Category: Audio

  • U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16) Natasha Trethewey New Letters On The Air 2016-02-12 Catalog Number: 20160212 Angela Elam, Producer/Host In the first part of this interview, Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey talks about her work that deals with history, racism, and family, including her first creative non-fiction book, Beyond Katrina:…

  • Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book “Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865” (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate political reaction to the Haitian Revolution, but traces how writers, novelists, playwrights, and scholars…

  • Ep 10 – Thriving as a Social Media Activist Black Women Who Lead 2015-11-29 Marsha Philitas, Host Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Scholar Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics Massachusetts Institute of Technology In this episode, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, the 63rd Black American woman to earn a…

  • New Generation Thinkers: The Moor of Florence – A Medici Mystery Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 2015-11-09 2015 Festival, The Free Thinking Essay For over 400 years it’s been claimed that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race, his mother a slave of African descent. Catherine Fletcher of Swansea University asks if this…

  • Growing up in San Antonio, [Adriana] Brown said she struggled to find other representations of herself — an Afro-Latina woman from a working class family — both in her community and literature.

  • Colorism The Podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You 2016-04-13 Cristen Conger, Co-host Caroline Ervin, Co-host Why does lighter skin improve women’s chances of getting through school, getting a job and getting married? Cristen and Caroline explore the historical roots, repercussions and cross-cultural shades of colorism around the world. Listen to the episode (00:48:48) here. Download…

  • Michele Elam: “The Souls of Mixed Folk” (NBAAS, 31/10/12) YouTube Race & Ethnicity Archive 2016-03-19 “What are you?” The question can often comes out of nowhere One can be going about her quotidian activities, or she might have just finished a meeting at work. “What are you?” The question is disorienting for most, but for…

  • Jackie Kay the new Scots Makar, Shaping the Body Woman’s Hour BBC Radio 4 2016-03-25 The acclaimed writer Jackie Kay has just been announced as the next Scots Makar – Scotland’s national poet. She tells Jenni about the plans she has for her new role. Today a new exhibition examining how food, fashion and lifestyle…

  • “For seven days in June 2015, Rachel Dolezal captured the news cycle,” writes University of Montana professor, Tobin Shearer, for “Reflections West.”

  • Meet Yaba Blay WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio 2016-03-07 Charlie Shelton, Digital News Producer Frank Stasio, Host “The State of Things” Yaba Blay is the Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science at N.C. Central University Sabriya Simon Growing up in New Orleans, Yaba Blay saw firsthand the different roles one navigates as an…