Category: Interviews

  • Marisa Franco The Graduate School University of Maryland 2015-05-21 “My graduate degree is shaping my life and career in a number of ways. The research skills I have gained at the University of Maryland have prepared me for a career in research in academia. An International Graduate Research Fellowship, in addition, gave me the opportunity…

  • Privilege And Pressure: A Memoir Of Growing Up Black And Elite In ‘Negroland’ Code Switch: Fronties of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-09-08 Terry Gross, Host Fresh Air Growing up in the 1950s, Margo Jefferson was part of Chicago’s black upper class. The daughter of a prominent doctor and his socialite wife, Jefferson…

  • An Interview with Celeste Ng, Author of Everything I Never Told You The Toast 2015-09-02 Nicole S. Chung, Managing Editor Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and…

  • In Search of the Black Mozart BBC Radio 4 2015-07-19 and 2015-07-26 Sarah Taylor, Producer Historian Steve Martin and Double Bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku Chi-chi Nwanoku has spent her career travelling and performing in concert halls the world over as the principal double bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. More recently, she’s been…

  • In Conversation: Quentin Tarantino Vulture 2015-08-23 Lane Brown, Culture Editor Midway through postproduction on his eighth movie, the Western THE HATEFUL EIGHT — about a band of outlaws trapped in a saloon during a blizzard — the director discusses the country’s legacy of white supremacy, Obama, and why he doesn’t worry about a Transformers future.…

  • WorldLink: Racial identities and the politics of color Deutsche Welle (DW) 2015-06-19 Bliss Broyard responds to the recent controversy surrounding Rachel Dolezal’s “passing” as black, and describes how racial identities have shaped her own life and career. Download the interview (00:07:55) here.

  • Podcast #75: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith on Race, Writing, and Relationships The NYPL Podcast The New York Public Library New York, New York 2015-08-25 Tracy O’Neill, Social Media Curator There are few authors as smart, powerful, and visionary as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith. Adichie’s Americanah won the 2013 National Book Critics…

  • Writer Jesmyn Ward reflects on survival since Katrina PBS NewsHour 2015-08-24 Gwen Ifill, Co-Anchor & Managing Editor Jesmyn Ward, Associate Professor of English Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana After writer and Tulane University professor Jesmyn Ward survived Hurricane Katrina while staying at her grandmother’s house, she wrote “Salvage the Bones,” an award-winning novel about a…

  • Amandla Stenberg Is Ready to Be Your Role Model Elle 2015-08-12 Chaedria LaBouvier The actress and activist talks exclusively to ELLE.com about everything from box braids to Black Lives Matter to her ambitions in front of and behind the camera. As one of Hollywood’s most exciting young faces and voices, Amandla Stenberg—whose first name means…

  • Tom Williams: The TNB Self-Interview The Nervous Breakdown 2015-06-24 Tom Williams, Professor of English Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky You’re a hard guy to track down. I know, I know. I’m sorry. I just have a lot of obligations and duties—many roles to play. What roles? Husband, father, son, brother, department chair, mentor, friend, book…