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Welcome to a powerful episode of the AlzAuthors Podcast featuring acclaimed author Marita Golden and her novel, The Wide Circumference of Love, as part of the Aging & Amazing Book Club series. This engaging discussion dives into the storytelling craft, the nuances of family caregiving, and the realities of Alzheimer's and dementia, especially in African American communities. An award-winning author of 22 books, Marita Golden shares her journey as a writer, from being a story-loving child in Washington, D.C., to producing literary works that explore social issues and healing. She shares how she came to write a story centered on a caregiver after immersing herself in caregiving spaces, meticulous research, and witnessing a friend's torturous battle caring for her husband. Ms. Golden shares insights into the connection between writing and healing, and how journaling and other forms of writing can be vital mental health tools that promote resilience. She also speaks to the higher rates of Alzheimer's and other dementias in the African American community, citing the lack of representation in clinical trials as one contributing factor, and speaks to why awareness and advocacy are more important now than ever. For readers and writers, Ms. Golden shares insight into the craft of writing, her writing routine, and her creative evolution. Key Takeaways: Storytelling unites families and communities, easing the isolation of caregiving and dementia.Fictional works like The Wide Circumference of Love, along with memoirs and how-to guides, are crucial for raising awareness of Alzheimer's and dementia.Journaling and creative writing document the caregiving journey and provide healing and hope for both writers and readers.The urgent need for advocacy and equity in dementia care for marginalized communities. About Marita Golden: Marita Golden is President Emeritus and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation. She is also an educator and author of fiction and nonfiction exploring Black life, identity, and resilience. Her recent memoir, How to Become a Black Writer, is available now. Find out more about Marita Golden on her website. Read Marita's AlzAuthors Blog Follow Marita Golden: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Buy Marita's books: The Wide Circumference of LoveUs Against Alzheimer's Anthology About the Podcast AlzAuthors is the global community of authors writing about Alzheimer's and dementia from personal experience to light the way for others. Our podcast introduces you to our authors who share their stories and insights to provide knowledge, comfort, and support. Please subscribe so you don't miss a word. If our authors' stories move you, please leave a review. And don't forget to share our podcast with family and friends on their own dementia journeys. We are a 501(c)(3) charitable organization totally reliant on donations to do what we do. Your generosity will help cover our many operating costs, which include website hosting and maintenance fees, service charges to keep things running smoothly, and marketing expenses to promote our authors, expand our content, improve our reach, and more. Our ongoing work supports our mission to lift the silence and stigma of Alzheimer's and other dementias. To sustain our efforts please donate here. Ideas and opinions expressed in this podcast belong to the speakers and not AlzAuthors. Always consult your healthcare provider and legal and financial consultants for advice on any of the topics covered here. Thanks for listening. We are a Whole Care Network Featured Podcast Proud to be on The Health Podcast Network Find us on The World Podcast Network and babyboomer.org Want to be on the podcast? Here's what you need to know We've got merch! Shop our Store

Welcome to a powerful episode of the AlzAuthors Podcast featuring acclaimed author Marita Golden and her novel, The Wide Circumference of Love, as part of the Aging & Amazing Book Club series. This engaging discussion dives into the storytelling craft, the nuances of family caregiving, and the realities of Alzheimer's and dementia, especially in African American communities. An award-winning author of 22 books, Marita Golden shares her journey as a writer, from being a story-loving child in Washington, D.C., to producing literary works that explore social issues and healing. She shares how she came to write a story centered on a caregiver after immersing herself in caregiving spaces, meticulous research, and witnessing a friend's torturous battle caring for her husband. Ms. Golden shares insights into the connection between writing and healing, and how journaling and other forms of writing can be vital mental health tools that promote resilience. She also speaks to the higher rates of Alzheimer's and other dementias in the African American community, citing the lack of representation in clinical trials as one contributing factor, and speaks to why awareness and advocacy are more important now than ever. For readers and writers, Ms. Golden shares insight into the craft of writing, her writing routine, and her creative evolution. Key Takeaways: Storytelling unites families and communities, easing the isolation of caregiving and dementia.Fictional works like The Wide Circumference of Love, along with memoirs and how-to guides, are crucial for raising awareness of Alzheimer's and dementia.Journaling and creative writing document the caregiving journey and provide healing and hope for both writers and readers.The urgent need for advocacy and equity in dementia care for marginalized communities. About Marita Golden: Marita Golden is President Emeritus and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation. She is also an educator and author of fiction and nonfiction exploring Black life, identity, and resilience. Her recent memoir, How to Become a Black Writer, is available now. Find out more about Marita Golden on her website. Read Marita's AlzAuthors Blog Follow Marita Golden: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Buy Marita's books: The Wide Circumference of LoveUs Against Alzheimer's Anthology About the Podcast AlzAuthors is the global community of authors writing about Alzheimer's and dementia from personal experience to light the way for others. Our podcast introduces you to our authors who share their stories and insights to provide knowledge, comfort, and support. Please subscribe so you don't miss a word. If our authors' stories move you, please leave a review. And don't forget to share our podcast with family and friends on their own dementia journeys. We are a 501(c)(3) charitable organization totally reliant on donations to do what we do. Your generosity will help cover our many operating costs, which include website hosting and maintenance fees, service charges to keep things running smoothly, and marketing expenses to promote our authors, expand our content, improve our reach, and more. Our ongoing work supports our mission to lift the silence and stigma of Alzheimer's and other dementias. To sustain our efforts please donate here. Ideas and opinions expressed in this podcast belong to the speakers and not AlzAuthors. Always consult your healthcare provider and legal and financial consultants for advice on any of the topics covered here. Thanks for listening. We are a Whole Care Network Featured Podcast Proud to be on The Health Podcast Network Find us on The World Podcast Network and babyboomer.org Want to be on the podcast? Here's what you need to know We've got merch! Shop our Store

Do you have writing and publishing goals? On this episode of the GoalChat podcast, host Debra Eckerling speaks to authors and educators Amy Friedman, Marita Golden, and Susan Shapiro. Amy Friedman is author of Desperado's Wife and publisher at Out of the Woods Press, Marita Golden's fiction and non-fiction titles include The Strong Black Woman and A Woman's Place, and Susan Shapiro's books include The Book Bible and The Byline Bible. The panel shares their love of writing, tips for getting your work out there, and more. Goals: Write Three Pages ... - Susan: About your most humiliating secret ... that you can put your name on - Amy: In a style or genre you haven't tried - Marita: From a point of view of doing something out of character Learn more: Amy Friedman: AmyFriedman.net Marita Golden: MaritaGolden.com Susan Shapiro: SusanShapiro.net Debra Eckerling: TheDEBMethod.com/blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This riveting episode of our podcast features a profound discussion with Marita Golden, the notable professor, activist, and author behind "The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women". The episode delves into the strong black woman complex, its profound effect on the black community, the unspoken world of grief endured by black women, and the importance of self-care and mental health. Tune in for a transformative conversation that challenges societal norms and seeks to rewrite the narrative around black women's mental health.Episode Chapters:1. Impact of Strong Black Woman Complex (0:00:01)2. Grieving as a Black Woman (0:12:59)3. Black Women's Mental Health and Self-Care (0:24:01)Memorable Quotes:1. "I told them I can't carry you, I can't carry my anger, I can't carry my hurt. I choose me." - Marita Golden2. "Black women need to know that Jesus did not give us a burden to carry for the rest of our lives. It's not a right that we need to protect and fight for, to carry the burdens of the nation." - Marita Golden discussing the misconceptions around strength in the black community.Connect with Marita Golden https://maritagolden.com/Watch the video podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/Q1O9WhiTMW4?si=-f8ogeRoFMJAxHjR

Those who follow this podcast, my newsletter, or have worked with me as a client know that I stress sacred rest. I call it sacred rest because it is mandatory in our lives, and you must put it in your calendar. It is not something you squeeze in when you get a moment. It is an essential part of how your chemistry works and your body, how your mind functions, and your ability to be creative and have that ability to move from your zone of excellence into your zone of genius. Our guest on Episode 7 of Unshackled Leadership: A Lantern for Black Women has written a book about self-care and explains in full detail why Black women must have it. Marita Golden is an award-winning author with more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. In 2021 she published a book called The Strong Black Woman and followed that up this year with The New Black Woman. Please allow me to introduce you to Marita Golden, a woman I have known and respected for over 30 years, and her work constantly inspires me. Her books include some of my favorites, A Woman's Place, Saving Our Sons, and Don't Play in the Sun. Each of her books is a deep dive into being Black. Her books have been hailed by fellow Black women authors such as Toni Morrison and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. In 2021 she published a book called The Strong Black Woman and followed that up this year with The New Black Woman. Please allow me to introduce you to Marita Golden, a woman I have known and respected for over 30 years, and her work constantly inspires me. She offers writing classes for a variety of genres, including biography. Marita Goldenwww.maritagolden.commaria@maritagolden.com

Novelist; cofounder of The Zora Neale Hurston Foundation.

On this episode of Black & Published, Nikesha speaks Marita Golden, author of the novel, A Woman's Place, which was first published in 1986 and is now being re-released by McSweeney's. Marita is the author of six novels as wells as memoirs and other non-fiction works. She's also the co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation and works with writers all over the world facilitating workshops to help them get their stories out.  During our conversation, Marita discusses the ruthlessness she had in writing her memoir based on what she was living through, why we shouldn't look to mainstream (white) publishing as the place where the best of Black thought has been produced, and the charge she has for the next generation of your writers to carry on. Support the show

We're back with another one of our segments, Write State of Mind, where we interview authors about mindset, their processes, and their journey. This week we have Author, Lauren Francis-Sharma! In this episode we discussed: Changing paths Getting back up after rejection Self-rejecting Lone Writing Taking chances and finding success Navigating publishing as a Black writer Writing the second book Trusting the timing for each writing project Writing during a global pandemic Therapy as an essential tool for writers Stealing time to write About Lauren Francis-Sharma: Lauren, a child of Trinidadian immigrants, has written about the Caribbean in both her best-selling novels, 'Til the Well Runs Dry and Book of the Little Axe. Lauren's most recent writings can be found in The Lily, Electric Literature, Barrelhouse, Salon, as well as Marita Golden's anthology, Us Against Alzheimer's: Stories of Family Love and Faith. Lauren holds a degree in English Literature with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Lauren, the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College, is a book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, a MacDowell Fellow, and the former owner of D.C. Writers Room. Lauren lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children and she is always working on another book. Lauren hangs out on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and her website. Find Lauren's novels in our affiliate Bookshop or via her website. Mentioned in this episode: From our affiliate account with Bookshop.org: ‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma Find out more about Writer's Atelier: www.writersatelier.com The Write Gym, our accountability and group coaching program for writers. Find Writer's Atelier on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Find out more about Racquel Henry and her books: www.racquelhenry.com Audio edited by Ali Nesbit. Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran

As an acclaimed author and veteran teacher of writing, Marita Golden provides guidance to aspiring authors on how to tell their own stories and encourages them to dig deep on their journeys as writers. The author of nineteen works of fiction and nonfiction alike, Ms. Golden digs deep during this hour of Next Steps Forward to share her stories and experiences in her own words that have informed her writing. Focusing primarily on the experiences of Black Americans, she breaks down the myth that endangers the physical and mental health of Black women as explored in her book “The Strong Black Woman.” Providing insight into the hard lessons that she and other Black women have learned, she underscores the importance of self-care and encourages the Black community to break down the stigma of seeking mental health treatment. A fierce voice on timely, important and transformative topics, she will provide her perspective on parenting Black teen boys and improving relationships among Black families. During a time that she notes the Black community is in crisis, it is especially important that our society makes a commitment to listen to and learn from the testimony of Black Americans.

As an acclaimed author and veteran teacher of writing, Marita Golden provides guidance to aspiring authors on how to tell their own stories and encourages them to dig deep on their journeys as writers. The author of nineteen works of fiction and nonfiction alike, Ms. Golden digs deep during this hour of Next Steps Forward to share her stories and experiences in her own words that have informed her writing. Focusing primarily on the experiences of Black Americans, she breaks down the myth that endangers the physical and mental health of Black women as explored in her book “The Strong Black Woman.” Providing insight into the hard lessons that she and other Black women have learned, she underscores the importance of self-care and encourages the Black community to break down the stigma of seeking mental health treatment. A fierce voice on timely, important and transformative topics, she will provide her perspective on parenting Black teen boys and improving relationships among Black families. During a time that she notes the Black community is in crisis, it is especially important that our society makes a commitment to listen to and learn from the testimony of Black Americans.

“Marita Golden's The Strong Black Woman busts the myth that Black women are fierce and resilient by letting the reader in under the mask that proclaims ‘Black don't crack.'” ―Karen Arrington, coach, mentor, philanthropist, and author of NAACP Image Award-winning Your Next Level Life Sarton Women's Book Award #1 New Release in Reference Meet Black women who have learned through hard lessons the importance of self-care and how to break through the cultural and family resistance to seeking therapy and professional mental health care. The Strong Black Woman Syndrome. For generations, in response to systemic racism, Black women and African American culture created the persona of the Strong Black Woman, a woman who, motivated by service and sacrifice, handles, manages, and overcomes any problem, any obstacle. The syndrome calls on Black women to be the problem-solvers and chief caretakers for everyone in their lives―never buckling, never feeling vulnerable, and never bothering with their pain. Hidden mental health crisis of anxiety and depression. To be a Black woman in America is to know you cannot protect your children or guarantee their safety, your value is consistently questioned, and even being “twice as good” is often not good enough. Consequently, Black women disproportionately experience anxiety and depression. Studies now conclusively connect racism and mental health―and physical health. Take care of your emotional health. You deserve to be emotionally healthy for yourself and those you love. More and more young Black women are re-examining the Strong Black Woman syndrome and engaging in self-care practices that change their lives. Listener Advisory: Please note the views may not reflect those of ECM or The Liberated Healer as a company or any of it's employees. We do not provide any medical or legal advice please consult with experts in the field if needed. If you are listening with children please take care in this might not be suitable for your children. An ElectraCast Media Networks Podcast - https://electracast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome to Episode Forty Four of Page Turn: the Largo Public Library Podcast. I'm your host, Hannah! If you enjoy the podcast subscribe, tell a friend, or write us a review! The English Language Transcript can be found below But as always we start with Reader's Advisory! The Reader's Advisory for Episode Forty Four is The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. If you like the sound of The Revisioners you should also check out: Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, and The Edge of Heaven by Marita Golden. My personal favorite Goodreads list The Revisioners is on is Book Covers That Make Me Feel Like I'm Going Insane 2. Happy Reading Everyone Today's Library Tidbit tidbit is another self-care tidbit. This December we are covering meditation and singing bowls. As always we are well aware December brings with it several stressors, even for those in our community that do not celebrate any major holidays during the month, so we like to take the December tidbit to spread some calming and centering techniques, a way to reduce some stress and lower heart rates. While some meditation is religious in nature the meditation we are talking about today is not and is being promoted solely as a health measure. Meditation will develop an awareness of self and develop mindfulness. Regular meditation reduces stress and anxiety, promotes emotional well-being, and helps someone have better sleep. There are several different types of meditation. The important thing is to find a comfortable location with as few distractions as possible. This will vary from person to person. You can meditate by simply sitting and breathing, or by focusing on a specific thought. You can also meditate through a specific task, such as coloring, playing an instrument, or movement. This is where singing bowls come in. A singing bowl, or standing bell, is a bell without a stem, supported from the bottom of the bell and the rim open at the top. These are used for a multiple of reasons, to make music, to meditate, and for religious or spiritual practice. Singing bowls come in a variety of sizes and in both metal and crystal. They are played using a striker. You can either tap the rim of the bowl to make it chime or run the striker around the edge of the bowl to make it sing. To meditate while playing a singing bowl start by making it chime or sing, whichever you prefer, and focus on the sound the bowl is making. When the noise begins to die down strike or make the bowl sing again. You can move yourself closer or farther from the bowl to hear slightly different vibrations changing the sound. You can experiment with striking the bowl with different materials, a wood striker or a felted striker. How does a singing bowl work exactly? Well, have you ever moistened your finger and then run it along the top rim of a glass to make it sing? A singing bowl works along the same principles. Your finger along the edge creates friction between your finger and the glass, the water allows this to be a smoother friction, this friction causes the glass to then vibrate. This is a stick-slip motion, the friction is the stick and the water is the slip. The vibration is transmitted through the air along a specific frequency, one which the human ear can pick up. This is the same thing that happens when you run a striker around the outside rim of the bowl. The wood or felted wood striker moving along the outside of a metal or crystal bowl creates a stick-slip motion that causes the bowl to vibrate. This means that different size bowls will vibrate at different frequency, creating different pitches! If you have several bowls you can create harmonies while they are playing. You can also change the pitch of a bowl by filling it with water. How, you may ask, can you try out a singing bowl for yourself? Well you can buy them fairly inexpensively online, however, even better,

What is the Strong Black Woman Complex and how does it censor the voice of pain? In this riveting podcast episode, author, cultural activist, and Hurston/Wright Foundation co-founder, Marita Golden, shares why women of color must begin to redefine strength. Golden's new book, "The Strong Black Woman Complex: How A Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women," is the basis for this discussion of oft-ignored topics such as colorism, rape culture, why black women fail to grieve, and destigmatizing mental health care. Order Marita Golden's new book wherever books are sold or visit newstrongblackwomen.com. Learn more about Golden's career and literary services at maritagolden.com/books Find a therapist of color at https://therapyforblackgirls.com/

Marita Golden attended public schools in Washington, D.C. and graduated from American University and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She has been a faculty member in the MFA Creative Writing Programs at George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the MA Program in Creative Writing at Johns Hopkins University and a Writer-in-Residence at the University of the District of Columbia and Prince George's Community College. She has lectured and taught internationally, at universities in Israel, Turkey, and Spain. Her many awards include the Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award presented by Poets and Writers, Distinguished Service Award from the Authors Guild, Maryland Author Award from the Association of Maryland Librarians, Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and induction into the International Literary Hall of Fame of Writers of African Descent at the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University. The Strong Black Woman Syndrome. For generations, in response to systemic racism, Black women and African American culture created the persona of the Strong Black Woman, a woman who, motivated by service and sacrifice, handles, manages, and overcomes any problem, any obstacle.  The syndrome calls on Black women to be the problem-solvers and chief caretakers for everyone in their lives―never buckling, never feeling vulnerable, and never bothering with their pain.

Marita Golden attended public schools in Washington, D.C. and graduated from American University and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She has been a faculty member in the MFA Creative Writing Programs at George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the MA Program in Creative Writing at Johns Hopkins University and a Writer-in-Residence at the University of the District of Columbia and Prince George's Community College. She has lectured and taught internationally, at universities in Israel, Turkey, and Spain. Her many awards include the Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award presented by Poets and Writers, Distinguished Service Award from the Authors Guild, Maryland Author Award from the Association of Maryland Librarians, Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and induction into the International Literary Hall of Fame of Writers of African Descent at the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University. Her articles and essays have been published in a variety of publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Essence, and The Root. Marita Golden has spoken or lectured at over 80 colleges and universities, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia College, Medgar Evers College, Brandeis University, Bethune-Cookman University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Vanderbilt University. As a literary activist, with Clyde McElvene, she cofounded the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation that has been supporting the international community of Black writers for three decades

Today's guest is Carol Bradley Bursack, an author, columnist, consultant, and speaker who provided care to a neighbor and six elderly family members over the span of two decades. This experience led her to write Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories, a portable support group for caregivers that is also used as a college text for gerontology and nursing home administration classes. Her websites Minding Our Elders and Minding Our Elders blog, include links to helpful agencies, articles rich with information and comfort, links to support groups, and resources for caregiver, boomer and elder needs. Carol also works as a consultant on aging and caregiving issues. Her newspaper column Minding Our Elders has run weekly for over 15 years, both in print and online. She is the spokesperson and writer for Egosan Products, where she writes the column “Ask Carol” on their EgosanCares.com website and manages their social media. She also moderates a paid forum for Dr. Leslie Kernisan's website Better Health While Aging. She has written for HealthCentral.com for over 14 years and for Agingcare.com for 10 years. Carol is frequently interviewed on national radio shows, including NPR's Talk of the Nation; Senior Solutions, produced by Detroit Area Agency on Aging; and Wisconsin Public Radio. She's routinely interviewed by newspapers, magazines and on major websites, including Reader's Digest (Digital), Next Avenue, Salon.com, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The USA Today Network, the Chicago-based Make It Better magazine, The Upside of Aging, Booming Encore, US News &World Report, Market Watch, and more. She is a co-moderator on the Facebook sites USagainstAlzheimers and Caregivers Committed to Wellness, as well as a contributor to Caregivers Companion and Joining the Dots on Alzheimer's. Besides authoring Minding Our Elders Carol is a contributing author to Dementia: Frank and Linda's story: New approaches, new understanding, new hope and content editor for Finding Joy in Alzheimer's: New Hope for Caregivers, by Marie Marley, Ph.D. and Daniel C. Potts, MD, FAAN (US 2015). Bursack wrote a foreword for the second edition of Wishes To Die For: Advance Care Directives that Grant Caregivers Lasting Peace, by Kevin J. Haselhorst, MD, (US 2015) as well as for Caregiving Both Ways by Molly Wisneiwski (August 2019). She is also a contributor to an anthology edited by Marita Golden titled Us Against Alzheimer's: Stories of Love, Family, and Faith (September 2019) Carol is currently working on a book that will include her signature support for caregivers and elders. The book will also delve into the many changes that have occurred in caregiving over the last two decades. She plans to include chapters on living well until we die, death with dignity, with more revealed as the book evolves. In this episode we discuss caring for our loved ones with dementia by entering their world, managing medications, and the trials and tribulations of long term care. Read Carol's AlzAuthors Post: https://alzauthors.com/2016/06/10/meet-carol-bradley-bursack-author-of-minding-our-elders/ Start reading Minding Our Elders now! Link https://amzn.to/3ahhW3a (Note: We are an Amazon Associate and may receive a small commission from book sales.) Connect with Carol Website: https://mindingourelders.com Blog: https://www.mindingoureldersblogs.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MindingOurElders/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MindingOurElders/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mindingourelder Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mindingourelder/pins/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindingourelders/ Each season our podcast brings you six of our authors sharing their dementia journeys. Please subscribe so you don't miss a word. If our authors' stories move you please leave a review. And don't forget to share our podcast with family and friends in need of knowledge, comfort and support on their own dementia journeys. AlzAuthors is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization totally reliant on donations to do what we do. Your generosity will help cover our many operating costs, which include website hosting and maintenance fees, service charges to keep things running smoothly, and marketing expenses to promote our authors, expand our content, improve our reach, and more. Our ongoing work supports our mission to lift the silence and stigma of Alzheimer's and other dementias. To sustain our efforts please visit https://alzauthors.com/donate/ . Thank you for listening.

Bringing together fourteen African-American women, author Marita Golden has compiled saucy and spicy essays that serve as an exploration into the contemporary black female psyche. These essays - nine of which were written expressly for this book - range in style and content from Audre Lorde's now-classic polemic on eroticism to Miriam DeCosta-Willis's moving essay about her husband to Audrey B. Chapman's hopeful "Black Men Do Feel About Love." Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/sweetdreams_radio)

In the September edition of Check Us Out, we discuss upcoming virtual adult school Fall programming, the New York Times database accessible with your library card, talk about many new adult and YA fall titles, and interview illustrator, Kristine Lombardi, about her new book,"The Belonging Tree." Books discussed: The Town Crazy by Suzzy Roche The Lost Writings by Franz Kafka V2 by Robert Harris Shills Can't Cash Chips by Erle Stanley Gardner Unseen City by Amy Shearn Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland Kind of a Big Deal by Shannon Hale Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith The Wide Circumference of Love by Marita Golden

On episode 22 of My American Meltingpot, we’re going to be talking about the sixth leading cause of death in America, Alzheimer’s. After all, November is National Alzheimer's Awareness Month. And yes, we’re going to talk about statistics and studies, but because this is the Meltingpot, what we're really going to focus on is the impact Alzheimer’s has in communities of color, the toll of Alzheimer’s on families and caregivers, and what we can all do to help bring more attention to finding a cure for this tragic disease that kills our loved ones, not once, but twice.  Joining me for this important conversation is journalist, award-winning author and self-proclaimed Alzheimer’s activist, Marita Golden. Golden, a literary legend, is the author of 17 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent books both deal with Alzheimer’s; The Wide Circumference of Love is a novel and Us Against Alzheimer’s is an anthology of essays and stories written by a multicultural collection of authors. Us Against Alzheimer's was just released in September of this year. There’s so much to learn about Alzheimer's and believe it or not, it’s not all bad news. I hope you listen to this important episode.  For show notes please visit MyAmericanMeltingpot.com.

Marita Golden is an Alzheimer’s activist and editor of the multi-cultural anthology, Us Against Alzheimer’s: Stories of Family Love and Faith. The program will include readings by Katia D. Ulysse and Lauren Francis-Sharma.Co-founder and President Emeritus of the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation, Marita Golden is a veteran teacher of writing and an acclaimed award-winning author of seventeen works of fiction and nonfiction. As a teacher of writing she has served as a member of the faculties of the MFA Graduate Creative Writing Programs at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MA Creative Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. Re-opening activities are made possible in part by a generous gift from Sandra R. Berman.

Marita Golden is an Alzheimer’s activist and editor of the multi-cultural anthology, Us Against Alzheimer’s: Stories of Family Love and Faith. The program will include readings by Katia D. Ulysse and Lauren Francis-Sharma.Co-founder and President Emeritus of the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation, Marita Golden is a veteran teacher of writing and an acclaimed award-winning author of seventeen works of fiction and nonfiction. As a teacher of writing she has served as a member of the faculties of the MFA Graduate Creative Writing Programs at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MA Creative Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. Re-opening activities are made possible in part by a generous gift from Sandra R. Berman.Recorded On: Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Best-selling author Marita Golden talks about her novel “The Wide Circumference of Love,” in which the real-world impact of Alzheimer's disease on the African-American community is woven into a fictionalized story. Marita tells us how writing the novel turned her into an Alzheimer's activist. She ponders some big questions about how the disease is changing America and she shares some alarming facts, uncovered during her research for the book, about the impact of Alzheimer's on communities of color. Born and raised in Washington, DC, Marita also talks about the colorful, pre-gentrified neighborhood of her youth and growing up on the same block where famed Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer spent his childhood. Note: this episode originally aired on November 16, 2017. Marita's website: http://bit.ly/2igYwBk Connect with Marita on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2iVKLrp Find her book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2jqBKdW Music: “Lakeside Path” and “Delicious” by Blue Dot Sessions | CC BY NC | Free Music Archive

Writing “The Wide Circumference of Love” turned best-selling author Marita Golden into an Alzheimer's activist. In today's show she tells us why and about the process of writing her novel, in which the real world impact of Alzheimer's disease on the African-American community is woven into a fictionalized story. Marita shares some alarming facts, uncovered during her research for the novel, about the impact of Alzheimer's on communities of color, she tells us how she was transformed by her experience of being embedded with the staff and residents of a memory care unit and she ponders some big questions about how Alzheimer's is changing America. Marita also talks about the colorful, pre-gentrified Washington, DC neighborhood where she grew up, she offers some caregiver strategies gleaned from the writing of her book and she tells us about a new anthology project to raise funds for Alzheimer's and dementia research. Marita's website: http://bit.ly/2igYwBk Connect with Marita on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2iVKLrp Amazon: http://amzn.to/2jqBKdW Link to Washington Post Magazine article: http://bit.ly/2zZsuEF Submit a short narrative for consideration in Alzheimer's caregiver anthology: info@maritagolden.com Music: “Tower of Mirrors” by Blue Dot Sessions | CC BY NC | Free Music Archive

Jan. 7, 2014. Dolen Perkins-Valdez and Marita Golden celebrate the birthday of American writer Zora Neale Hurston by reading selections from her work and discussing her influence on their own writing. Speaker Biography: Dolen Perkins-Valdez is a novelist. Speaker Biography: Marita Golden is a novelist. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6664

Marita Golden visits The Wealthy Speaker Show to share background on her new book, "The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing." Marita Golden has received practically every award in the literary field as an author, speaker and workshop presenter. Marita is an amazing women, entrepreneur and I challenge anyone to find a more accomplished author and advocate for writers. Tune in to listen to the latest and greatest from one Marita Golden, she is too cool to miss. Listen live at (646) 595-4797 and or join us on the web chat line at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/paullawrencevann

In this collection of stories, poems and essays edited by Marita Golden, African American writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms. Two of the writers featured in the collection -- Reginald Dwayne Betts and Felicia Pride -- will join Marita Golden for this reading.Marita Golden is the founder of the Hurston-Wright Foundation and the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning novel After.Recorded On: Sunday, March 29, 2009

Bestselling author Marita Golden talks to Conversations LIVE! Radio.

Marita Golden is published and author of "Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex." Heal Me Heal Me Deeply: Talking About Black and The Color Complex.