The year is 1982, and the people of the Hudson Valley community of Fervent have begun to move on from a homicide that upended the once quiet town. When the former neighbors who were convicted of the crime, James and Ella White, are proven innocent, released from prison, ...

This powerful and timely collection of essays offers piercing insights into the realities of racism, sexism, homophobia, and the damaging legacy of Donald Trump's divisive presidency. With Trump mounting another run for the White House in 2024 amid the fallout of the Jan...

[This program originally aired May 5, 2011.  We rebroadcast it August 1, 2024 when Kamala Harris became the first Black woman nominated candidate for President.  We are airing again today to honor the memory of our hero, Avel Gordly, the first Black woman to win a seat i...

Everybody Reads 2026 celebrates Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s  book, Lovely One.  In addition to distributing 8,000 free copies of Lovely One through libraries and high schools, the library also offers a series of events related to the  program.  All are free to the pu...

New Year, new outlooks.  Emma Jackson Ford, O.B. Hill and Patricia Welch discuss favorite titles that inspire fresh points of view.

O.B. Hill, Emma Jackson and Patricia Welch share some favorite titles.  Reflecting their individual interests, suggestions range from classics,  like The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson, to the recently published, beautifully illustrated The History of We ...

In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000.  "We Are Each Other's Harvest" brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories that examine black people’s connection to the American land f...

TEMPEST follows Veronique (a.k.a. V) who, after her parents' death in Hurricane Katrina, moved to her MawMaw’s house in the Louisiana countryside. MawMaw always said that Veronique needed to hide her control and power over the wind, but one day, she has to use it to save...

As attempts to ignore, refute, or even remove African-Americans' contributions to the American record, we at "Black Book Talk" continue to affirm Black history and culture as expressed through our literature.  To this end, we rebroadcast our November 2021 conversation ...