March 29th, 2024
This week we interview Joy-Ann Reid, host of MSNBC’s
The Reid Out and
a
New York Times bestselling author
. Reid’s latest book,
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America, was published by Mariner Books in February of this year. Her previous books include the bestseller
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story. Reid served as the former managing editor of
The …
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February 16th, 2024
This week we interview Rachel Jamison Webster, professor of creative writing at Northwestern University and the author of four books of poetry and cross-genre writing. Her latest book,
Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family, was published by Henry Holt and Company in March 2023. Webster has taught writing workshops through the National Urban League, Chicago Public Schools, Gallery 37, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art, working to bring diversity…
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September 3rd, 2021
In this week’s episode, we interview Tamara Payne. Working with her late father, the award-winning and New York-based print journalist Les Payne, Tamara Payne co-wrote
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.
Published in October 2020 by Liveright, this biography of the charismatic and controversial Muslim leader known as Malcolm X earned a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Tamara Payne was interviewed in her home in New York City on…
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