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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Writers LIVE: Leonard Pitts, Jr., The Last Thing You Surrender
March 29, 2019 13:15 - 50 minutes - 23.1 MBPulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s new historical page-turner is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States. Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the author of the novels The Last Thing You Surrender, Grant Park, Freeman, and Before I Forget, as well as two works of nonfiction. He is a nationally syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald and wi...
Writers LIVE: Brian VanDeMark, Road To Disaster
March 22, 2019 12:12 - 1 hour - 33 MBBrian VanDeMark is in conversation with George Petras of USA Today. In Road To Disaster: A New History Of America’s Descent Into Vietnam, Naval Academy professor Brian VanDeMark looks at the cataclysmic decisions made by the “best and the brightest” through the prism of recent research in cognitive science, psychology, and organizational theory. Drawing upon decades of archival research, his own interviews with many of those involved, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by McNama...
Writers LIVE: Jessie Morgan-Owens, Girl in Black and White
March 21, 2019 13:16 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MBGirl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement restores Mary Mildred Williams to her rightful place in history and uncovers a dramatic narrative of travels along the Underground Railroad, relationships tested by oppression, and the struggles of life after emancipation. The result is an exposé of the thorny racial politics of the abolitionist movement and the pervasive colorism that dictated where white sympathy lay―one that sheds light on a shameful l...
Celebrate Women's History Month with celeste doaks, Lady Brion, and DaMaris Hill
March 18, 2019 13:38 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBCelebrate Women's History Month as celeste doaks, Lady Brion, and DaMaris Hill read selections and talk about their work. Hosted by Carla Du Pree, Executive Director of CityLit Project. Poet and journalist celeste doaks is the author of Cornrows and Cornfields. Most recently, she is the editor of the poetry anthology Not Without Our Laughter. Her newest poems appear in Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America Anthology. She is University of Delaware’s Visiting Assistant P...
Writers LIVE: Linda Morris, Cherry Hill: Raising Successful Children in Jim Crow Baltimore
March 15, 2019 18:01 - 1 hour - 33 MBLinda G. Morris is in conversation with John H. Morris, Jr., Esq., and Sidney Rauls-Ellis, LSWC.Before Opie lived in Mayberry, Beaver and Wally in Mayfield, and Betty, Bud and Kathy in Springfield, there were thousands of little Black children experiencing the same quality of life in Cherry Hill, a post WWII planned suburban community containing a public housing project on a southeastern peninsula of Baltimore City. In Cherry Hill: Raising Successful Black Children in Jim Crow Baltimore, Lin...
Writers LIVE: Linda Morris, Cherry Hill: Raising Successful Children in Jim Crow Baltimore
March 15, 2019 13:01 - 1 hour - 33 MBLinda G. Morris is in conversation with John H. Morris, Jr., Esq., and Sidney Rauls-Ellis, LSWC. Before Opie lived in Mayberry, Beaver and Wally in Mayfield, and Betty, Bud and Kathy in Springfield, there were thousands of little Black children experiencing the same quality of life in Cherry Hill, a post WWII planned suburban community containing a public housing project on a southeastern peninsula of Baltimore City. In Cherry Hill: Raising Successful Black Children in Jim Crow Baltimore, ...
John Muller: The Lost History of Frederick (Bailey) Douglass in Baltimore
March 07, 2019 19:38 - 1 hour - 31.2 MBJohn Muller, author of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia and Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent, will present "The Lost History of Frederick (Bailey) Douglass in Baltimore" using newly discovered information found in the Baltimore City Archives, Maryland Historical Society, Enoch Pratt Free Library, and private archives. Muller has presented widely throughout the DC-Baltimore metropolitan area at venues including the Library...
Writers LIVE: Ross Gay, The Book of Delights
February 25, 2019 14:34 - 28.9 MBRoss Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves. More than any other subject, Gay celebrates the beauty of...
Writers LIVE: Ayesha Harruna Attah, The Hundred Wells of Salaga
February 15, 2019 15:13 - 56 minutes - 26 MBAminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that transforms her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father's court. These two women's lives converge as infighting among Wurche's people threatens the region, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century. Based on true events in precolonial Ghana, The Hundred Wells of ...
Poetry & Conversation: Paulette Beete, Kathleen Hellen, & Stephen Zerance
February 09, 2019 01:40 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBPaulette Beete's poems, short stories, and personal essays have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Always Crashing, and Beltway Poetry Quarterly, among other journals. Her chapbooks include Blues for a Pretty Girl and Voice Lessons. Her work also appears in the anthologies Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC and Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (with Danna Ephland). Her work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She...
Poetry & Conversation: Paulette Beete, Kathleen Hellen, & Stephen Zerance
February 08, 2019 20:40 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBPaulette Beete's poems, short stories, and personal essays have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Always Crashing, and Beltway Poetry Quarterly, among other journals. Her chapbooks include Blues for a Pretty Girl and Voice Lessons. Her work also appears in the anthologies Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC and Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (with Danna Ephland). Her work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Sh...
Writers LIVE: David Taylor, Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
February 05, 2019 15:09 - 52 minutes - 24.1 MBCork Wars is a history involving World War II, immigration and cork. It’s a story about how cork—from cork oak forests around the Mediterranean—was a big deal in the mid-20th century. It was so big that when Germany cut supplies with the Atlantic blockade, cork companies and their workers got caught up in the life-and-death geopolitical struggle. What began as a simple trade in bark and bottle caps quickly grew into a global drama with sabotage, espionage, and profiteering. In Cork Wars, D...
Writers LIVE: Christianna McCausland, The Orchard Lover
February 01, 2019 18:42 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MBEach year Alden Forth takes a lover, only to let him go after a few short weeks. That is until the summer she finds her simple way of life threatened as her grandfather, her last surviving relative, descends into dementia. The arrival of a revivalist minister further upsets the balance in Alden's rural hometown, for the minister's vehemence to save souls has no bounds. Quickly the town's carefully constructed boundaries begin to crumble. Alden must face the truth about her grandfather's dise...
Writers LIVE: Christianna McCausland, The Orchard Lover
February 01, 2019 13:42 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MBEach year Alden Forth takes a lover, only to let him go after a few short weeks. That is until the summer she finds her simple way of life threatened as her grandfather, her last surviving relative, descends into dementia. The arrival of a revivalist minister further upsets the balance in Alden's rural hometown, for the minister's vehemence to save souls has no bounds. Quickly the town's carefully constructed boundaries begin to crumble. Alden must face the truth about her grandfather's dis...
Writers LIVE: Leslie Jamison, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
January 22, 2019 16:16 - 1 hour - 33.6 MBLeslie Jamison is in conversation with Adam Kaplin, MD, PhD, of the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the st...
Writers LIVE: Katrina Bell McDonald, Embracing Sisterhood
January 16, 2019 19:58 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MBEmbracing Sisterhood is a thought-provoking examination of black women’s intersecting challenges, tensions, and issues of class in the twenty-first century. In this purported era of high-profile, mega-successful black women and growing socioeconomic diversity, Embracing Sisterhood seeks to determine where contemporary black women’s ideas of black womanhood and sisterhood merge with social class. Katrina Bell McDonald is Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, Co-dir...
Poetry & Conversation: Elizabeth Spires & David Yezzi
January 02, 2019 18:55 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MBElizabeth Spires (born in 1952 in Lancaster, Ohio) is the author of seven poetry collections: Globe, Swan’s Island, Annonciade, Worldling, Now the Green Blade Rises, The Wave-Maker, and, newly published, A Memory of the Future. She has also written six books for children, including The Mouse of Amherst and I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and other magazines and anth...
Matthew Horace, The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
January 02, 2019 18:45 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBUsing gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered from interviews with over 100 police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider's examination of police tactics, which he concludes is an "archaic system" built on a "toxic brotherhood" in The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement. He dissects some of the nation's most highly publicized police shootings and crimes to ex...
An Evening with Nic Stone, One Book Baltimore author
December 13, 2018 21:34 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBNic Stone will be in conversation with Rashad Staton, Youth Engagement Specialist for Baltimore City Public Schools. One Book Baltimore is a new initiative that provides opportunities for Baltimore City 7th and 8th graders, their families, and community members to connect through literature by reading the same book. This year’s book is New York Times bestseller Dear Martin by Nic Stone. Nic Stone is a native of Atlanta and a Spelman College graduate. After working extensively in teen men...
Writers LIVE: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Cyberwar
December 12, 2018 21:25 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBDrawing on path-breaking work in which she and her colleagues isolated significant communication effects in the 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns, the eminent political communication scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson marshals the troll posts, unique polling data, analyses of how the press used the hacked content, and a synthesis of half a century of media effects research to argue that, although not certain, it is probable that the Russians helped elect the 45th president of the United Stat...
The Business of Publishing: Screenwriting Edition
November 30, 2018 14:32 - 2 hours - 62.7 MBAre you interested in screenwriting? Do you want tips and tricks on how to break into the screenwriting industry? Have you considered marketing strategies to become a successful screenwriter? Then join us for an exciting networking event and panel discussion with Q&A featuring local professors and screenwriters. Don’t forget to bring a pen and paper for notes, as well as business cards for networking! Panelists include: Joe Tropea, Curator of Films & Photographs and Digital Projects Coord...
An Evening with Porochista Khakpour and Mattilda B. Sycamore
November 15, 2018 19:10 - 1 hour - 32.5 MBPorochista Khakpour's debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times Editor's Choice, one of the Chicago Tribune's Fall's Best, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the 'First Fiction' category. Her second novel The Last Illusion was a 2014 "Best Book of the Year" according to NPR, Kirkus, Buzzfeed, Popmatters, Electric Literature, and many more. Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many sections of...
Poetry & Conversation: Joelle Biele, Ann Bracken, & Ann Quinn
November 02, 2018 17:55 - 1 hour - 33.4 MBJoelle Biele's newest book is Tramp (LSU Press, 2018); she is also the author of White Summer and Broom and the editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. A Fulbright professor in Germany and Poland, she has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Poetry Society of America. Her essays and fiction appear in American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, and New England Review. She has tau...
Writers LIVE: Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
October 24, 2018 13:29 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBRecruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and i...
Writers LIVE: Jabari Asim, We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
October 17, 2018 16:48 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBThis collection of insightful and searing essays celebrates the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America. In We Can't Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the "Master Narrative" and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In these wide-ranging and penetrating essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life, the importanc...
Poetry & Conversation: Geraldine Connolly & Doritt Carroll
October 15, 2018 20:02 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBGeraldine Connolly was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of a chapbook, The Red Room, and four full-length poetry collections: Food for the Winter (Purdue), Province of Fire (Iris Press), Hand of the Wind (Iris Press), and her new book, Aileron, published by Terrapin Books in 2018.Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Cortland Review, and Shenandoah. It has been anthologized in Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High School Students; Sweeping Beauty: ...
Poetry & Conversation: Geraldine Connolly & Doritt Carroll
October 15, 2018 15:02 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBGeraldine Connolly was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of a chapbook, The Red Room, and four full-length poetry collections: Food for the Winter (Purdue), Province of Fire (Iris Press), Hand of the Wind (Iris Press), and her new book, Aileron, published by Terrapin Books in 2018. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Cortland Review, and Shenandoah. It has been anthologized in Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High School Students; Sweeping Beaut...
Writers LIVE: Eugene Meyer, Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army
October 04, 2018 20:19 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBOn October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines battered their way in on October 18.The raiders were routed, and several were captured. Soon after, they were tried, convicted, and hanged. Among Brown’s fighters were five African American men --...
Writers LIVE: Tim Mohr, Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
October 04, 2018 15:49 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBThe ;conversation with Tim Mohr will be moderated by WBAL-TV anchor Andre Hepkins. The story of East German punk rock is about much more than music; it is a story of extraordinary bravery in the face of one of the most oppressive regimes in history. It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin in 1980, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. When the East German punks became mor...
Writers LIVE: Eugene Meyer, Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army
October 04, 2018 15:19 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBOn October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines battered their way in on October 18. The raiders were routed, and several were captured. Soon after, they were tried, convicted, and hanged. Among Brown’s fighters were five African American men...
2018 Mencken Memorial Lecture
September 18, 2018 18:42 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBThe 2018 Mencken Memorial Lecture presented by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post.Dana Milbank is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist. Before joining the staff of the Washington Post in 2005, he served as a senior editor at the New Republic and a reporter with the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of three books, including the national bestseller Homo Politicus.
An Evening with Michael Downs & Paul Goldberg
September 18, 2018 18:34 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBIn 1844, Horace Wells, a Connecticut dentist, encountered nitrous oxide, or laughing gas -- then an entertainment for performers in carnival-like theatrical acts -- and began administering the gas as the first true anesthetic. His discovery would change the world, reshaping medicine and humanity's relationship with pain. But that discovery would also thrust Wells into scandals that threatened his reputation, his family, and his sanity -- hardships and triumphs that resonate in today's strugg...
2018 Mencken Memorial Lecture
September 18, 2018 13:42 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBThe 2018 Mencken Memorial Lecture presented by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post. Dana Milbank is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist. Before joining the staff of the Washington Post in 2005, he served as a senior editor at the New Republic and a reporter with the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of three books, including the national bestseller Homo Politicus. Recorded On: Saturday, September 15, 2018
An Evening with Michael Downs & Paul Goldberg
September 18, 2018 13:34 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBIn 1844, Horace Wells, a Connecticut dentist, encountered nitrous oxide, or laughing gas -- then an entertainment for performers in carnival-like theatrical acts -- and began administering the gas as the first true anesthetic. His discovery would change the world, reshaping medicine and humanity's relationship with pain. But that discovery would also thrust Wells into scandals that threatened his reputation, his family, and his sanity -- hardships and triumphs that resonate in today's strug...
Writers LIVE: Chris Hedges, America: The Farewell Tour
September 10, 2018 14:31 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBIn his new book, America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges provides a provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair -- drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate. According to Hedges, America is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil socie...
Celebrating the 2018 Poetry Contest Finalists with Little Patuxent Review
August 23, 2018 13:09 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBThe 2018 Enoch Pratt Free Library / Little Patuxent Review Poetry Contest winner shares the stage with a contest runner-up, two contest judges, and a Little Patuxent Review contributor. Born in India and raised in Dubai, Poetry Contest winner Kanak (pronounced Kuh-nuck) Gupta is currently trying her luck in Baltimore, as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University. She likes reading, writing, and living stories (and poetry). Runner-up Rachel E. Hicks’s poetry has appeared in Saint Kather...
An Evening with Laura van den Berg and Nate Brown
August 17, 2018 13:34 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBThe Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel. A widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death -- and the truth about their marriage -- in this surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, ...
An Evening with The Imagination Lab
August 17, 2018 13:28 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBAddiction is too often viewed only through the prism of sadness and pain. At this event, you are invited to imagine the greater possibilities as we celebrate the creativity and optimism of the writers from The Imagination Lab. The Imagination Lab is the brainchild of Karen Reese, Executive Director of Man Alive, Inc.—the first and longest running methadone maintenance clinic in Maryland. The lab was created to explore and nurture the creative talents of those in medication-assisted treat...
Writers LIVE: Kimberla Lawson Roby, Better Late Than Never
August 09, 2018 19:07 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBCurtis Black is no stranger to scandal. Throughout the decades, he has done much in the public eye, both good and evil. But what most people don't realize is that Curtis has been hiding a horrific childhood that has affected him in countless, unspeakable ways. His buried past returns in an unwelcome visit when his estranged sister becomes alarmingly ill and his youngest child, twelve-year-old Curtina, becomes the kind of problem daughter that he never imagined she could be. This is only th...
Writers LIVE: Anthony Moll, Out of Step
August 06, 2018 15:43 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MBWhat makes a pink-haired queer raise his hand to enlist in the military just as the nation is charging into war? In his memoir, Out of Step, Anthony Moll tells the story of a working-class bisexual boy running off to join the army in the midst of two wars and the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" era. Set against the backdrop of hypermasculinity and sexual secrecy, Moll weaves a queer coming-of-age story. Out of Step traces Moll’s development through his military service, recounting how the army bo...
Brown Lecture: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
June 19, 2018 23:46 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBIn The Voting Rights War, Gloria Browne-Marshall examines voter laws posing challenges to American voters -- especially African Americans -- from slavery through current controversies of voter suppression, including grandfather clauses, literacy tests, felony disenfranchisement and photo identification requirements. She focuses on the NAACP's century-long struggle to achieve voting equality through efforts on the ground and in court, and the organization's often contentious relationship with...
Writers LIVE: Kevin Shird, The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements
June 19, 2018 23:29 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBKevin Shird traveled from Baltimore to Montgomery, Alabama, to meet 84-year-old Nelson Malden. In Malden's barbershop, leaders of the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr., gathered to organize protests and boycotts and to write the speeches that would help criminalize racial segregation and discrimination.Shird and Malden talked about the significance of recent racially motivated events and how the demonstrations in Charlottesville, Ferguson, Baltimore and around the coun...
Brown Lecture: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
June 19, 2018 18:46 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBIn The Voting Rights War, Gloria Browne-Marshall examines voter laws posing challenges to American voters -- especially African Americans -- from slavery through current controversies of voter suppression, including grandfather clauses, literacy tests, felony disenfranchisement and photo identification requirements. She focuses on the NAACP's century-long struggle to achieve voting equality through efforts on the ground and in court, and the organization's often contentious relationship wit...
Writers LIVE: Kevin Shird, The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements
June 19, 2018 18:29 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBKevin Shird traveled from Baltimore to Montgomery, Alabama, to meet 84-year-old Nelson Malden. In Malden's barbershop, leaders of the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr., gathered to organize protests and boycotts and to write the speeches that would help criminalize racial segregation and discrimination. Shird and Malden talked about the significance of recent racially motivated events and how the demonstrations in Charlottesville, Ferguson, Baltimore and around the c...
Writers LIVE: Rachel Devlin, A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
June 14, 2018 18:52 - 1 hour - 24.9 MBThe struggle to desegregate America’s schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take up the issue and bring it to the Supreme Court. After the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, girls far outnumbered boys in volunteering to desegregate formerly all-white schools. In A Girl Stands at the Door, historian Rachel Devlin t...
Poetry & Conversation: Jennifer Chang & Jenny Johnson
June 14, 2018 18:44 - 1 hour - 32.3 MBJennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Nation, Poetry, and A Public Space, and she has published essays on poetry and poetics in The Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, and The Volta. She co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, an organization that supports Asian American writers, and teac...
Writers LIVE: Darnell Moore, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
June 08, 2018 22:09 - 1 hour - 33.9 MBWhen Darnell Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they assumed he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It wasn't the last time he would face death. Three decades later, Moore is an award-winning writer and activist, a leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and a tireless advocate for justice and liberation. In No Ashes in the...
Writers LIVE: Darnell Moore, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
June 08, 2018 17:09 - 1 hour - 33.9 MBWhen Darnell Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they assumed he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It wasn't the last time he would face death. Three decades later, Moore is an award-winning writer and activist, a leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and a tireless advocate for justice and liberation. In No Ashes in t...
Writers LIVE: Natalie Hopkinson, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance
June 07, 2018 15:24 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MBAs people consider how to respond to a resurgence of racist, xenophobic populism, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled tells an extraordinary story of the ways art brings hope in perilous times. Weaving disparate topics from sugar and British colonialism to attacks on free speech and Facebook activism and traveling a jagged path across the Americas, Africa, India and Europe, Natalie Hopkinson argues that art is where the future is negotiated. Part post-colonial manifesto, part history of the British ...
Writers LIVE: Peter B. Levy, The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America During the 1960s
May 24, 2018 17:42 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MBBetween 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical context to be properly understood. By focusing on three cities as case studies -- Cambridge and Baltimore, Maryland, and York...