June 27th, 2025
Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance is the latest book by this award-winning journalist and author. Published by Scribner this June, it is the first major biography of Bundles’ great-grandmother. Bundles, a Forbes Magazine’s 50 Over 50 Impact honoree, also authored
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, a
New York Times Notable Book and bestseller about her great-great-grandmother, an early 20th-century hair care industry entrepreneur and…
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April 18th, 2025
This celebrated documentary filmmaker is the recipient of the 2025 BIO Award – Biographers International Organization’s annual recognition of a distinguished colleague who has made significant contributions to the art and craft of biography. Dawn Porter’s documentaries include rich biographical explorations of John Lewis, Lady Bird Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy and Luther Vandross. For her impressive body of work, Porter has earned Peabody, NAACP and Gracie Awards, along with the National Humanities Medal, the Critics’…
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May 24th, 2024
This week we interview award-winning author and first-time biographer, Barbara D. Savage. Her latest book,
Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar, is an incisive examination of a scholar who thrived despite steep obstacles, taking her from a farm in the Midwest to Kalamazoo to London and to the world beyond.
Merze Tate was published by Yale University Press in November 2023. Savage is a historian and the Geraldine R. Segal Professor…
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February 2nd, 2024
This week we interview Tanisha C. Ford, a cultural critic, educator, and author. Her latest book,
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon, and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement, was published by Amistad in October 2023. Ford has written for the
New York Times,
the Atlantic,
Time,
the Root,
Elle,
Harper’s Bazaar, and she’s been featured on NPR, among other places. She was named to the…
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