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The MLK library is home to D.C.'s People's Archive, a living breathing collection honoring the city's cultural, social, and political history. Program Coordinator Maya Thompson and Archivist Derek Gray join us to explain how the archive preserves and celebrates Black History, and why right now, that's more important than ever. After the interview, senior executive producer Priyanka Tilve joins for a conversation sponsored by Alliance Francaise, about the organization's exciting summer opportunities.  To learn more about opportunities at Alliance Francaise, check out francedc.org.  Don't forget to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey DC. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE And we'd love to feature you on the show! Share your DC-related thoughts, hopes, and frustrations with us in a voicemail by calling 202-642-2654. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The DC public library is officially kicking off its annual dinosaur roar competition. In the past, the contest has been so popular it's gone global, and the children's librarian behind the whole thing, Elaine Pelton, explains what that says about our city, and how you can join the competition.  Want some more DC news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey DC. You can subscribe by just texting “DC” to 66866. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a big fight going on over adding more flights to DCA — which side should you be on? Plus, Britt Peterson is here to talk about her Washingtonian expose about the scandal that brought down Casa Ruby, a once-celebrated refuge for Trans kids in D.C. And City Cast DC's Priyanka Tilve is here with some Juneteenth events you gotta attend. Check out these stories that fueled our episode:  Cuneyt Dil from Axios has the latest on the DCA fight. Britt's piece about Casa Ruby is a must-read. Subscribe to our newsletter Hey DC for event suggestions! Just text “DC” to 66866. Also, here's your DC Life Hack: You can get free access to the NYTimes and Washington Post through the DCPL website. All. you need is a library card.  Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

**From 2018**On this episode of DCPL Presents, we sit down with Carolyn Becker, digital communications manager of Goodwill Greater Washington and founder of the popular Instagram account, DC Vegan Life. With a passion for sustainable living and tasty vegan treats, Caroyln explores how she uses social media to create community, promote sustainability, and ways you can, too!

PJ Starks and Eric Huskisson from the Owensboro-based Blood Moon Pictures join us for this episode of the podcast. PJ, as you may know, is the father of Unscripted: An Indie Film Experience. He brought the idea to DCPL roughly ten years ago and we ran with it. PJ, Eric, and I discuss the early days of the series, the intensity of the Volumes of Blood shoot, and their two post-VOB films, VOB 2: Horror Stories and 13 Slays till X-mas. Join us at 7 pm on August 20 for the third night of Unscripted 2022. We will screen three segments from 13 Slays with PJ & Eric in attendance to deliver a live commentary. If you're listening to this after the August 20, we encourage you to get a time machine. We're sure it'll be a lot of fun. Music: "Chips" by Havilina Rail Co. * * = Mat Wignall gave me permission to use this as a podcast theme years ago. Mat, if you see this and change your mind, please let me know.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the John Newbery Medal, children's staff at the DC Public Library discuss their favorite books that have won the prize, one of the two most prestigious awards for children's literature in the United States.

We've tracked down another of our white whales, having gotten ahold of the 1987 department store rom com Mannequin via DCPL's DVD collection. Join in as we discuss Kim Cattrall, sequel titles, animated credits, and department store finances. Plus: Are the Egyptian gods real? What does Emy want? Will Avatar 2 come out this year? And, most importantly, what are the rules??? Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe! Next week: The Room (2003) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/we-love-the-love/message

Music in this episode is adapted from DCPL's American Song database. A complete list of the library's music streaming databases can be found here.

Introduction to Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project Interview with Edith Crutchfield, Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project Interview with Reverend Irene Pierce, Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project Interview with Deacon Clarence Haywood, Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project Chip Py Go-Go Collection Friday Morning Music Club Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis Posters Check out a copy of The Warm of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson at DCPL

Click here for more information about the Tour de DCPL, the library's city-wide bike tour of Washington, DC.

Joanna and Amanda discuss “The Binding” by Bridget Collins, make cultural allegories, and historical-pop culture references

Find more resources about digital preservation and personal archiving in DCPL's Memory Lab Libguide.

In celebration of Black History Month, we premiere the NINTH&G podcast in conversation with local architect Peter Cook. With a portfolio that includes the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Watha T. Daniels/Shaw Library, and the embassy of South Africa, Peter shares his roots in the District and the field of design, his experience designing in the city, and what lesson his family and mentors carry with him today in his work. Joining us is our guest co-host, Kerrie Cotten Williams, Manager of The People's Archive at DC Public Library. NINTH&G celebrates those in and around the nation's capital doing the extraordinary. Hosted by Ryan L. Williams of DC Public Library, look for new episodes every two weeks. Be sure to subscribe to the DC Public Library podcasts for our array of programming.

Music in this episode is adapted from DCPL's American Song database. A complete list of the library's music streaming databases can be found here.

Amanda and Robert interview Maryann James-Daley and Ryan Williams on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library opening ceremony, their impressions of the pre- and post-renovation and visions for the library's future.

Kerrie Cotten Williams, People's Archive Manager, in conversation with Xenobia Bailey, artist, the 'aesthetic of funk', on her mural for the Grand Reading Room at the historic, modernized, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.

Join Casey, Jervey, Olubunmi and Will as they discuss their quarantine projects, MLK's reopening, first impressions of the Labs, and the launch of 'DCPL Podcast' recorded from the Recording Studio at the historic, modernized, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.

Author Keven McQueen (The Kentucky Book of the Dead) and author-visual artist-musician JD Wilkes (The Vine That Ate The South) visited DCPL back in March for a conversation about their history, influences, and work. As a bonus, JD also plays some tunes. Thanks to the Gaslight Boys for opening up the event. Look 'em up on Spotify. PS: We had some recording issues. Blame the muffling and volume levels on yours truly. For that, to the listeners & guests, I do apologize. Intro music: "Wabash Blues" from JD & Charlie Stamper's great record, Cattle in the Cain.

David Quick asks some of DC's most well read readers, how has reading changed during social distancing? The conversation includes Lupita Aquino (LupitaReads), Nick Brown of Prince Georges County Memorial Library, Chantal Tseng of Literary Cocktails, and DCPL's own Aja Clark. Powered and distributed Simplecast.

To finish out the DCPL live show, Noah and Henry were joined by Marcus Goodwin. Marcus is running for DC City Council in November and swung by to talk about his decision to run, his vision / plans for the city and takes questions from audience! Marcus can be followed on all social media at @ GoodWinforDC. Follow, review , subscribe and comment on Soundcloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts! Twitter: @ _WRGO Instagram: @ whatsreallygoing Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJNDaY976EVB9jNiA0iuj2g

Today's DCPL Presents focused on a conversation with Ashleigh Coren, Women’s History Content and Interpretation Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. In addition to discussing the DCPL/NPG program ArtAfterWords, we discussed her work as a librarian working on women's representation at the Smithsonian Institution. ArtAfterWords offers participants a chance to discuss a book and portrait, and February's discussion will focus on a portrait of Angela Davis and Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

In this special recording, designer, Supernaturalist, cultural activist and fiber artist Xenobia Bailey is in conversation with DCPL Artist in Residence Tsedaye Makonnen discussing her process, work and inspirations. Xenobia Bailey studied ethnomusicology at the University of Washington, it was there that her interest in craftsmanship and fabric took full bloom. She worked as a costume designer for the renowned African-American community theater, Black Arts West, until her acceptance into Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1974. She received her BA in industrial design while she learned to crochet under needle artist, Bernadette Sonona, after which she began to create and sell colorful crocheted hats inspired by distinctly African-American patterns, themes and hairstyles. Bailey is best known for her eclectic crochet hats and large scale crochet mandalas, consisting of colorful concentric circles and repeating patterns. Her pieces are often connected to her ongoing project "Paradise Under Reconstruction in the Aesthetic of Funk". Her designs draw influences from in Africa, China, and Native American and Eastern philosophies, with undertones of the 1970's funk aesthetic. Her hats have been featured in United Colors of Beneton Ads, on The Cosby Show, and in the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing (worn by Samuel L. Jackson as DJ Mister Señor Love Daddy). Bailey has been artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in New York City. Her work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Jersey City Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Her work is in the permanent collections at Harlem's Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Allentown Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Arts, and the Museum of Arts and Design. Tsedaye Makonnen is an Ethiopian-American interdisciplinary artist, a mother and a former doula. Recurring themes present in her work are identity, colorism, womanhood, ritual and kinship. She's particularly drawn to conveying the African Diaspora's creative responses to assimilating, destroying and recreating the Self within new and/or hostile territories, whether that happens to be a new country or a hospital room. As of late, she has been connecting the forced migrations taking place in DC and abroad through performance art and installations.

In conversation with Katie Petitt on the upcoming exhibit at the Northeast Neighborhood Library. Katie will share her work that centers around activism, grassroots organizing, and movement building through the arts, film, and technology. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

DCPL’s Robert LaRose interviews Molly Keefe about her experiences using the Memory Lab to preserve thousands of her family's photos and VHS tapes. Powered and distributed by Simplecast

DCPL’s Robert LaRose interviews Rebecca Kling about her experiences using the Memory Lab to preserve her collection of family videos. Her story focuses on her life as a transgender woman and activist, as well as memories of her pre-transition childhood. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Editors Derek Guthrie and Al Jirikowic discuss the publishing history of the New Art Examiner and its relationship to the DC arts scene. Powered and distributed by Simplecast

Author Sherry Robinson discusses her latest book Blessed. Like what you hear? If so, head over to https://smpbooks.com/ (or Amazon, or DCPL) to pick up a copy. NOTE: We didn't have the crowd mic'd during the Q&A session, so the questions are difficult to hear. We apologize for this inconvenience.

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On this episode of DCPL Presents, DC Public Library’s Special Collections Manager, Kerrie Williams, and Labs Library Associate, Portia Oliver, sit down with Dr. Natalie Hopkinson, Ph.D. to discuss the history and preservation of #DontMuteDC.

On this episode of DCPL Presents we chat with local Public Relations Strategist Joseph Pate to discuss social media activism, cancel culture, and how you can use YOUR social media to support the causes that matter to you.

On this episode of Notes from the Library, we meet the team behind DC Public Library’s Jail Branch. The Jail Branch opened in 2015 inside the DC Central Detention Facility and serves over 2000 inmates. Learn about the Jail Branch’s library services and programming on this episode.

On this episode of DCPL Presents, we highlight a program at the Northeast Neighborhood Library with Preserve This Podcast (PTP) project. Preserve This Podcast will discuss issues related to preserving born-digital files used in podcasting. Guests will include Mary Kidd and Sarah Nguyen who talk about their work on the project. Listeners will also be introduced to the DCPL Memory Lab and the services it provides.

On Thursday, June 20, Washington, D.C. will become the capitol of the library world as thousands of librarians, library workers, students, scholars, and vendors descend upon the district for the American Library Association’s 2019 Annual Conference and Exhibition. In Episode 39, Dewey Decibel explores where to eat and see live music during Annual. First, American Libraries Managing Editor Terra Dankowski speaks with Meredith Prattt, author of Frommer’s EasyGuide to Washington, D.C. 2020, about the best places to dine in the district. Next, American Libraries Senior Editor and Dewey Decibel host Phil Morehart talks with Maggie Gilmore, librarian at Washington, D.C. Public Library (DCPL), and Bobbie Dougherty, manager of DCPL’s Northwest One branch, about DCPL’s Punk Archive and their favorite places to see live music.

You are now entering the Library-verse. Today we meet Julia and Tracy and learn more about the personalities behind the roles at DCPL.

You are now entering the Library-verse. Today we meet Amy and B and learn more about the personalities behind the roles at DCPL.

You are now entering the Library-verse. Today we meet Diamond and Jordan and learn more about the personalities behind the roles at DCPL.

Our guest is social worker Jean Badalamenti, the Health and Human Services Assistant Manager at the Washington, D.C. Public Library. In her role with the library, she leads system-wide initiatives in a variety of areas. Since 2014, she has been developing programs, creating partnerships, and training DCPL staff to support customers experiencing homelessness. She also manages DCPL’s library at the DC jail in partnership with the DC Department of Corrections.

You are now entering the Library-verse. Today we meet David and Xeryus and learn more about the personalities behind the roles at DCPL.

In anticipation of the film debut of If Beale Street Could Talk, DCPL staff will discuss James Baldwin's original book with Derrick Young of Mahagony Books.

A CryptoParty is a free, public gathering to learn different approaches to privacy and security for your computers, mobile devices, social media, and other digital platforms. Listen to learn why digital prvacy & security matters, and learn some strategies for staying safe online.

Talking about the upcoming exhibition and performance series, RETROperSPECTIVE - a collaboration between DC Public Library and Rhizome DC. We'll also discuss the process of archiving and digitizing the DC Punk Archive Zine Collection

Straight from the main DCPL offices at K street, Aja Clark and David Quick will talk all things library including a Summer Challenge wrap-up, what books we're reading, and the library's best money-saving options.

In conversation with Anu Yadav, DC Public Library's 2018 Artist-in-Residence, on "Soul Tent Stories"

Dekalb Public Library Author's Expo at Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library. A brief talk about and reading from award winning I am Crocodile! children's reader.

Winners from a poetry slam held earlier in the month at Busboys & Poets will read original poetry written about inequality, civil rights and more. This project is part of a collaboration between the DC Public Library, the Maryland Institute College of Arts and the Poor People's Campaign. 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement and we, collaboratively, are still working on these issues.

Dr. Sandra Butler-Truesdale, Chairperson of The DC Legendary Musicians, and host of "Don't Forget the Blues" on WPFW FM 89.3 every Wednesday at noon EST, sits with us to talk about her work, DC history, and shares stories about the many lengendary musicicans that live in DC.

Nick Petr and Anu Yadav, The Poor People's Campaign

We’ve been working on a documentary podcast about the filmmaker Melton Barker for quite some time. That’s not ready quite yet, but we do have some Barker-related goodness for you. Who’s Melton Barker, you ask? That’s a question not many can answer. He was what’s known as an “iterant” filmmaker who was active in the 30s through the 70s. He visited small towns across the United States during that time to make the same film over 200 times with a cast of untrained local children. That film was The Kidnapper’s Foil. Barker came to Owensboro in 1938. Sadly, like many other versions of The Kidnapper’s Foil, that film has been lost. The script is still available, though! Sarah Jacobs and Wesley Johnson of DCPL got together with a few kids (cast list below) to make a podcast version. This episode is fully comprised of that effort. Note: We used the original script, but, due to the format, we altered it a bit. There's now a narration to explain some of the elements that didn't translate well. The Narrator: Wesley Johnson Kidnapper 1: Gus Lattas Kidnapper 2: Hank Dotsey Betty Davis: Kaytlyn Meyer Dad: Logan Mills Butch: Samuel Hadden Jean Davis: Sarah Edge Young 1-2: Franny Hoffman Young 3-4: Elizabeth Ford Boys 1-2: Easton Crisp Boy 3: Colben Settle Boys 4-5: Jayln Griffith Girls 1-2: Lily Boling Girls 3-4: Rachel Kyle Additional Writing: Christina Clary, Wesley Johnson Visit MeltonBarker.org to learn more about his work. Thanks to the folks who run that site for providing some information to us. Music: "Belgian Waffles" & "Mario" by Underscore Orkestra both appear on their record, Table Dance (Bad Panda Records). The music is licensed under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Check 'em out here; http://www.theunderscoreorkestra.com/.

In conversation with Mary Ghikas, Executive Director of the American Library Association, on the changing information field, libraries, and communities.

Marya McQuirter talks to us about the dc1968project. This past Saturday, April 7, 2018, 50 years after the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Marya joined other Washingtonians at Anacostia Library for DCPL's "Pop-Up Museum: Your D.C. Stories 1968 - 2018." Each day, Dr. McQuirter shares stories and photos about an event that happened on that same day in 1968. If you or a family member were in DC in 1968, she’d love to share your stories and photos on her site, dc1968project.com

DCPL Presents Andrew White, Northeast, Washington, DC, multi-instrumentalist and "self-producer." A conversation about his origins, life as a musician and businessman, and we're listening to "Shaft Blues" and "Superfly Blues" from his 1974 record "Passion Flower"

On this week's episode of DCPL's "All Things Local", host Olubunmi Bakare is joined by Dianne Dale, author of "The Village That SHaped Us". According to Dr. Thomas Battle, director emeritus of the Moorland-Spingarn Center at Howard University, The Village That Shaped Us sets the standard for how to look at a community. Using oral history interviews in the way of Anna Deavere Smith and Studs Terkel to tell the story of a Freedmen's Village settled in 1867 on a hill overlooking the nation's capital in SE Washington, DC, the reader is taken on a journey into a community sold to blacks by the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War. Sale of the land and life in the community led to such events as the establishment of Howard University, the Tuskegee Airmen program at Tuskegee Institute (now University), and Brown v. Board of Education. In a series of oral history interviews copiously illustrated with over 300 pictures and documents, the book takes you on a journey through the history of a neighborhood; safe, industrious, self-sufficient, now gone through changes brought by or through the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation ruling marking the beginning of changes that devastated the landscape of this quiet village--chopped to pieces by highways, byways, bridges, flight to the suburbs and urban renewal. It chronicles in plain language the inevitable decline of a community that mirrors the devastation wreaked in comparable communities across the country.

After our recent screening of Ava DuVernay's The 13th, guest speaker Richard Jones, a community leader from Paducah, joined us to talk about his time served in prison for drug charges and the effort he has put in to expunging his record. The event was sponsored by the AAUW, the NAACP, the Black Expo, the Ministerial Association, the OHRC, and DCPL.

A couple of weeks back, Brandon played the Daviess County Public Library for one of their "Coloring Club" events, something Why They Came and Taylor from Wintering have also played. Afterward, Brandon got to chat with Information Services and Library Associate Lisa Maiden about the Coloring Club, other events at the DCPL, and why it's so important for local libraries to support local art.The Daviess County Public Library has been really good to us over the years, so we hope you'll give this "friends of the family" episode a listen, and support your local library!Weekly Download (FREE to our Supporters on Patreon):"Open Hands" by Sempervivi (2015)Music Video Premiere Thursday, August 4th:https://www.facebook.com/events/617231815118548Help support our efforts at the label by contributing to our page on Patreon. Visit http://www.patreon.com/badapplerecords and give as little as $1 per month and enjoy new music every single week. Get our entire catalog, including every new release along the way, for as little as $3 per month.Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spreaker, or the iOS Podcasts app! Make sure to tell your friends...http://www.badapplerecords.nethttp://www.patreon.com/badapplerecordshttp://www.facebook.com/badapplerecordshttp://www.instagram.com/badapplerecordshttp://www.twitter.com/badapplerecords