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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Kara Newman
March 08, 2013 15:51 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MBIn The Secret Financial Life of Food, Kara Newman reveals the economic pathways that connect food to consumer, unlocking the mysteries behind culinary trends, grocery pricing, and restaurant dining. Kara Newman shows how contracts listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange can read like a menu and how market behavior can dictate global economic and culinary practice. A former board member of the Culinary Historians of New York, Kara Newman is the spirits editor for Wine Enthusiast magazine...
Clarinda Harriss & Karen Garthe
March 07, 2013 14:28 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MBClarinda Harriss is a professor emerita of English at Towson University, where she taught poetry, editing, and modern literature for decades, during one of which she was the Chair of English. Her most recent poetry collections are Air Travel, Mortmain, and Dirty Blue Voice. Harriss's poems and short fiction are widely anthologized. She directs BrickHouse Books, Maryland's oldest literary press. Her ongoing research interest is in prison writers. She and Moira Egan recently edited Hot Sonnet...
Invasion of the Flying Saucers: Washington, DC 1952
March 04, 2013 10:34 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBIn 1952, the skies over Washington, D.C. were saturated with flying saucers. Aerial dog fights between United States Air Force pilots and these unknown invaders were tracked by commercial and military radar. While the nation's capital was held in thrall by these nighttime activities, the highest levels of the government were involved in covering it up. Or so the conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists would have you believe. Can we look back over the intervening years and discover what happened...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
March 04, 2013 09:48 - 55 minutes - 25.2 MBSonia Sotomayor was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2009. My Beloved World is the story of her life before she became the first Hispanic appointed to the court: her childhood in a Bronx housing project; her relationship with her grandmother who sheltered her from the meanness of the South Bronx; her dogged and brilliant march through public schools and the Ivy League; and her extraordinary legal career. My Beloved World is a book about self-discovery; Sotomayor, at the pinnacle of legal a...
Bob Rogers
February 25, 2013 10:22 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBIsaac Rice, a teenaged slave, escapes from a South Carolina rice plantation and faces incredible hardships and danger as he travels westward. First Dark is an epic tale of a young man who pursues respect and dignity on an odyssey that takes him from the Civil War through the Indian Wars, Reconstruction and spillover bloodshed from a Mexican Revolution. Bob Rogers, author of Will and Dena, is a former army captain and combat leader during the Vietnam War. Recorded On: Sunday, February 24,...
Bernice L. McFadden and Courttia Newland
February 20, 2013 15:49 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBTwo well-known authors read and talk about their novels, newly published by Akashic Books. Bernice McFadden's classic novel, Nowhere Is a Place, isabout a young woman's journey of self-discovery and a road trip with her mother, told from the young woman's and the mother's point of view. McFadden is the author of eight novels including Sugar, Gathering of Waters, and Glorious. Courttia Newland's new novel, The Gospel According to Cane, tells the story of a woman torn apart by the a...
Shirley Sherrod
February 19, 2013 11:10 - 1 hour - 38.1 MBShirley Sherrod, former U.S.D.A. Georgia State Director of Rural Development, was fired from her job in July, 2010, after a conservative blogger published clips from a speech she had made several months earlier that were misconstrued as reverse racism. In her memoir, Sherrod shares what it was like to be in the center of a very public debate and how growing up in segregated Georgia during the Civil Rights movement helped prepare her for the firestorm. Shirley Sherrod lectures nationa...
James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire
February 19, 2013 09:45 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBNew York actor and editor Charles Reese brings famed American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin to life. Reese will perform selected excerpts from the book which he edited, James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire. Charles Reese is a professional performance artist, educator and consultant in television, independent film and theater. He is currently a series regular on the hit comedy web series, "WHO" (available on www.ajakwetv.com). www.JamesBaldwinASoulOnFire.com Record...
Wenonah Hauter
February 13, 2013 15:54 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBWenonah Hauter is executive director of Food & Water Watch, a watchdog organization focused on corporate and government accountability as it relates to food, water and fishing. She also runs an organic family farm in northern Virginia that provides healthy vegetables to more than 500 families in the Washington, DC area as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. As one of the nation's leading healthy food advocates, Hauter believes that the local food movement is n...
Adam Robinson and Chris Mason
February 13, 2013 15:48 - 1 hour - 31 MBAdam Robinson is the author of Say Poem and Adam Robison and Other Poems, which was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award. He is the founding editor of Publishing Genius, a small press that focuses on poetry and experimental fiction, and he writes about it for HTMLGIANT. On Twitter he is @pubgen. Chris Mason is a poet and a member of three bands, The Tinklers, Coocoo Rockin Time, and Old Songs, the last of which translates archaic Greek poetry and puts it to music. He is th...
Emily Raboteau
February 07, 2013 12:52 - 1 hour - 31 MBAt twenty-three, Emily Raboteau traveled to Israel to visit a childhood friend who'd found a place to belong. As a biracial American woman, Raboteau couldn't say the same for herself. After meeting black Jews in Israel, she sought out other black communities that had left home in search of a Promised Land, from Africa to Jamaica to the American South. In Searching for Zion, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place and patriotism, displacement and dispossession, citizenship and country in an ho...
PNC Bank Presents: How Baltimore Small Business Owners Are Facing a Challenging Economy
February 07, 2013 12:35 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBPNC Bank is making many efforts to provide small business owners and those interested in starting a small business with information on how to do so successfully. This panel discussion was hosted by Ramsey Harris, Business Banker for PNC, interviewing Anthony McCarthy, Principal of McCarthy Group, Jessy Mejia, CEO Estragica, and Y. Maria Welch Martinez, CEO Respira Medical; all business owners represented are also associated with Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore. The conversation is focus...
Ronald S. Coddington
February 05, 2013 09:51 - 1 hour - 33.4 MBA renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. During the Civil War, 200,000 African American men enlisted in the Union army or navy. Some of them were free men, some escaped from slavery, and some were released by sympathetic owners to join the war effort. African American Faces of the Civil War tells the story of the Civil War through the imag...
Sue Ellen Thompson and Kathleen Hellen
January 31, 2013 15:30 - 1 hour - 33.8 MBSue Ellen Thompson is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Golden Hour, and the editor of The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. In 2010 she received the Maryland Author Award, given to a poet every four years by the Maryland Library Association. Ms. Thompson has taught at many universities—among them Middlebury, Wesleyan, Binghamton University and the University of Delaware—as well as The Writer’s Center in Bethesda and Annapolis and at the Academy Art...
Thaddeus Logan
January 28, 2013 10:25 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBThaddeus Logan is a former Baltimore City policeman and vice detective turned cab driver. Logan writes about his fares and the city he serves with great insight and sensitivity, and he has a particular affection for his regular customers, the perennial underclass. His vignettes show the city, warts and all, and its people, regardless of neighborhood, income or prejudices. Hey Cabbie II is a sequel to Logan's popular 1984 book. Recorded On: Sunday, January 27, 2013
George E. Leary, Jr.
January 24, 2013 10:58 - 45 minutes - 21 MBGeorge Leary was a youth counselor, surrounded by kids all day, and yet he failed to see that his own child was using and abusing drugs. After facing his denial, fear and grief, he made it his purpose in life to work with addicts and educate parents on how to help their kids. In his book, he answers important questions such as: "what are the warning signs of alcohol or drug addiction?" and "how can a parent intervene and find treatment for the child and family?" George E. Leary, Jr. provid...
The No Excuse Guide to Success: No Matter What Your Boss -- or Life -- Throws at You
January 24, 2013 10:54 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBEveryone is guilty of playing the blame game. It's satisfying and easy to do. If we despise our work, we can blame our manager or even our short-sighted organization for its inability to recognize our genius. If our personal lives are a disaster, we can blame our spouses, partners, and the economy. Jim Smith's No Excuse Guide to Success shows you how to stop this destructive pattern of making excuses and blaming others. Jim Smith, Jr., president and CEO of JIMPACT Enterprises, is a sought...
Vellamo
January 23, 2013 09:51 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBIn Finnish mythology, Vellamo is the goddess of the sea. Based in Vaasa, on the western coast of Finland, the folk duo Vellamo crosses the sea to entertain American audiences. Vocalist Pia Leinonen and guitarist Joni Tiala combine the rich tradition of Finnish folksong with a "retro" sensibility, creating a magical acoustic experience. Recorded On: Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Chris Hayes
January 17, 2013 10:25 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBIn Twilight of the Elites, Chris Hayes outlines the effects, and then the cause, of America's crisis of authority, and calls for a sweeping overhaul of the social order. Over the last decade, America has had to adjust to economic and political dysfunction and the near-total failure of each pillar institution of our society. Hayes offers an original theory about how we came to this pass and concludes that the meritocratic system upon which we depend to select the country's best and brightest...
Garrett Epps
January 11, 2013 13:24 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBThe primary purpose of the Constitution is to limit Congress. There is no separation of church and state. The Second Amendment allows citizens to make threats against the government. These are a few of the myths about our Constitution put forth by a well-organized, well-funded right wing in an effort to cripple the right of We the People to govern ourselves. Garrett Epps provides the tools citizens need to fight back against the flood of constitutional nonsense. In terms every citizen can u...
Craig L. Symonds
January 11, 2013 13:11 - 58 minutes - 27 MBCraig Symonds, professor emeritus of history at the U.S. Naval Academy, presents a masterful history of the Civil War navies, both Union and Confederate, and places them within the broader context of the emerging industrial age. He begins with an account of the dramatic pre-war revolution in naval technology which was epitomized in the famous "Battle of the Ironclads." He offers an overview of Lincoln's blockade of the South, discusses the naval war for control of the rivers in the West, an...
Larry S. Gibson
December 14, 2012 15:25 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBThurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the 20th century: he transformed the nation's legal landscape by challenging racial segregation; he won 29 of 33 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court; he was a federal appeals court judge, served as the U.S. solicitor general, and for 24 years sat on the Supreme Court. Marshall is best known for achievements after he relocated to New York in 1936 to work for the NAACP. But Marshall's personality, attitudes, priorities, and work ha...
Segregation and Fair Housing in the Baltimore Area
December 13, 2012 15:50 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBAntero Pietila's landmark book, Not In My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City(2010), tells the story of how discrimination molded housing patterns in the Baltimore area, from Baltimore's 1910 residential segregation ordinance -- later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court -- to redlining and racial covenants and real estate practices that were lawful until passage of the federal Fair Housing Act in 1968. Given the impact of historic housing discrimination, the Fair Housin...
An Afternoon of Poetry
December 03, 2012 19:26 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBThis annual Cave Canem poetry reading at the Pratt features Kwame Dawes and Cave Canem fellows Mahogany L. Brown, Raina Fields, Niki Herd, Brandon D. Johnson, Bettina Judd, and Kateema Lee. Hosted by Reginald Harris of Poets House in New York. Born in Ghana in 1962, Kwame Dawes spent most of his childhood in Jamaica. He is a writer of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays. Of his 16 collections of poetry, the most recent include Wheels (2011); Back of Mount Peace (2009); and Hope's Hospice...
An Afternoon of Poetry
December 03, 2012 14:26 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBThis annual Cave Canem poetry reading at the Pratt features Kwame Dawes and Cave Canem fellows Mahogany L. Brown, Raina Fields, Niki Herd, Brandon D. Johnson, Bettina Judd, and Kateema Lee. Hosted by Reginald Harris of Poets House in New York. Born in Ghana in 1962, Kwame Dawes spent most of his childhood in Jamaica. He is a writer of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays. Of his 16 collections of poetry, the most recent include Wheels (2011); Back of Mount Peace (2009); and Hope's Hospice...
Charles O. Heller
December 03, 2012 11:54 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBCharles Heller's early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic until, when he was three, Germany occupied his country. In his memoir, Heller narrates his family's story during those hellish years. Son of a mixed marriage, he was raised a Catholic and was unaware of his Jewish roots, even after his father escaped to join the British army and fifteen members of his family disappeared. Before being sent to a slave labor camp, Heller's mother hid him on a farm to avoid deportation. After the wa...
High Schools, Race and America's Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity and Community
November 29, 2012 10:10 - 1 hour - 33.5 MBIn High Schools, Race, and America's Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism. Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students' engagement with one another, with a rich and challenging academic curriculum, and with questions that relate powerfully to their daily lives. Blum, an acclaimed moral philosopher whose work focuses on issues of race, reflects with candor, insight, and humor o...
Elizabeth George
November 19, 2012 12:48 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBA Night of Mystery with Elizabeth George, author of Inspector Lynley Mysteries... as seen on PBS. Part of the Pratt Presents... a fundraiser for child and teen literacy efforts. Recorded On: Saturday, November 17, 2012
Eric Rutkow
November 16, 2012 10:06 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBEnvironmentalist Eric Rutkow presents a remarkable and thoroughly researched book about how trees have shaped American history, and in turn how forests have been shaped by history,. He shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country's rise as both an empire and a civilization. Rutkow writes about characters like Johnny Appleseed, Henry David Thoreau, and of course, George Washington and his cherry tree. Eric Rutkow is a graduate of Yale U...
Linda Pastan and Myra Sklarew
November 15, 2012 13:27 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBLinda Pastan has written over 13 books, including the recent poetry collections The Last Uncle, Queen of a Rainy Country, and Traveling Light. She has received the Dylan Thomas award, a Pushcart Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Her PM/AM: New and Selected Poems and Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968–1998 were finalists for the National Book Award, and The Imperfect Paradise was...
Michael I. Meyerson
November 08, 2012 10:14 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBFor more than two centuries, Americans have debated the concept of freedom of religion. Did the Founding Fathers intend to create a Christian nation, or a government based on total exclusion of religion in the public sphere? In Endowed by Our Creator, Michael Meyerson shows that the framers of the Constitution understood that the American government should not acknowledge religion in a way that favors any particular creed or denomination. Nevertheless, the framers believed that religion co...
Robert A. Hill
November 02, 2012 10:14 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBDr. Robert A. Hill is professor emeritus of history at UCLA and director of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project. He is internationally recognized as a leading authority on the life of Garvey and the history of the Garvey movement. Recorded On: Thursday, November 1, 2012
Rob Kasper
October 26, 2012 10:10 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBRob Kasper, former Baltimore Sun reporter and columnist, has produced a hoppy, refreshing account of the history of brewing in Baltimore, from ancient craft brewers in the 18th century, through the beer wars of the Victorian era, to mass production in the 20th century, then finally back to the craft brewers of today. Kasper uses interviews, vintage images, and a few recipes to pop the cap on Charm City's brewing history. While at the Sun, Rob Kasper wrote often about the area's food and dr...
Ellen Cassedy
October 25, 2012 09:40 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBEllen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death led her to Lithuania, once the "Jerusalem of the North." What began as a personal journey broadened into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move forward into the future. Ellen Cassedy has spent 10 years studying the world of the Lithuanian Holocaust. Her translations and articles have appeared in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist J...
My City, My Home
October 23, 2012 14:41 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBThe winners of the Baltimore City Senior Citizens Poetry Contest 2012, sponsored by the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks, are: Barbara Morrison, first place; Helen Szymkowiak, second place; Kate Richardson, third place; and Mary Dozier, honorable mention. They will read from their winning entries at this Free Fall Baltimore event. Carla Dupree, one of the contest judges, will present a special tribute to her friend Lucille Clifton, former Maryland poet laureate. Re...
CityLit Press and the World of Publishing
October 23, 2012 14:22 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBLaunched by CityLit Project in 2010, CityLit Press publishes quality books often overlooked by larger publishers due to their regional focus or literary nature. In two years, the press has released five individual titles, three chapbooks under its Harriss Poetry Prize series, and four specialty books as part of CityLit Project's youth programming. Although the publishing business is undergoing unprecedented changes, and reading hhabits fluctuate, CityLit Press is dedicated to championing th...
A Centenary Celebration of Pierrot Lunaire
October 10, 2012 09:56 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MBIn a voice caught somewhere between speech and singing, ‘moonstruck’ Pierrot, the sad, lovelorn clown, takes a darkly comic journey through music colored by the smoky decadence of Berlin cabarets. Paul Mathews, co-author of the book Inside Pierrot Lunaire, speaks about the significance of Arnold Schoenberg's cornerstone 20th century work, followed by a performance of the piece by the Baltimore-based LUNAR Ensemble. Recorded On: Saturday, October 6, 2012
Chris Cleave
October 03, 2012 15:06 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBKate and Zoe are British Olympic cyclists and friends. Kate's family duties keep her away from the 2004 Olympics in Athens as Zoe goes for the gold. Fast forward to 2012, as Kate and Zoe train for their last Olympics in London. Meanwhile, Kate copes with her seriously ill daughter and Zoe contends with loneliness. Chris Cleave's captivating novel explores friendship, rivalry, and the private cost of public victory. Chris Cleave is the author of Incendiary and the international bestseller L...
Jeffrey Toobin
September 24, 2012 13:00 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MBThe relationship between Barack Obama's White House and John Roberts' Supreme Court has been rocky from the start, when Chief Justice Roberts flubbed the Oath of Office at President Obama's inauguration. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic, determined to change the course of the nation -- and completely at odds on almost every major constitutional issue. Award-winning journalist and author Jeffrey Toobin offers an insider's account of this ideological war in his latest book, The Oath...
Harold Kwalwasser
September 20, 2012 10:11 - 1 hour - 40.2 MBAccording to Harold Kwalwasser, former general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District, it is the parents' duty to drive school reform. Parents who participate in their children's school activities are able to see clearly a school's strengths and weaknesses better than Washington or the states. Parents and taxpayers can play a key role in the reform of public education, but they must know what a well-managed, high-performing school looks like. Kwalwasser visited 40 high-performi...
Rafael Alvarez
September 20, 2012 09:02 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBTuerk House, Baltimore's groundbreaking drug and alcohol rehab center, opened in 1970 after Maryland reclassified alcoholism from a criminal offense to a disease. In The Tuerk House, author and former newspaperman Rafael Alvarez covers the institution's founding and changes in the philosophy of treatment over the years. It also includes a biography of Dr. Isadore Tuerk, the University of Maryland psychiatrist and alcoholism expert for whom the rehab center is named. Operating in west Baltim...
Racial Anxiety and Unconscious Bias
September 18, 2012 10:25 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBWhat we don't know can hurt us and others -- and unconscious bias along with racial anxiety can unwittingly affect our responses and behavior. The examples revealed in provocative new research may surprise you: embedded stereotypes, it concludes, are experienced by people of color and whites alike. Understanding these biases is critical, especially for people in positions of power where critical decisions are made -- in the classroom, in the court room, and in the doctor's office. Rachel G...
Dr. Peter Beilenson and Patrick McGuire
September 12, 2012 15:35 - 1 hour - 28 MBMillions of people got their introduction to Baltimore by watching "The Wire." The show examined some very difficult urban problems. For example, did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? Can children like Wallace and Dukie be saved? Tapping Into "The Wire" uses the television series as a road map for exploring connections between inner-city poverty and drug-related violence. Dr. Peter Beilenson and Patrick McGuire have written a compelling, highly-readable examination of urban policy and publ...
Mencken Day - Richard J. Schrader
September 11, 2012 10:14 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBThe 2012 Mencken Memorial Lecture - "The Scopes Trial: How the Letter Kills," presented by Richard J. Schrader, professor emeritus of English, Boston College. Dr. Schrader taught at Princeton University and at Boston College from 1975 to 2009. His publications include H. L. Mencken: A Descriptive Bibliography (1998) and H. L. Mencken: A Documentary Volume (2000). This lecture was part of the Mencken Society annual meeting. Recorded On: Saturday, September 8, 2012
Linda Joy Burke and Michelle Antoinette Nelson
August 09, 2012 12:43 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBThe poets will perform and join with the audience in a discussion of the differences and commonalities between poems made for the page and poems performed on the stage. Performance poet, writer, percussionist, and amateur photographer, Linda Joy Burke is a 2002 Distinguished Black Marylander Award recipient for Art from Towson University’s Office of Diversity; a 2004 Poetry for the People Baltimore Legacy Award recipient; and a 2007 Columbia Festival of the Arts Poetry Slam winner. She is ...
Tana French
August 03, 2012 15:04 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBMick "Scorcher" Kennedy, the brash cop from Tana French's Faithful Place, is the Dublin murder squad's top detective -- and that's what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands. On one of the half-built, half-abandoned "luxury" developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children are dead. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher and his rookie partner, Richie, think it's going to be an easy solve. But too many small things can't be explained. ...
Gerald Chertavian
July 31, 2012 09:14 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBMore than five million young adults in the U.S. have only a high school education and are facing an "opportunity divide" that strands motivated workers outside the economic mainstream. In 2000, Gerald Chertavian, a visionary businessman, former Wall Street investment banker, and longtime mentor with the Big Brother program, created Year Up to address these challenges and help close the "opportunity divide." Year Up makes available extensive, job-focused education to underserved and margina...
Rachel L. Swarns
July 24, 2012 09:15 - 57 minutes - 26.6 MBIn American Tapestry, Rachel Swarns unearths the hidden story of First Lady Michelle Obama's multiracial ancestors, a history that she herself did not know. It traces the black, white and multiracial forebears of the nation's first African American first lady back to the 19th century and reveals, for the first time, the identity of Mrs. Obama's white great-great-great grandfather, a man who remained hidden for more than a century in her family tree. Rachel L. Swarns has been a reporter for...
Rachel Hennick
July 17, 2012 10:50 - 43 minutes - 19.7 MBRachel Hennick tells the story of her father, Bill Hennick, a firefighter and paramedic in Baltimore, a city with the busiest fire stations in the U.S. As a child, Bill survives a terrible fire and later joins the still-segregated Baltimore City Fire Department at the height of the civil rights movement. He witnesses the race riots of 1968 and the ensuing infernos. After whites begin fleeing to the suburbs, Bill develops empathy for those left behind and tries to make a difference by becomi...
Maggie Anderson
July 17, 2012 10:46 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBOn January 1, 2009, Maggie and John Anderson, two African American professionals living in the Chicago suburbs, embarked on a year-long public pledge to "buy black." They thought that by taking a stand, the black community would be mobilized to exert its economic might. They thought that by exposing the issues, Americans of all races would see that economically empowering black neighborhoods benefits society as a whole. Instead, blacks refused to support their own, and others condemned thei...