critical response to Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Though lauded by many, Marable's book was debated and denounced by others as a flawed biography, full of conjecture and errors and lacking in new factual context. Dr. Jared A. Ball is associate professor of communication studies at Morgan State University. Dr. Todd S. Burroughs is...