HT, Sweetness and Arletti: Bike Adventures is a story of three friends bicycle ride through their neighborhood to the horse stables in the park, where they visit their horse friends–Buckeye, Pony Express and Jezebel.
Apr 8, 2020
6 min
Fossie Bear Plays Saxophone is a story loosely based on the life of composer, jazz soloist—baritone, alto, soprano saxes, clarinet, flute, vocalist—and band leader Fostina Dixon. It came to me after a concert. I remembered the electric energy that flowed through Fostina the first time I heard her play. A vision of a little girl, […]
Mar 23, 2020
7 min
The story – Magic Ella’s Garden – comes from what I heard about a neighborhood garden’s origin, coupled with looking at the garden, its beautiful people and plants, and my fantastical imagining.
Mar 15, 2020
5 min
The Gift of the Alien Queen is a delightful science fiction story written by Bindu Nicholson, my niece, on one of her first ventures into science fiction.  
Mar 2, 2020
11 min
First in a series of stories of Letty, her daily life and adventures. This story introduces Letty, her friends and relatives and more. Hear Carletta Joy Walker STORIES W/THE ECLECTIC LIBRARIAN Thursdays at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum for Art & Storytelling
Feb 10, 2020
11 min
Sapphire: She live in full-spectrum truth-light*poet*novelist*performance poet*dancer*teacher— “I have brought into the public gaze women who have been marginalized by sexual abuse, poverty, and their blackness. Through art I have sought to center them in the world.”—her first novel, Push continues to focus public gaze, as does her subsequent novel The Kid. Interview first aired […]
Jan 15, 2020
28 min
Ntozake Shange: She live in music-light & love innovating poet*spoken-word artist*dancer*novelist* playwright* mother*very known for gift— “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,”—that keeps giving*born October 18, 1948 Trenton, NJ,—died October 27, 2018 Bowie, MD Interview first aired on Joy Journal Program – WBAI, Pacifica radio
Jan 15, 2020
54 min
Jayne Cortez: She Visionary poet *cultural worker*mother*grandmother*director, known for Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future (1999)…*born May 10, 1934 in Fort Huachuca, Arizona—died December 28, 2012 in Manhattan, New York City* Interview first aired on Joy Journal Program – WBAI, Pacifica radio
Jan 15, 2020
45 min