Podcast appearances and mentions of Toni Cade Bambara

Edgar Fabián Frías is an artist, therapist, educator, curator, witch and so much more.Today, they join me on the podcast to talk about the decision they made to quiet quit Instagram at the start of 2025.Together, we explore:The works of art that changed our lives & nonlinear psychic collaborationBeing impersonated on Instagram & how that can impact your businessWhat happens when Meta starts suspending queer artistsHow Edgar blended career paths & built new channels away from social media (including their podcast Your Art is a Spell!)Feeling safer after stepping back from so much public sharingWhy the era of social media is dying Tune in for an inspiring conversation in the spirit of Toni Cade Bambara, who teaches us that — “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible.”  RESOURCES + LINKS

In photos of the January 4 1993 Ogoni rally, Ken Saro-Wiwa stands out. You can sense his passion, his energy but more curiously his pull. These are very dangerous times to be protesting. Only days before, the Babangida military regime had placed a ban on public gatherings. So what was it about the Ogoni movement that made it (to borrow from the American writer, Toni Cade Bambara ) ‘irresistible' to Saro-Wiwa? Saro-Wiwa was pretty well off and could have lived a much more convenient, non-political life. At the same time, Nigeria is a highly unequal society where the wealthy are often out of touch. This was true even back then; so what was it about Saro-Wiwa that made him connect not just materially with Ogoni people but philosophically, almost spiritually; enough to make them risk even death in joining him on this march?In this episode, Wale Lawal finds some answers. Learn more at ⁠republic.com.ng/podcasts/⁠.The Republic is currently on an editorial break and show notes will be available on our website by 31 January 2025.*Correction: at 29:14, Wale says General Murtala Muhammed became head of state. This is an error. General Muhammed led the 1966 coup but General Yakubu Gowon became head of state. This will be corrected in the audio as soon as possible.

In this episode we speak with Professor Randi Gill-Sadler about various published and unpublished works of writers and filmmakers Toni Cade Bambara and Gloria Naylor.  Randi Gill-Sadler is a teacher, scholar, and writer. She received her PhdD in English and her graduate certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Florida. Her research and teaching interests include 20th century African American and Afro-Caribbean women's literature, U.S. Cultures of Imperialism, and theories of Black diasporic relation and anticolonialism. Her work has been published in Feminist Formations, Small Axe, Radical History Review, and Oxford American magazine. She is currently writing her first book which revisits the Black women's literary renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s  to explore how Black women writers like Paule Marshall, June Jordan, Gloria Naylor, and Toni Cade Bambara reckoned with African Americans' growing conscription into U.S. imperial exploits in their fiction, poetry, and film.  For this discussion Josh talks to Professor Gill-Sadler about how Bambara and Naylor navigated the academy, spaces of cultural production, while maintaining anti-imperialist politics, and putting their skills to work for local movements and causes, while also connecting the local to the international. Just a quick note that on the video side of things, due to a pipe leak my studio has been out of commission and will continue to be for about the next month. That's why we haven't been hosting livestreams recently. We hope to have that resolved by sometime in January and have plans to continue using the video form. But in the meantime we'll be releasing audio episodes. You can catch up on the 139 livestreams we hosted there over the past year at YouTube.com/@MAKCapitalism If you appreciate the work that we do, please consider becoming a patron of the show. You can do so for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism This episode is edited & produced by Aidan Elias. Music, as always, is by Televangel Links: "Taking Over, Living In: Black Feminist Geometry and the Radical Politics of Repair" by R. Gill-Sadler and Erica R. Edwards     "The Minister of Mercy is a Homegirl"     "Toward a Radical Cinematic Horizon: The Unrealized Works of Toni Cade Bambara and Gloria Naylor"    For another conversation on the Atlanta Missing & Kidnapped Children's Case (in the context of the context of the moral panic about kidnapping in the late 70's and 1980's), see our conversation with Paul Renfro on his book Stranger Danger.   

A short take on a story by Toni Cade Bambara Written by Kenton RambsyRead by Kassandra Timm

On this episode of BMU, the guys start with a discussion of the murder of Sonya Massey and the challenge of contending with myriad incidents of police brutality. If you want to skip this part, the second half of the discussion of All About Love: New Visions begins at 24:22. BMU Summer Book Club continues with a review of bell hooks' incredible characterization of love. This episode references Is God a White Racist? A Preamble to Black Theology by William R. Jones and The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara.

On this episode of BMU, the guys start with a discussion of the murder of Sonya Massey and the challenge of contending with myriad incidents of police brutality. If you want to skip this part, the second half of the discussion of All About Love: New Visions begins at 24:22. BMU Summer Book Club continues with a review of bell hooks' incredible characterization of love. This episode references Is God a White Racist? A Preamble to Black Theology by William R. Jones and The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara.

Most widely recognized for his paintings that rigorously combine spray paint, stenciled geometric forms, and brushstrokes, the Brooklyn-based artist Adam Pendleton is also known for his “Black Dada” framework, an ever-evolving philosophy that investigates various relationships between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. Many will recognize Pendleton's work from “Who Is Queen?,” his 2021 solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, which he has said was his way of “trying to overwhelm the museum.” This is a natural position for him: His works in and of themselves are often overwhelming. At once political and spiritual, they provoke deep introspection and consideration, practically demanding viewers to look, and then look again.On this episode, he discusses the elusive, multifarious nature of “Black Dada”; “An Abstraction,” his upcoming exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York (on view from May 3–August 16); painting as a kind of technology; and why, for him, jazz is indefinable.Special thanks to our Season 9 presenting sponsor, L'École, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Adam Pendleton[05:00] Joan Retallack[05:00] Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths[05:22] “Becoming Imperceptible”[07:41] Ishmael Houston-Jones[07:41] Joan Jonas[07:41] Lorraine O'Grady[07:41] Yvonne Rainer[07:41] Jack Halberstam[14:26] Fred Moten[05:22] “Who Is Queen?”[23:50] Hugo Ball's Dada Manifesto[23:50] Amiri Baraka's “Black Dada Nihilismus”[31:14] Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum[31:14] “System of Display”[31:14] “Reading Dante”[34:40] “Adam Pendleton” at Pace Gallery[34:40] “An Abstraction” at Pace Gallery[34:40] Arlene Shechet[34:40] “Adam Pendleton x Arlene Shechet”[40:30] “Blackness, White, and Light” at MUMOK[45:07] “Twenty-One Love Poems” by Audrienne Rich[50:40] “Occupy Time” by Jason Adams[56:04] “What It Is I Think I'm Doing Anyhow” by Toni Cade Bambara[57:13] “Some Thoughts on a Constellation of Things Seen and Felt” by Adrienne Edwards

Join Eric Mann and Channing Martinez as they discuss the LA Times Festival of Books and the Strategy and Soul Bookstore's second time hosting a booth at the Festival. Eric and Channing name a fraction of the list of books that the Strategy and Soul bookstore will host. Eric reads from Black Jacobins by CLR James and The Black Woman by Toni Cade Bambara. Join the Strategy and Soul bookstore on April 20-21 at the LA Times Festival of Books. Booth #241 in the purple section at the University of Southern California.

Hosts Frankie and Zorian share about their trans experience, exploring the spectrum of feelings from shame and resistance to beauty and liberation all in the effort to be their full, true selves.Contents & Content Warnings…Please expect to hear “queer” used as an identity term throughout this episode & series. 00:00 - Introduction from Zorian - What makes you feel most like yourself?1:16 - Meet Zorian & Frankie 2:02 - Let's talk HRT - Hormone Replacement Therapy7:10 - Ari & Sam In this segment, please expect to hear mentions & discussions of…Shame & internalized biasDesire, sex & sexuality TransphobiaWhite supremacy & racism17:15 - Zorian's Transition Journey 21:05- 22:20 - Instances of homophobic/transphobic rhetoric 23:30 - What is Gender Dysphoria? What about Gender Euphoria?26:10 - Frankie's Transition Journey 28:23 - Masculinities & Toxic MasculinityBeginning at 30:40, please expect to hear mentions & discussions of…Death & griefHomelessness & being forced out of one's homeParental estrangement Homophobia & Transphobia38:52 - Queer Youth Animated: Kiwi40:25 - 40:30 - Instances of hate speech40:30 - 40:47 - Mention of familial conflict, being forced out of one's home43:28 - Outro 43:26 - Coming up next44:07 - Show notes & resources44:54 - CreditsFPP Information…To learn more about The Future Perfect Project and all of our free arts programming for LGBTQIA+ youth, visit thefutureperfectproject.org or find us on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and bandcamp @thefutureperfectprojectCrisis Resources… If you or a young person you know between the ages of 13-24 is currently in crisis, check out thetrevorproject.org for LGBTQIA+-specific support through text and chat, or call 1-866-488-7386.Mentions… “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” - Toni Cade BambaraThis quotation is most commonly attributed to a compilation of conversations with Toni Cade Bambara, appropriately titled “Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara,” edited by Thabiti Lewis. Find more information on this author, documentarian, activist, teacher, and speaker is available online and through libraries & other places of education throughout the world. Keep an eye (and ear) out for season two of I'm Feeling Queer Today, coming September 2024, and look forward to some bonus content in the interim!View Kiwi's animatied story at https://www.youtube.com/@TheFuturePerfectProjectCredits…I'm Feeling Queer Today is produced by The Future Perfect Project with support from Radio Kingston, WKNY AM1490, FM1079, Kingston, NY.Episode six of I'm Feeling Queer Today was produced by Frankie Gunn, Zorian Edwards, and Ari, and features Sam and Kiwi. Special thanks to executive producers and mentors, Julie Novak and Celeste Lecesne, as well as Future Perfect Project team members Ryan Amador, Jon Wan, and Aliya Jamil. Mixing & mastering for I'm Feeling Queer Today by Julie Novak, with assistance from Emma Jayne Seslowsky.Visit the show website at thefutureperfectproject.org/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ep. 51 ⁠DuEwa⁠ interviewed author ⁠Courtney Thorsson⁠ about her new book, The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (2024). Visit Courtney's website at ⁠www.CourtneyThorsson.com.⁠ Follow Nerdacity on IG @nerdacitypodcast and DuEwa IG @drduewawrites. www.duewaworld.com Tweet and follow on X @nerdacitypod1. Fan/follow Nerdacity on Facebook. Donate to Paypal.me/duewaworld  Bio ⁠Courtney Thorsson⁠ is an associate professor at the University of Oregon, where she teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature. Her first book ⁠Women's Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels⁠ argues that Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison reclaim and revise cultural nationalism in their novels of the 1980s and 90s. Her writing has appeared in publications including Callaloo; African American Review; MELUS; Gastronomica; Contemporary Literature; Legacy; and Public Books. Her new book, ⁠The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture⁠ tells the story of how a remarkable community of Black women writers and intellectuals transformed political, literary, and academic cultures. She is the recipient of a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the research and writing of The Sisterhood.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/duewafrazier/support

captioned live! we took one hour to read four paragraphs together. excerpt from: Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara, edited by Thabiti Lewis. I don't usually save my lives because (1) that requires editing and I am already drowning in administrative work and (2) I enjoy existing in temporal space for only a moment in time, rather than being replayable and rewatchable and forwardable all the time. it's a weird thing to watch happen to your personhood. but this one i found to be really lovely and helpful, so here it is. i hope you enjoyyy.correct video transcript available at ismatu.substack.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ismatu.substack.com/subscribe

Toni Cade Bambara adamantly noted that "as a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible”. This panel discussion takes up this invitation to name what it means to make revolution irresistible and possible within the Black community. Our panelists, TaVia Wooley, Dr. Natalie Graham, Marc Philpart, and Nicole D. Vick are leaders, parents and caregivers, dreamers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and community members. They will speak to the importance of creating community and learning spaces, how to develop meaningful networks, and what nourishes their vision of Black liberation and joy.

"Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?Just so's you're sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you're well.” - Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters Welcome to black. loved. free., a podcast dedicated to Black spirituality, healing, and Black liberation! Join the host Brendane biweekly as we affirm ourselves and our ancestral traditions. Together we will explore what it means to be black, loved, and free through Black feminist theory and collective wisdom. Follow us on Instagram @blacklovedandfree. Title theme: Mayyadda, On My Way. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/black-loved-free-podcast/message

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Let's talk about the titular story "Gorilla, my Love" from the same-titled collection by Toni Cade Bambara. A story that explores identity, authority, and names. Toni Cade Bambara Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQOsqNIwTk0&list=PLHg_kbfrA7YAed7csjwv2u7xc_fOTCnW5 ✨Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Join our Patreon to pick our reads.

This episode takes its name from the first pages of Toni Cade Bambara's novel The Salt Eaters, where healer Minnie Ransom tells activist Velma Henry, “wholeness is no trifling matter.” We join mama, yoga instructor, lover, and Kindergarten teacher Brittney Elyse to talk about what it means to find pleasure in what Bambara calls “the weight of wellness,” when she leaves and then returns as her full(er) self to teaching. Brittney shares her migration story from North Carolina to Massachusetts and back, reflecting on how she began to unlearn unpleasure, uncare, and working to capacity (which Audre Lorde tells us are not the ways of the erotic). We invite you to share your reflections. What is bringing you pleasure and rest this month? Send your thoughts to us at us@dancingondesks.org, leave an audio message, or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks. Transcript (Finalized Monday, Dec. 4, 2023) The clips from the protest at the end of this episode come from an October 28, 2023 protest in London, UK, calling for a ceasefire in Palestine in solidarity with freedom and protection for Palestinians. BRITTNEY'S SUNDAY SWEETNESS Instagram: @brittneyelyseyoga  INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE bell hooks, All About Love Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters Tricia Hersey, Rest is Resistance A Word on Words with John Seigenthaler, featuring bell hooks, who discusses her newest book All About Love, PBS, 1999 MUSIC Dancing on Desks theme song composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes  “Cruise” and “Memories” Prod by Yogic Beats “In Dreamland” Prod by Chill Peach “Biscuit” Prod. by Lukrembo “Wine” Prod. by Lukrembo “Lighta” Prod. by rémdolla “Homme” Prod. by rémdolla --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dancingondesks/message

We read Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara. This short story collection was first published in 1972 and features 15 stories, and the incredible voices of folks in New York City and sometimes in the rural south. Content Warnings (for the book, less so for the episode): sexual assault, child abuse, murder Our next reads will be Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug and Babel-17 buy Samuel R. Delaney. You can find them at your local bookstore or library and read along with us. If you want to read along with The Bookstore Challenge 2023, you can find Instagram graphics for your story or grid in this Google Drive folder. You can also join us on The StoryGraph to see what others are reading for each month and get ideas for your TBR: The Bookstore Challenge 2023. Get two audiobook credits for the price of one at Libro.fm when you sign up using the code BOOKSTOREPOD. Website | Patreon

In our last conversation, (Episode 26) we shared Alice Lovelace's tumultuous history as a solo teaching artist and performer working with young writers all across the rural south. What follows is Alice's next chapter. In it she talks about building an extraordinary multi-disciplinary, cross-sector cultural institution that rises up from the funky detritus of the pandemic as a new beachhead of creative change in a small Georgia Community. BIOAlice Lovelace is a cultural worker, performance artist, teacher, poet, organizer, author, playwright, and arts administer. Since 1976 Atlanta has been her home of choice; a fertile ground for artistic growth and activism, and in 1978, she discovered the Neighborhood Arts Center and met Ebon Dooley (Leo Hale) and Toni Cade Bambara. Together, they organized poetry readings and classes while conducting meetings for the Southern Collective of African American Writers (SCAAW). In 1981, Ebon and Alice founded the nonprofit: Southeast Community Cultural Center located at the former Grant Park Elementary School and in 1984 opened the former school as The Arts Exchange – a studio space for artists, a theater, recording studio, two galleries, a dance studio, and home to the Atlanta Writers Resource Center. Between 1998 and 2000 Alice became executive director of Alternate ROOTS, an artists-led southern regional organization; and along with Dr. Lisa Delpit and actress Jane Fonda, she founded and stepped into the role of executive director of the Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning (APAL). Currently serving as the president of the board of ArtsXchange, Alice continues to serve the public need through programs implemented at the nonprofit's newly renovate facility in East Point, GA.

Our first book for September's prompt to Read a Book with an Animal in the Title is The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li. We loved reading about this obsessive, codependent relationships between two girls in post-war France.  Content warnings: mentions of violence and sexual assault (not graphically described) Our next book discussion will be on Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara. Get it from your local library or bookstore and read along with us! If you want to read along with The Bookstore Challenge 2023, you can find Instagram graphics for your story or grid in this Google Drive folder. You can also join us on The StoryGraph to see what others are reading for each month and get ideas for your TBR: The Bookstore Challenge 2023. Get two audiobook credits for the price of one at Libro.fm when you sign up using the code BOOKSTOREPOD. Website | Patreon

Pleasure Muse: Toni Cade Bambara  Tantalizing Trivia:  Born Miltona Mirkin Cade, this author, activist, and professor, changed her name at the age of 6, to Toni. She then added Bambara to honor the West African ethnic group, Bambara.  Her anthology, “Black Woman”, was the first feminist collection to focus on Black women. It included works from her friends Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde and Alice Walker.  After the success of her two fiction books, Gorilla My Love and The Salt Eaters, she became a filmmaker, covering topics like the Philadelphia MOVE Bombing and the disappearance of over 40 children in Atlanta.  She believed strongly in clairvoyance, dream analysis, telepathy, and ancestral healing, and wrote about those themes in most of her work.  She died at 56 from colon cancer. Toni Morrison posthumously edited and published her last book, Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions.  Mirror Work: Do a two minute free write, completing the sentence, “The truth is, I…” There's not right or wrong. Just let your truth, about whatever comes from your spirit, flow onto the paper. Now look at yourself in the mirror as you read it out loud. “The Truth is I…” Repeat three times. Look at yourself while you speak and honor the courage that it takes to face our truths head on.  Speak Your Truth: A Playlist  Self-Care Shopping List: Pick up The Salt Eaters for yourself and Gorilla My Love for your pre-teen or teen to read this Summer.  “The dream is real my friend, it's the failure to realize it that's the unreality.” - Toni Cade Bambara  Didn't catch the live recording of today's episode? We don't want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below. Opening ⁠Song⁠ Closing ⁠Song

1970s black feminists like Toni Cade Bambara, the Combahee River Collective, and Awa Thiam critique white feminist and black nationalist failures to recognize the unique struggle of the black woman.

Welcome to Dreaming in Color, a show hosted by Darren Isom, a partner with The Bridgespan Group, that provides a space for social change leaders of color to reflect on how their life experiences, personal and professional, have prepared them to lead and drive the impact we all seek. Takema Robinson is a mother, entrepreneur, social justice strategist, and avid advocate for Black women and radical self-care. With more than two decades of experience in strategic philanthropy, policy, advocacy, and fundraising, she is the CEO and co-founder of Converge, a social justice consulting firm whose purpose is to accelerate the creation of a radically just new world where communities of color thrive. In addition, after the near-death experience of delivering a son at just 24 weeks, she also helped to form the National Birth Equity Collaborative, which works to decrease birth inequity for Black women across the US by raising awareness of Black infant prematurity and mortality and the growing Black maternal mortality crisis. Join this conversation as Takema explores her family's distinguished legacy and talks about how that, coupled with her experiences at Howard and The Hill, has shaped her and the work she does through Converge. Listen as she discusses leadership, radical-self care as an act of revolution, and dreams of what a radically just new world looks like. Jump straight into: (0:28) Introducing Takema Robinson, CEO and Founder of Converge. (1:40) Takema offers up words from Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters. (3:36) Takema and Darren reminisce about their time together at Howard and how her experiences there paved the way to building Converge. (5:09) Takema dives into her family's legacy of activism and how the footsteps they've left behind have guided her activism. (10:18) Radical self-care as a revolutionary act. (13:01) How taking a sabbatical and moving out of the states were necessary in Takema's self-care journey. (19:14) Lessons in leadership. (21:44) Motherhood, legacy, and maintaining optimism for the future. (25:14) Dreaming of a radically just new world. Episode ResourcesConnect with Takema through LinkedInExplore Takema's work and background though her websiteLearn more about Takema's work with Converge for ChangeCheck out Takema's article for Inside Philanthropy on the Greater New Orleans Funders Network “Radically Reimaging Philanthropy Through a Restorative Justice Lens”Read Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters

Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic disciplinarity and how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom. Bookended by meditations with June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, Of Black Study (Pluto Press, 2023) focuses on how W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers, and Cedric Robinson contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge. Of Black Study is especially geared toward understanding the contemporary evolution of Black Studies in the neoliberal university and allows us to consider the stakes of intellectual freedom and the path toward a new world. Omari Averette-Phillips is a graduate student in the department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic disciplinarity and how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom. Bookended by meditations with June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, Of Black Study (Pluto Press, 2023) focuses on how W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers, and Cedric Robinson contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge. Of Black Study is especially geared toward understanding the contemporary evolution of Black Studies in the neoliberal university and allows us to consider the stakes of intellectual freedom and the path toward a new world. Omari Averette-Phillips is a graduate student in the department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic disciplinarity and how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom. Bookended by meditations with June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, Of Black Study (Pluto Press, 2023) focuses on how W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers, and Cedric Robinson contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge. Of Black Study is especially geared toward understanding the contemporary evolution of Black Studies in the neoliberal university and allows us to consider the stakes of intellectual freedom and the path toward a new world. Omari Averette-Phillips is a graduate student in the department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic disciplinarity and how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom. Bookended by meditations with June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, Of Black Study (Pluto Press, 2023) focuses on how W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers, and Cedric Robinson contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge. Of Black Study is especially geared toward understanding the contemporary evolution of Black Studies in the neoliberal university and allows us to consider the stakes of intellectual freedom and the path toward a new world. Omari Averette-Phillips is a graduate student in the department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic disciplinarity and how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom. Bookended by meditations with June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, Of Black Study (Pluto Press, 2023) focuses on how W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers, and Cedric Robinson contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge. Of Black Study is especially geared toward understanding the contemporary evolution of Black Studies in the neoliberal university and allows us to consider the stakes of intellectual freedom and the path toward a new world. Omari Averette-Phillips is a graduate student in the department of History at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Imani Perry and Kaitlyn Greenidge for a discussion of Claudia Tate and Black Women Writers At Work. Long out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century. Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, and Sherley Anne Williams, the book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after. For this launch Imani Perry will be in conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge. Get Black Women Writers at Work from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1926-black-women-writers-at-work Speakers: Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she also teaches in the Programs in Law and Public Affairs, and in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is a native of Birmingham, Alabama, and spent much of her youth in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Chicago. She is the author of several books, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. She lives outside Philadelphia with her two sons, Freeman Diallo Perry Rabb and Issa Garner Rabb. Kaitlyn Greenidge's debut novel is We Love You, Charlie Freeman (Algonquin Books), one of the New York Times Critics' Top 10 Books of 2016. Her writing has appeared in the Vogue, Glamour, the Wall Street Journal, Elle, Buzzfeed, Transition Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, American Short Fiction and other places. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently Features Director at Harper's Bazaar. Her second novel, Libertie, is published by Algonquin Books and out now. Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/sYdedGXRV_g Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Episode 177 Notes and Links to Laura Warrell's Work       On Episode 177 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Laura Warrell, and the two discuss, among other things, her early love of writing and acting, important works and writers who steered her into her own career, how teaching literature at Berklee College of Music informed her writing and creative outlook, and issues in Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm around love, connection, traumas, promiscuity, character development, real-life inspirations, and structural and character-based decisions.       Laura Warrell is a contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Tin House Summer Workshop, and is a graduate of the creative writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in HuffPost, The Rumpus, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm was published in September 2022, and has been rightly lauded since.   Buy Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm   Laura Warrell's Website   Los Angeles Times Portrait of Laura's Journey in Writing Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm   At about 1:40, Laura talks about the “flurry of activity” that followed her book's publication, and Pete asks her to speak about “moving on” to her next project and how she sees her first book now and how she remembers her characters are for her   At about 5:00, Laura gives background on her very early writing (“I came to writing before I came to reading”) and reading    At about 8:20, Laura recalls her early desire (and continuing until college) desire to become an actress/theater major   At about 11:00, Laura and Pete muse on the fading idea of the writer as celebrity   At about 12:50, Laura discusses how acting became secondary to writing in her pivotal college days, as well as writers like Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, among others, who inspired her   At about 16:05, Pete asks about how Laura's time as an instructor at Berklee College of Music informed the book and its coverage of art, artists, and creativity   At about 22:20, The two discuss a pivotal and memorable scene where the protagonist Circus receives a wakeup call and    At about 24:30, Laura gives background on the title and its genesis, and she responds Pete's questions about why Laura used jazz as a topic for the book    At about 28:15, Laura speaks to ideas of centering the multiple women in Circus' orbit    At about 32:10, Laura points to a particular book she was reading about a “playboy” that made her sure to have the women's perspective front and center for those in relationships with Circus   At about 34:40, Laura lays our characteristics of Circus' daughter, Koko, and how fleshing her out led to more narration from Circus   At about 36:30, Maggie is described, and the book's opening scene is described and how it leads to a pivotal choice for Circus   At about 37:20, Laura talks about basing Maggie on Cindy Blackman, and Pete and Laura discuss a scene where Maggie delineates differences for her between Tip and Circus   At about 41:20, Pete references the opening scene for Koko, and Koko's “father issues,” and Laura talks about Koko as a caretaker for her mother, Pia   At about 45:05, Pia is described, especially with regard to her maternal outlook   At about 46:05, A key scene involving Odessa (Pete is very complimentary of the craft) is discussed, and Laura talks about readers' feedback involving Odessa    At about 48:35, Pete and Laura discuss key scenes involving Koko, especially in her unease in growing up   At about 50:20, The theme of aging is discussed, especially in terms of creative output and the world's expectations    At about 51:25, Pete marks Raquel as in important character, a barometer, and Laura describes the role of Raquel   At about 55:10, The theme of father-daughter relationships and traumas and love is referenced and examples given, with Laura reflecting on the “broken mechanism” that steers Circus' motivations and actions   At about 1:00:10, Pete and Laura cite a rough scene that calls to mind misogyny in a memorable way   At about 1:01:50, Pia is highlighted for ideas of trauma and ways to cope, and Laura picks up on a thread to reinforce why she wanted to write the book as she did   At about 1:05:40, Treading lightly-not wanting to give plot spoilers, Pete outlines some of the book's twists   At about 1:06:50, Laura highlights ideas from the book on expectations for success, dreams, family life, and the immediacy of these things    At about 1:09:00, Laura gives social media info, and highlights Octavia's Bookshelf and Skylight Books as two of many great places to buy her book   At about 1:10:05, Laura talks about an exciting new book project   At about 1:11:50, Laura gives suggestions on possible actors who might play Circus if the book were ever put on the big/small screen    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.   Please tune in for Episode 178 with Stephen Buoro. Stephen was born in Nigeria in 1993 and at The University of East Anglia in the UK, he was the 2018 recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. He has a first-class degree in Mathematics and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative-Critical Writing at UEA on a fully funded studentship. His book, Andy Africa and The Five Sorrowful Mysteries, is bound to be a sensation. Pete's interview with him regarding the book is forthcoming in Chicago Review of Books.    The episode will air on April 18, the Pub Day for the book!

“Are you sure, sweetheart you want to be well? …Cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you're well.” Toni Cade Bambara opens her novel The Salt Eaters with these lines - questioning both the protagonist AND the reader to decide if they want to take on the weight of wellness. Reading this book is unlike any other reading experience we've had. It feels like trudging through mud, and in this episode Akili assures us that that means that The Salt Eaters is working!?!? Akili shows us, and all our listeners, what it means to be a smart Black man, as he makes one of the hardest books ever look easy, and hits on the many interesting points listed below: 1:35 The Story Behind Akili's names 6:41 Listening to only jazz for a year 9:25 Akili's reading journey 12:04 What it means to be a smart Black man 15:44 “When you want something, you have to go after it” 19:35 Trudging through mud with the Salt Eaters 20:46 Taking the Wakanda Leaf to the Ancestral plane 24:51 Who is the main character? What's going on? 26:33 How the Salt Eaters deepened Akili's understanding of wellness 31:52 How Akili would teach The Salt Eaters 37:30 Toni Cade Bambara's legacy 40:02 The Character of the South in the book 45:43 Akili's time as a rapper 48:30 30 minute freestyles 53:17 It's not hard to be smart for 60 minutes --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realballersread/support

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues Jack O'Brien, theatre director and author of Jack in the Box, or How to Goddamn Direct, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Jack O'Brien has won three Tony Awards and has been nominated seven times. The former artistic director of The Old Globe in San Diego, from 1981 to 2007, he's one of the premier directors working in America today. Among his Broadway shows are The Full Monty, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can and The Coast of Utopia. He directed the much lauded 2018 revival of Carousel on Broadway. Most recently, in 2021, he directed Hairspray in London. This book, his second after a memoir, Jack Be Nimble, discusses some of the lessons he has learned as a director, but quickly changes into reminiscences about such performers as Marsha Mason, Jerry Lewis and John Goodman, playwright Tom Stoppard, and fellow director Mike Nichols. The interview focuses on his early career, the future of theatre after the pandemic, directing Shakespeare, and other issues. Complete 57-minute interview. Jack O'Brien Wikipedia page   Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. All times Pacific Standard Time. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival  Highlights from this year's Festival, May 7-8, 2022 and upcoming calendar. Book Passage.  Monthly Calendar. Mix of on-line and in-store events. Books Inc.  Mix of on-line and in-store events. The Booksmith.   Monthly Calendar. On-line events only. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months. Kepler's Books  On-line Refresh the Page program listings. Live Theater Companies Actor's Reading Collective (ARC).  See website for past streams. Alter Theatre. Pueblo Revolt by Dillon Chitto, February 2-12, ARC (Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley); February 15-26, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael. American Conservatory Theatre  The Headlandsl February 9 – March 5 by Christopher Chen, Toni Rembe Theater. Aurora Theatre Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau, Opens January 27, 2023, streaming February 21-26. Awesome Theatre Company. Check website for upcoming live shows and streaming. Berkeley Rep Clydes, by Lynn Nottage, January 20 – February 28, Peets Theatre. Boxcar Theatre. See website for events. Brava Theatre Center: See website for events. BroadwaySF: Bluey's Big Play, January 21 – 22, Golden Gate; Dear Evan Hanson, January 24 – February 19, Orpheum; Mean Girls, January 31 – February 26, Golden Gate. Bill Maher, live on stage, March 12, 2023. Broadway San Jose: Bluey's Big Play by Joe Brumm, February 3 -5, 2023. California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes). 2023 Season to be announced. Center Rep: Red Bike, by Carldad Svich, directed by Jeffrey Lo. February  4 – 25, 2023. Central Works Mondragola by Gary Graves, March 18 – April 16, 2023. Cinnabar Theatre. Daddy Long Legs,  January 6 – 22, 2023. The Broadway Bash fund-raiser, February 25, Doubletree Rohnert Park. Contra Costa Civic Theatre To Master the Art by William Brown and Doug Frew, April 21 – May 21, 2023. Curran Theater: Into The Woods, direct from Broadway, June 20-25, 2023. Custom Made Theatre. Tiny Fires by Aimee Suzara, February 3 – 36, 2023. 42nd Street Moon. Anything Goes, February 23 – March 12, Gateway Theatre. Golden Thread  See website for upcoming productions. Landmark Musical Theater. See website for upcoming shows. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Next show to be announced. Magic Theatre. The Travelers by Luis Alfaro, February 15 – March 5, 2023. See website for other theatre events at the Magic. Marin Theatre Company Justice: A New Musical by Lauren Gunderson, February 16 – March 12, 2023. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Upcoming Events Page. New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) Getting There, Jan. 20 – Feb. 26. Tick, Tick … Boom March 3 – April 1, 2023. Oakland Theater Project.  Exodus to Eden by Michael Socrates Moran, in theater, February 3-26, 2023. Pear Theater. In Repertory, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a new physical adaptation, Dontrell Who Kissed The Sea by Nathan Alan Davis, February 3-26. 2023. PianoFight. Calendar of shows. Note: PianoFight in San Francisco and Oakland permanently closes on March 18, 2023. PlayGround. See website for upcoming shows. Presidio Theatre. See website for upcoming productions Ray of Light: See website for upcoming productions. San Francisco Playhouse.  Cashed Out by Claude Jackson, Jr., January 28 to February 25, 2023. SFBATCO See website for upcoming streaming and in- theater shows. San Jose Stage Company: Satchmo at the Waldorf by Terry Teachout, February 1 – 2, 2023. Shotgun Players. Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy. Extended to February 25, 2023. South Bay Musical Theatre: The Spitfire Grill, January 28-February 18, 2023. The Breath Project. Streaming archive. The Marsh: Calendar listings for Berkeley, San Francisco and Marshstream. Theatre Rhino  A Guide for the Homesick by Ken Urban, February 23 – March 19. Streaming: Essential Services Project, conceived and performed by John Fisher, all weekly performances now available on demand. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. In Every Generation, by Ali Viterbi, January 18 – February 12, Mountain View Center for the Arts. Word for Word. Staged Reading: Two Stories by Toni Cade Bambara, January 23, 7 pm, Z Below. See schedule for additional live and streaming works. Misc. Listings: BAM/PFA: On View calendar for BAM/PFA. Berkeley Symphony: See website for listings. Chamber Music San Francisco: Calendar, 2023 Season, starting February. Dance Mission Theatre. On stage events calendar. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Calendar listings and upcoming shows. San Francisco Opera. Calendar listings. San Francisco Symphony. Calendar listings. Playbill List of Streaming Theatre: Updated weekly, this is probably the best list you'll find of national and international streaming plays and musicals. Each week has its own webpage, so scroll down. National Theatrical Streaming: Upcoming plays from around the country. Filmed Live Musicals: Searchable database of all filmed live musicals, podcast, blog. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write Richard@kpfa.org             The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 19, 2023: Jack O'Brien appeared first on KPFA.

This is the second half of our conversation with Joshua Myers on his latest book Of Black Study. In part one we covered Myers' goals for the project and the selection of thinkers he includes. We also reviewed in some detail his chapters on W.E.B. Du Bois and Sylvia Wynter, as well as his inclusion of June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara. In this part of the discussion we focus on the interventions of Jacob Carruthers and Cedric Robinson, who Myers often places in dialogue with one another. We talk about Carruthers work toward an African historiography, and around language and African Deep Thought, going into the terms mdw ntr and whm msw and talking a bit about their meaning and importance and conceptual relevance to the Black Radical Tradition and revolutionary possibility.  Because we have two other discussions with Myers on Cedric Robinson, both of which go more in-depth on Black Marxism and Robinson's interventions there, we focused this time on Myers work around Terms of Order and An Anthropology of Marxism. Myers closes with a reflection on the inability of the western university to accommodate radical thought in general, and Black radical thought in particular, except as a means to discipline and control it, leaving open questions of where Black Study must go from here.  We again want to thank Pluto Press for donating copies for our reading group of incarcerated folks which we support along with Massive Bookshop and Prisons Kill. This book comes out Friday on Pluto Press, so make sure to pre-order your copy or pick it up from your favorite radical bookstore.  Shout-out to all the folks who are patrons of our show and support the work we do bringing you conversations like this. You can join them and become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month or $10.80 per year at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism  The discussion with Harold Cruse referenced in the episode. Our first interview with Joshua Myers (on Cedric Robinson) Our second interview with Joshua Myers (on his biography of Cedric Robinson) Our interviews with authors and editors of the Black Critique series     

This is part one of a two part conversation with Joshua Myers on his latest book Of Black Study.  In Of Black Study Joshua Myers examines the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers and Cedric Robinson as well as June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, and what each contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge.  In this part of our two conversation on this book, Professor Myers talks about the selection of the six thinkers he centers the book around, and the type of project he is engaged in with the text. We also spend about an hour talking about two of the books chapters, the one centered around the interventions of W.E.B. Du Bois and Sylvia Wynter, as well as looking at each of their relationships to Marxist thought and analytical approaches, and their relationships to science, the humanities and academic disciplinary traditions. As well as what each of them finds among the Black masses and how what they finds there influences their work. Of Black Study is a new release from the Black Critique series on Pluto Press. This is our third conversation with Joshua Myers, both of our previous two have been discussions centered around Cedric Robinson. We have also done a number of discussions with authors and editors of the Black Critique series over the years, including discussions with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Bedour Alagraa, David Austin, and Michael Sawyer (links below). We strongly recommend this book, for anyone interested in Black Study and/or the critical interventions of the thinkers the book focuses on. It is an indispensable resource. it officially comes out later this week, but you can pre-order your copy now through Pluto Press or through our comrades over at Massive Bookshop. If you pre-order from Massive, 20% of the proceeds go to fund the abolitionist organization Project NIA. We've received word that Pluto Press will also be donating copies of this book to all the participants in the incarcerated study group that we support in partnership with Massive Bookshop and Prisons Kill. So we want to send a big shout-out to Pluto Press and Joshua Myers for that as well.  Part two - which focuses primarily on Myers' chapters on Jacob Carruthers and Cedric Robinson - will come out in the next couple of days.  As always if you like what we do, and want to support our ability to do it, you can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism. We have a goal of adding 31 patrons this month and currently we're at 13, so we're still working towards that goal.  Our first interview with Joshua Myers (on Cedric Robinson) Our second interview with Joshua Myers (on his biography of Cedric Robinson) Greg Thomas's interview of Sylvia Wynter from Proud Flesh  From Cooperation to Black Operation (Transversal Texts conversation with Harney & Moten)  Bedour Alagraa's Interview with Sylvia Wynter “What Will Be The Cure?”  Our interviews with authors and editors of the Black Critique series  Beyond Prisons interviews with Dr. Anthony Monteiro (first interview, second interview)    

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Suzy McKee Charnas, in the 1980s. Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded over Halloween Weekend, 1981 at the World Fantasy Convention in the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley. Suzy McKee Charnas, who died on January 2nd, 2023 at the age of 83, was a novelist and short story writer focusing on fantasy and science fiction. Over a career that began in 1974 with her first novel, Walk to the End of the World, she wrote eleven novels and several short stories, winning both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best short stories. She is best known for her tetralogy of novels, The Holdfast Chronicles, beginning with the aforementioned Walk to the End of the World and concluding with The Conquerer's Child in 1999. In 1981, she had just written three novels, focusing on feminist issues in a field that was still dominated by men. Her second novel, Motherlines, which featured no male characters at all, was decades ahead of its time. A lot has changed since 1981, and the interview also serves as a time capsule in terms of both questions and answers, and in regard to feminist writing, publishing and genre writing. She continued to work steadily after 1981, but she wrote no more novels after 1999, though short stories continued to be published. None of her works were adapted for television or film, though she did adapt The Vampire Tapestry for the stage in 2001. The interview aired once shortly after the recording, and was digitized, remastered and edited on January 4, 2023. Complete 29-minute interview.   Artwaves Richard Wolinsky and Frank Galati, 2019. Frank Galati (1943-2023), who died on January 2, 2023 at the age of 79, was a giant in American theatre. A long-time member of the legendary Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Frank Galati was winner of Tony Awards for the adaptation and direction of The Grapes of Wrath in 1990, was nominated for an Oscar for co-adapting The Accidental Tourist for the screen, and was the director of Ragtime and The Pirate Queen on Broadway. Frank Galati is also known for adapting several other works for stage and screen. Frank Galati was in the San Francisco Bay Area to direct a production of “Rhinoceros” by Eugene Ionesco at ACT's Geary Theatre, and it was in ACT's offices that this interview took place on May 22, 2019. “Rhinoceros” is considered to be one of the greatest works of political theatre of the absurd. Originally produced in the late 1950s, the play hearkens back to the origins of fascism and how propaganda infects the minds of citizens. At the end of the interview, Frank Galati discusses his upcoming project, a musical version of James Agee's “A Death in the Family,” with music and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, A Man of No Importance). The show, titled “Knoxville” made its world premiere at the Asolo Repertory Company in Sarasota Florida in April 2022, and an original cast album was released digitally in October and on disc in November, 2022. First posted as a Bay Area Theater podcast on June 2, 2019. Photos: Richard Wolinsky Complete 42-minute interview.   Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. All times Pacific Standard Time. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival  Highlights from this year's Festival, May 7-8, 2022 and upcoming calendar. Book Passage.  Monthly Calendar. Mix of on-line and in-store events. Books Inc.  Mix of on-line and in-store events. The Booksmith.   Monthly Calendar. On-line events only. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months. Kepler's Books  On-line Refresh the Page program listings. Live Theater Companies Actor's Reading Collective (ARC).  See website for past streams. Alter Theatre. Upcoming: Snag by Tara Moses, Pueblo Revolt by Dillon Chitto American Conservatory Theatre  The Headlandsl February 9 – March 5 by Christopher Chen, Toni Rembe Theater. Aurora Theatre Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau, Opens January 27, 2023, streaming February 21-26. Awesome Theatre Company. Check website for upcoming live shows and streaming. Berkeley Rep Clydes, by Lynn Nottage, January 20 – February 28, Peets Theatre. Boxcar Theatre. See website for events. Brava Theatre Center: See website for events. BroadwaySF: The Simon & Garfunkel Story, January 18, Golden Gate; Bluey's Big Play, January 21 – 22, Golden Gate; Dear Evan Hanson, January 24 – February 19, Orpheum; Mean Girls, January 31 – February 26, Golden Gate. Bill Maher, live on stage, March 12, 2023. Broadway San Jose: Annie, January 10-15, 2023. California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes). 2023 Season to be announced. Center Rep: Red Bike, by Carldad Svich, directed by Jeffrey Lo. February  4 – 25, 2023. Central Works Mondragola by Gary Graves, March 18 – April 16, 2023. Cinnabar Theatre. Daddy Long Legs,  January 6 – 22, 2023. Contra Costa Civic Theatre To Master the Art by William Brown and Doug Frew, April 21 – May 21, 2023. Curran Theater: Into The Woods, direct from Broadway, June 20-25, 2023. Custom Made Theatre. Tiny Fires by Aimee Suzara, February 3 – 36, 2023. 42nd Street Moon. Anything Goes, February 23 – March 12, Gateway Theatre. Golden Thread  See website for upcoming productions. Landmark Musical Theater. See website for upcoming shows. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Next show to be announced. Magic Theatre. The Travelers by Luis Alfaro, February 15 – March 5, 2023. See website for other theatre events at the Magic. Marin Theatre Company Justice: A New Musical by Lauren Gunderson, February 16 – March 12, 2023. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Upcoming Events Page. New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) Getting There, Jan. 20 – Feb. 26. Tick, Tick … Boom March 3 – April 1, 2023. Oakland Theater Project.  Exodus to Eden by Michael Socrates Moran, in theater, February 3-26, 2023. Pear Theater. In Repertory, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a new physical adaptation, Dontrell Who Kissed The Sea by Nathan Alan Davis, February 3-26. 2023. PianoFight. Calendar of shows. PlayGround. See website for upcoming shows. Presidio Theatre. See website for upcoming productions Ray of Light: See website for upcoming productions. San Francisco Playhouse.  As You Like It, a musical adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare, November 17, 2022 – January 14, 2023. Cashed Out by Claude Jackson, Jr., January 28 0 February 25. SFBATCO See website for upcoming streaming and in- theater shows. San Jose Stage Company: Strange Courtesies by L. Peter Callender February 1 – 26, 2023. Shotgun Players. Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy. Extended to February 25, 2023. South Bay Musical Theatre: The Spitfire Grill, January 28-February 18, 2023. The Breath Project. Streaming archive. The Marsh: Calendar listings for Berkeley, San Francisco and Marshstream. Theatre Rhino  Streaming: Essential Services Project, conceived and performed by John Fisher, all weekly performances now available on demand. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. In Every Generation, by Ali Viterbi, January 18 – February 12, Mountain View Center for the Arts. Word for Word. Staged Reading: Two Stories by Toni Cade Bambara, January 23, 7 pm, Z Below. See schedule for additional live and streaming works. Misc. Listings: BAM/PFA: On View calendar for BAM/PFA. Berkeley Symphony: See website for listings. Chamber Music San Francisco: Calendar, 2023 Season, starting February. Dance Mission Theatre. On stage events calendar. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Calendar listings and upcoming shows. San Francisco Opera. Calendar listings. San Francisco Symphony. Calendar listings. Playbill List of Streaming Theatre: Updated weekly, this is probably the best list you'll find of national and international streaming plays and musicals. Each week has its own webpage, so scroll down. National Theatrical Streaming: Upcoming plays from around the country. Filmed Live Musicals: Searchable database of all filmed live musicals, podcast, blog. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write Richard@kpfa.org             The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 12, 2023: Suzy McKee Charnas – Frank Galati appeared first on KPFA.

If you're interested in learning about the author and educator who penned “The Salt Eaters” as well as two critically acclaimed volumes of short stories, then my Toni Cade Bambara Black History Facts profile is for you.   Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/toni-cade-bambara

Joseph Osmundson joins Eric Newman to discuss VIROLOGY, his new collection of essays published in June by Norton. Joe is a professor of microbiology at NYU, critic, essayist, and co-host of the Food4Thot podcast. Part memoir, part COVID diary, part essayistic journey into questions of risk, identity, and modern culture, Virology loosely explores what queer thought and experience can help us see and understand about viruses, and what a close look at viruses can help us understand about ourselves and our relation to others and the world. Two major pandemics saturate the book—the legacy of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, and the COVID19 pandemic of the past several years. In looking at how queerness, risk, and social bonds intersect with moments of peak medical crisis, Joe searches out how we have been challenged and changed by pandemics and what new worlds we can build out of that experience. Also, Ruth Wilson Gilmore returns to recommend six books, which, taken together, renew her faith in "human internationalism from below." The titles and authors are: Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili, Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko, Those Bones are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara, Return of a Native by Vron Ware, The Common Wind by Julius S. Scott, and the collection As If She Were Free edited by Erica L Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L Snyder.

Joseph Osmundson joins Eric Newman to discuss VIROLOGY, his new collection of essays published in June by Norton. Joe is a professor of microbiology at NYU, critic, essayist, and co-host of the Food4Thot podcast. Part memoir, part COVID diary, part essayistic journey into questions of risk, identity, and modern culture, Virology loosely explores what queer thought and experience can help us see and understand about viruses, and what a close look at viruses can help us understand about ourselves and our relation to others and the world. Two major pandemics saturate the book—the legacy of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, and the COVID19 pandemic of the past several years. In looking at how queerness, risk, and social bonds intersect with moments of peak medical crisis, Joe searches out how we have been challenged and changed by pandemics and what new worlds we can build out of that experience. Also, Ruth Wilson Gilmore returns to recommend six books, which, taken together, renew her faith in "human internationalism from below." The titles and authors are: Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili, Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko, Those Bones are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara, Return of a Native by Vron Ware, The Common Wind by Julius S. Scott, and the collection As If She Were Free edited by Erica L Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L Snyder.

Thabiti Lewis is from St. Louis Missouri, where he grew up in West and North St. Louis. A graduate of the University of Rochester, he received degrees in both English and History (with honors), and the Masters in the Art of Teaching (English) from the University of Rochester's School of Education. He obtained a doctorate in English from Saint Louis University with a special focus on American literature and culture between the 1950s-1990s and Black Feminist writer Toni Cade Bambara. While completing his doctorate he earned a fellowship at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

"Toni Cade Bambara begins her classic, African American novel, The Salt Eaters, with this compelling question: “Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?” At first thought, the question seems unnecessary. What ailing person doesn't want to be well? What hurting person doesn't want wellness? Yet every day we cross paths with those who cling to their pain and disability even in the midst of opportunities to be healed." In Episode 13, Dr. Drea acknowledges the passing of self-appointed relationship expert Kevin Samuels and its emotionally charged, chaotic impact on Black male-female interactions on social media. She asks her listeners to consider if their current behaviors reflect the desire to be mentally and emotionally well and encourages us to make small steps in the direction of healing. Music: Tu Foto by Bad Duck (Snapmuse) Definition: Psychosomatic illness - a physical illness caused or aggravated by a mental factor such as internal conflict or stress. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/drdrea/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drdrea/support

On this episode of Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of the book, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature. Dr. Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is also the author of five books, the most recent being one that intermixes critical literary analysis with personal narrative. Episode Notes _________________________On this episode of Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of the book, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature. Dr. Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is also the author of five books, the most recent being one that intermixes critical literary analysis with personal narrative. During the conversation, Dr. Griffin opens up about how she's been writing versions of Read Until You Understand since she was a child. She also discusses how she's worked to distinguish her literary voice outside of the academy, centering Black literature in the quest for Black liberation, and her chance encounters in Philadelphia with Patti LaBelle and Toni Cade Bambara. Support the show (https://paypal.me/nikeshaelise)

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Today we are heading to the rural south with "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" by Toni Cade Bambara. With themes on privacy, protection, and pride, Bambara weaves a great story! Toni Cade Bambara playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQOsqNIwTk0&list=PLHg_kbfrA7YAed7csjwv2u7xc_fOTCnW5 ✨Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Join our Patreon to pick our reads.

Elizabeth and Larissa consider what alternatives to binary thinking might look like. And we added an episode ahead of this one, which is why we say it's Episode 5 when it's really episode 6.  We hope you enjoy!Wayward by Dana Spiotta (bookshop)These Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara(Divorcing) White Supremacy CultureBinary thinking: https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/eitheror--the-binary.htmlAnna Sweeny, dietitian @DieticianAnna on Instagramhttps://www.wholeliferd.com/#welcomeKiese Laymon in conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom on The Ezra Klein Show.Hear To Slay episode, “Fat is Not a Feeling,” when Tressie McMillan Cottom and Roxane Gay talk to Julia Turschen These Bones Are Not My child by Toni Cade Bambara (bookshop)The Body Is Not An Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor (bookshop)Your Body Is Not An Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor (bookshop)Kelly DielsMusic by ZakharValaha from Pixabay Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay

Elizabeth and Larissa consider what alternatives to binary thinking might look like. And we added an episode ahead of this one, which is why we say it's Episode 5 when it's really episode 6.  We hope you enjoy!Wayward by Dana Spiotta (bookshop)These Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara(Divorcing) White Supremacy CultureBinary thinking: https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/eitheror--the-binary.htmlAnna Sweeny, dietitian @DieticianAnna on Instagramhttps://www.wholeliferd.com/#welcomeKiese Laymon in conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom on The Ezra Klein Show.Hear To Slay episode, “Fat is Not a Feeling,” when Tressie McMillan Cottom and Roxane Gay talk to Julia Turschen These Bones Are Not My child by Toni Cade Bambara (bookshop)The Body Is Not An Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor (bookshop)Your Body Is Not An Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor (bookshop)Kelly DielsMusic by ZakharValaha from Pixabay Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay

In conversation with Christine Kendall, author of Riding Chance, nominated for a NAACP Image Award, and The True Definition of Neva Beane Glory Edim is the creator of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club, book, and online community that showcases the universality of Black women's stories and experiences in and through literature. She also edited the 2018 NAACP Image Award-nominated anthology of the same name that featured a wide array of essays by Black women. A recipient of the 2017 Innovator's Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Edim serves on the board of New York City's Housing Works Bookstore. She is the curator of the new story collection On Girlhood, referred to by Jacqueline Woodson as ''a loving family of writers who came before me,'' that includes such towering voices as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Toni Cade Bambara, and Alice Walker--among many others. (recorded 11/3/2021)

Welcome back to Season 3 of Hoodoo Plant Mamas! This season we're doing things a little differently and are focusing on writing in the Hoodoo tradition. Each episode will feature a different Black writer who utilizes or discusses Spirit in their work. In this episode, we discuss Lucille Clifton's spiritual writing and get into some other Black women writers who also have work inspired by Spirit.  Resources "The Spirit Writing of Lucille Clifton" by Marina Magloire How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay (Editor) Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women by Akasha Gloria Hull  Black Writers to Explore: Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Gayle Jones, Sonia Sanchez, Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, Gloria Naylor, Octavia Butler, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Dolores Kendrick, Sherley Anne Williams, Ntozake Shane, SDiane Bogus, Tina McElroy Ansa, Shirley Jackson-Opoku, Jewelle Gomez, A.J. Verdelle, Devora Major, Phyllis Alesia Perry BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca. 

Marlon and Jake share their "gateway" books by dead authors, the first books they read that that turned them on—or off—the rest of an author's work. From John Steinbeck to Dorothy Parker, Umberto Eco to Norman Mailer, Ayn Rand to Carson McCullers, Marlon and Jake don't hold back in discussing the imprints, footprints, and thumbprints these books left on them. They also ponder the long-lasting consequences of the high school lit class, whether a gateway book can be assigned, and the enduring power of dullness in a novel, no matter the century.  Listen for this and more, including what Marlon and Jake think of The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara, edited by one Toni Morrison.  The Pearl by John SteinbeckThe Red Pony by John SteinbeckCannery Row by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckGrapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckEthan Frome by Edith WhartonThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryMrs. Caliban by Rachel IngallsThe Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullersSula by Toni MorrisonFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake ShangeNight of January 16th by Ayn RandThe Fountainhead Ayn RandAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezChronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García MárquezNews of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García MárquezEnough Rope by Dorothy ParkerThe collected poetry of Dorothy ParkerThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoFoucault's Pendulum by Umberto EcoThe Island of the Day Before by Umberto EcoIn the hand of Dante by Nicholas ToschesAncient Evenings by Norman MailerLady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LawrenceMiami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman MailerHarlot's Ghost by Norman MailerAn American Dream by Norman MailerWhy Are We In Vietnam? by Norman MailerThe Executioner's Song by Norman MailerLook Back in Anger by John OsborneLoot by Joe OrtonWhat the Butler Saw by joe OrtonSaturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" by Alan SillitoeAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyTess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas hardyThe Return of the Native by Thomas hardyAlready Dead by Denis JohnsonThe Salt Eaters by Toni Cade BambaraThe Lesson by Toni Cade BambaraGorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara

A young boy feuds with a muralist who has taken over a beloved hangout in his neighborhood.   Don't forget! The LeVar Burton Reads Writing Contest opens for submissions on August 1st. Check out www.levarburtonpodcast.com/contest for details. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Marlon and Jake ponder the tricky question of the last books by authors who've … um … left this mortal coil. Which last books are actually worth reading? (Not many, it turns out.) From Roberto Bolaño to Penelope Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath to Eudora Welty, Marlon and Jake discuss how an author's last book compares to their previous ones, how success and age changed how and what they wrote, and the wistfulness that comes when some last books are actually good and you wonder what the authors might have written next, if, you know, they hadn't died. Tune in for this and more, including Marlon and Jake's surprising thoughts on James Thurber's humorous memoir, My Life and Hard Times.Select titles discussed:Maurice by E. M. ForsterGo Set a Watchman by Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysThe Blue Flower by Penelope FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño2666 by Roberto BolañoExercises in Style by Raymond QueneauA Room with a View by E. M. ForsterPassage to India by E. M. ForsterSomething Happened by Joseph HellerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathAfter Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean RhysOne Writer's Beginnings by Eudora WeltyThe Robber Bridegroom by Eudora WeltyThe Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty“Where is the Voice Coming From?” by Eudora WeltyMy Life and Hard Times by James ThurberTypee by Herman MelvilleWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyUncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

It's our incredible pleasure to announce the upcoming second season of the WORD for WORDcast!Join us on Thursday, July 22 as we release Season Two's first episode, “The Appropriation of Cultures” by Percival Everett. It will be available on our website at zspace.org/pod, as well as on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and most other major podcasting services.This wickedly subversive story is directed by Rami Margron with a talented cast consisting of Cassidy Brown, Artis Fountaine, Safiya Frederick, Gwen Loeb, and David Everett Moore. Renowned jazz artist Marcus Shelby composes original music and the grammy-nominated Elton Bradman provides sound design. A crew of Lindsay Jenkins (Line Producer), and Kelley Ho (Production Assistant), were instrumental in bringing this work to completion.As of now, Season Two's schedule also includes:"A Pair of Eyeglasses" by Anna Maria Ortese - directed by Rotimi Agbabiaka - releasing in two parts on August 26 and September 2"Home" by George Saunders - directed by Sheila Balter - releasing on October 7"Raymond's Run" and "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" by Toni Cade Bambara - directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe - releasing on November 4We hope that you'll join us as we continue to bring your favorite short stories from the stage to the airwaves (and smart phones, and home computers…)

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by John Freeman, editor of The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, which is published by our friends at Penguin Press.  Topics of discussion include what "Modern" means, genre fiction, academia, The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara, Alice Walker and Kamala Harris, Emergency by Denis Johnson, and much more.  Copies of The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Readers' Club+.  

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! We'd love to hear from teachers today about their views on this story. Toni Cade Bambara writes wonderful stories with very relatable characters that seem to connect with many students today. Let's talk about one way to break down this story which is within the context of the hero's journey by Squeaky. She has a challenge with her reputation and her role. What are some ways you look at this story with your students? Toni Cade Bambara Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQOsqNIwTk0&list=PLHg_kbfrA7YAed7csjwv2u7xc_fOTCnW5 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmation=1 Did you enjoy the talk? Help us in running the channel with a one-time donation: https://ko-fi.com/thecodexcantina ================================= Books or Stories Mentioned in this Video: Gorilla, My Love: https://amzn.to/2SghTzi Channels Mentioned in this Video: ================================= #ToniCadeBambara #GorillaMyLove #RaymondsRun TABLE OF CONTENTS: 0:00 Introductions 0:22 Themes, Publication + Author 1:54 Plot Summary 3:42 Analysis 13:49 Wrap Up and Ratings Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Submit your entry here: https://forms.gle/41VvksZTKBsxUYQMA You can reach us on Social Media: ▶ The Literary Discourse Discord: https://discord.gg/2YyXPAdRUy ▶ http://instagram.com/thecodexcantina ▶ http://twitter.com/thecodexcantina ====Copyright Info==== Song: Infinite Artist: Valence Licensed to YouTube by: AEI (on behalf of NCS); Featherstone Music (publishing), and 1 Music Rights Societies Free Download/Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHoqD47gQG8 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thecodexcantina/support

Borrowing from a phrase in Toni Cade Bambara's #TheSaltEaters, Dr. Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr on Twitter) asks, "do you want to be well?" He also reveals his experience last week at the White House for the signing of the #Juneteenth holiday. There is also a mention of James Weldon Johnson. #InClasswithCarr #Kozskiusko #TonyaPinkins

Kiese Laymon — memoirist, essayist, novelist — is one of the most extraordinary and exciting writers working today. Best known for his acclaimed memoir Heavy, he recently bought back the rights to his first two books, the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourselves and Others in America and the picaresque coming-of-age novel, Long Division, so he could revise them and send them back into the world as they're meant to be. He joins us on the show to talk about language and memory, rewriting and rereading. Featured Books: Long Division, How to Slowly Kill Yourselves and Others in America and Heavy by Kiese Laymon, Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deeshaw Philyaw, Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara, and Corregidora by Gayl Jones, Sing, Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward and There There by Tommy Orange. Produced/Hosted by Miwa Messer and engineered by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Back in 1997, when Anthony Valerio’s Conversation with Johnny was first published, the world hadn’t yet seen The Godfather, The Sopranos, or Goodfellas. In this slim volume, Valerio explores two distinct Italian American stereotypes: the dashing man about town and the successful gangster. Nicholas, the descendant of parents who emigrated to America, goes back to the old Italian New York neighborhood where Johnny, the old but still powerful gangster resides, surrounded by acolytes and luxury. The source of Johnny’s power and wealth is assumed to be crime, but he is is a caring and nurturing godfather, listening closely as Nicholas cries about his married, lover calling it quits. He is also a ruthless don who can shower Nicholas with wealth, get him a job as a maître-d at a famous restaurant, or create a retirement home for Italian American Writers. But he can’t promise Nicholas an Italian-American culture that focuses on solely on art as if organized crime never happened. Anthony Valerio is the author of 12 books of fiction and non-fiction. As a book editor in major publishing houses, including McGraw-Hill, he was fortunate to have edited great writers such as Toni Cade Bambara, Shel Silverstein and others. His short stories have appeared in the Paris Review and have been published in anthologies by Random House, the Viking Press, and William Morrow. He has taught undergrad and post-grad writing at New York University, City University of New York, and Wesleyan University, and he has been a fiction judge at PEN's Prison Writing Committee. He works every day, is a jazz afficionado, and a passionate golfer who tries to get out in nature and on the links. About Anthony Valerio’s work, his friend and legendary children’s book author, the late Shel Silvertein said: "He knows his craft: he gets in, tells his story and gets out. It’s what good writing should be." I interview authors of beautifully written literary fiction and mysteries, and try to focus on independently published novels, especially by women and others whose voices deserve more attention. If your upcoming or recently published novel might be a candidate for a podcast, please contact me via my website, gpgottlieb dot com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Back in 1997, when Anthony Valerio’s Conversation with Johnny was first published, the world hadn’t yet seen The Godfather, The Sopranos, or Goodfellas. In this slim volume, Valerio explores two distinct Italian American stereotypes: the dashing man about town and the successful gangster. Nicholas, the descendant of parents who emigrated to America, goes back to the old Italian New York neighborhood where Johnny, the old but still powerful gangster resides, surrounded by acolytes and luxury. The source of Johnny’s power and wealth is assumed to be crime, but he is is a caring and nurturing godfather, listening closely as Nicholas cries about his married, lover calling it quits. He is also a ruthless don who can shower Nicholas with wealth, get him a job as a maître-d at a famous restaurant, or create a retirement home for Italian American Writers. But he can’t promise Nicholas an Italian-American culture that focuses on solely on art as if organized crime never happened. Anthony Valerio is the author of 12 books of fiction and non-fiction. As a book editor in major publishing houses, including McGraw-Hill, he was fortunate to have edited great writers such as Toni Cade Bambara, Shel Silverstein and others. His short stories have appeared in the Paris Review and have been published in anthologies by Random House, the Viking Press, and William Morrow. He has taught undergrad and post-grad writing at New York University, City University of New York, and Wesleyan University, and he has been a fiction judge at PEN's Prison Writing Committee. He works every day, is a jazz afficionado, and a passionate golfer who tries to get out in nature and on the links. About Anthony Valerio’s work, his friend and legendary children’s book author, the late Shel Silvertein said: "He knows his craft: he gets in, tells his story and gets out. It’s what good writing should be." I interview authors of beautifully written literary fiction and mysteries, and try to focus on independently published novels, especially by women and others whose voices deserve more attention. If your upcoming or recently published novel might be a candidate for a podcast, please contact me via my website, gpgottlieb dot com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Back in 1997, when Anthony Valerio’s Conversation with Johnny was first published, the world hadn’t yet seen The Godfather, The Sopranos, or Goodfellas. In this slim volume, Valerio explores two distinct Italian American stereotypes: the dashing man about town and the successful gangster. Nicholas, the descendant of parents who emigrated to America, goes back to the old Italian New York neighborhood where Johnny, the old but still powerful gangster resides, surrounded by acolytes and luxury. The source of Johnny’s power and wealth is assumed to be crime, but he is is a caring and nurturing godfather, listening closely as Nicholas cries about his married, lover calling it quits. He is also a ruthless don who can shower Nicholas with wealth, get him a job as a maître-d at a famous restaurant, or create a retirement home for Italian American Writers. But he can’t promise Nicholas an Italian-American culture that focuses on solely on art as if organized crime never happened. Anthony Valerio is the author of 12 books of fiction and non-fiction. As a book editor in major publishing houses, including McGraw-Hill, he was fortunate to have edited great writers such as Toni Cade Bambara, Shel Silverstein and others. His short stories have appeared in the Paris Review and have been published in anthologies by Random House, the Viking Press, and William Morrow. He has taught undergrad and post-grad writing at New York University, City University of New York, and Wesleyan University, and he has been a fiction judge at PEN's Prison Writing Committee. He works every day, is a jazz afficionado, and a passionate golfer who tries to get out in nature and on the links. About Anthony Valerio’s work, his friend and legendary children’s book author, the late Shel Silvertein said: "He knows his craft: he gets in, tells his story and gets out. It’s what good writing should be." I interview authors of beautifully written literary fiction and mysteries, and try to focus on independently published novels, especially by women and others whose voices deserve more attention. If your upcoming or recently published novel might be a candidate for a podcast, please contact me via my website, gpgottlieb dot com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Back in 1997, when Anthony Valerio’s Conversation with Johnny was first published, the world hadn’t yet seen The Godfather, The Sopranos, or Goodfellas. In this slim volume, Valerio explores two distinct Italian American stereotypes: the dashing man about town and the successful gangster. Nicholas, the descendant of parents who emigrated to America, goes back to the old Italian New York neighborhood where Johnny, the old but still powerful gangster resides, surrounded by acolytes and luxury. The source of Johnny’s power and wealth is assumed to be crime, but he is is a caring and nurturing godfather, listening closely as Nicholas cries about his married, lover calling it quits. He is also a ruthless don who can shower Nicholas with wealth, get him a job as a maître-d at a famous restaurant, or create a retirement home for Italian American Writers. But he can’t promise Nicholas an Italian-American culture that focuses on solely on art as if organized crime never happened. Anthony Valerio is the author of 12 books of fiction and non-fiction. As a book editor in major publishing houses, including McGraw-Hill, he was fortunate to have edited great writers such as Toni Cade Bambara, Shel Silverstein and others. His short stories have appeared in the Paris Review and have been published in anthologies by Random House, the Viking Press, and William Morrow. He has taught undergrad and post-grad writing at New York University, City University of New York, and Wesleyan University, and he has been a fiction judge at PEN's Prison Writing Committee. He works every day, is a jazz afficionado, and a passionate golfer who tries to get out in nature and on the links. About Anthony Valerio’s work, his friend and legendary children’s book author, the late Shel Silvertein said: "He knows his craft: he gets in, tells his story and gets out. It’s what good writing should be." I interview authors of beautifully written literary fiction and mysteries, and try to focus on independently published novels, especially by women and others whose voices deserve more attention. If your upcoming or recently published novel might be a candidate for a podcast, please contact me via my website, gpgottlieb dot com. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/italian-studies

Where to find the guests:  Akili Nzuri is @ablackmanreading on Instagram and he also has a linktree https://linktr.ee/ablackmanreading  Reggie is @reggiereads on Instagram and he has a linktree https://linktr.ee/reggiereads  Both can be found at @booksarepopculture on Instagram  Books mentioned:  The Street by Ann Petry, Cane by Jane Toomer, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III, Assata by Assata Shakur, Black Boy by Richard Wright, Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson, There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald, The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara, Gorilla My Love by Toni Cade Bambara, Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derrick A. Bell --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As we dive deeper into Pleasure Activism, we get to take an intimate look at adrienne maree brown’s loud and proud crush on the science-fiction writer and boundary-bending genius Octavia Butler. Later, we encounter writer Alexis Pauline Gumbs who introduces us to 5 brilliant women and gives us a glimpse of their relationship to and precious learnings from author and documentary filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara. Along this path, we discover and discuss themes such as the significance of bringing healing into our lives and others', the power of love as political resistance, the true meaning behind the word “sistering” and even our own shape-shifting preferences, among many others things. The Soft Edges Podcast is a project created and produced by yours truly, Mayis Rukel and Lucie Gérard. We release a whole new episode every Sunday at 12 PM CET (Central European Time). Our enchanting music is by the amazing Patrick Walinga and our beautiful graphic design is by the wonderful Yuri Sato. You can find us on Instagram at @softedgespodcast as well as on YouTube on the Soft Edges Podcast channel. Feel free to follow us on there for the latest updates and share our podcast with your friends, your family, your neighbours, your colleagues or even your plants (why not?) if you think they could benefit from it/enjoy it! Thank you so much for listening! We appreciate you endlessly. Your devoted hosts, Mayis & Lucie

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! This week we talk about Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson." A wonderful piece that really shows active learning in education. With the herd mentality and crab mentality layered on top of it, it's easy to see why this story is absolutely incredible! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmation=1 ================================= Books or Stories Mentioned in this Video: "Gorilla, My Love" by Toni Cade Bambara Channels Mentioned in this Video: ================================= #ToniCadeBambara #TheLesson TABLE OF CONTENTS: 0:00 Introductions 0:42 Publication, Author + Themes 2:22 Analysis 15:30 Wrap Up and Ratings Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Submit your entry here: https://forms.gle/41VvksZTKBsxUYQMA You can reach us on Social Media: ▶ The Literary Discourse Discord: https://discord.gg/2YyXPAdRUy ▶ http://instagram.com/thecodexcantina ▶ http://twitter.com/thecodexcantina ====Copyright Info==== Song: Infinite Artist: Valence Licensed to YouTube by: AEI (on behalf of NCS); Featherstone Music (publishing), and 1 Music Rights Societies Free Download/Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHoqD47gQG8 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thecodexcantina/support

This is recorded for a Clean Read of the short story written by Toni Cade Bambara to be used only by SMS sixth grade core teachers.

“The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of the community that it already serves. If you’re an artist who identifies with, who springs from, who is serviced by or drafted by a bourgeois capitalist class then that’s the kind of writing you do. Then your job is to maintain status quo, to celebrate exploitation or to guise it in some lovely, romantic way. That’s your job…” Toni Cade Bambara, interviewed by Kay Bonetti, 1982__________________________________Episode 2: Amara BradyWelcome to the Antiracist Artist Podcast, a podcast for activists, advocates and allies working to make our communities equitable through artistry. Each episode we are joined in conversation by an artist or arts facilitator who has been paving the way, in hopes of learning from their expertise and experience. Through action and unity, we can create a better tomorrow today. Let’s go!__________________________________Hello and welcome to the Antiracist Artist Podcast. I’m your host, Taylor Ybarra, and I’m so glad to have you a part of the conversation. In this episode of the Antiracist Artist Podcast we spoke with Amara Brady (she/her/hers), a theater maker from Chigaco whose mission is to uplift Women of Color, especially Black women, and the underserved communities. Graduating from the University of Oklahoma class of 2017, she has built an impressive portfolio of work being showcased at The Drama League, The Dramatists Guild, Joe's Pub, and The Wow Cafe Theatre.Amara wants to remind you to resist, check your privilege, and then give some space to Women of Color & Trans Folx. You can find Amara and her work at amarajanaebrady.com and on Instagram @bradynotthebunch During this episode, Amara and I talk about:The effects of anti-racism and how it permeates into every life aspect. From her own politics to her own desires and artistry.Understanding the separation of different artists’ works and how the pieces they create may or may not give a platform to social justice issues.How all the “-isms” are directly tied to each other like racism, classism, ableism, transphobia, etc.As an artist and person, Amara addresses social injustice and how art has always been the thing to mobilize and get people involved.Underrepresentation and the stereotyping of diverse people on stages.How success in combating racism is committing to a journey.Racism & COVID-19And so much more!Resources & Organizations Mentioned:'Skinny & White' Aren't Character Traits. In This Paper I'll Explain WhyA Second U FoundationUnibody FitnessJen Waldman StudiosAsian American Performers Action CoalitionRing of KeysEpisode Four of 'Skinny & White' Aren't Character Traits. In This Paper I'll Explain WhyBlack Womxn ExhaleThe Prosp(a)rity Project#BuyBackBlackDebt & Sonya Renee TaylorThe Nap MinistryAaron Phillip¡Palante! NYC | Jackie TorresThe Okra ProjectFor The GworlsEpisode TranscriptEach episode, we invite our guests to choose an organization to uplift, one that is creating a meaningful impact toward a more equitable, inclusive, accessible and antiracist future. In honor of Amara Brady in this episode, we have donated to Black Womxn Exhale. You can donate as well and learn more about their work at blackwomxnexhale.com and on Instagram @blackwomxnexhale.This podcast is made with, by, and for those of us in this fight together, and I invite you to be a part of this podcast community with us. You can stay connected with us at AntiracistArtist.com, on Instagram @antiracistartist, or by emailing antiracistartist@gmail.com. Let us know why antiracist artistry is important to you, what questions you would like to dig into, and who you’d like to hear from in future episodes. __________________________________The Antiracist Artist Podcast is hosted by Taylor Ybarra, produced by Subito Politico Productions, LLC, and edited by Andrew Alcaraz. To stay connected with the Antiracist Artist Podcast, please visit us at AntiracistArtist.com, on Instagram @antiracistartist, or via email at antiracistartist@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you!Our podcast is made possible with the support of folx like you. You can get exclusive content and access to the show by becoming a patron at patreon.com/antiracistartist. This episode’s donation was made possible in part by the generosity of Jenny Hoofnagle.Theme music features vocals by Esteban Suero, Forest VanDyke, Kennedy Kanagawa, Jamison, & MinJi Kim._________________________________________________Get Social!Connect with us! | Instagram @antiracistartist | Facebook.com/AAPcommunity | Twitter @AAPcommunity _______This episode features the following artists/arts facilitators:Esteban Suero | IG @estesuero / @theofficialerosForest VanDyke | IG - @forestvandykeKennedy Kanagawa | kennedykanagawa.com | IG @thisiskennedyJamison | www.courtneyjamison.com | IG @iamcourtneyjamison | TW @thecjamisonMinJi Kim | IG @minjilikesdogsandmusicMaricela Juarez | www.maricelajuarez.com | IG @remarkablymari

You may re-listen to Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara.

We are finally out of our two month Hiatus from the podcast- and we feel grateful for folks that have asked about our episodes, that share and review the podcast- and have supported us over the last two years. Our returning episode features the amazing and incomparable Jade T. Perry.  Jade moves us with Black feminist cosmologies, churchy mysticism, and embodied sensual ritual musings. Check out the instagram in the coming weekend as we will be offering reading resource guide from all of Jade's amazing wisdom shares.  The Hermit's call speaks to a post Jade wrote alongside the summer on Instagram Within this post Jade mentions and references the work of Toni Cade Bambara. How is our house in order in the ways of movement building? This Episode Features Churchy Origins by way of Philadelphia We are not here to be consumed- Spiritual Capitalism and our wayfinding throughPRO TIPS & Boundary Work Anansi Spider Wisdom Black Mysticism and Black Futures Why Lineage Citation and Referencing divination-Is ESSENTIAL In spiritual work LinksJade T. Perry Patreon Jade T. Perry Website The Nap Ministry @ItsJujubae (cited IG account)  @millennialsoulfood (cited IG account) Book Resource Guide available @thewitchesmuse platform Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse) or offer one time donations via Venmo @tarapin (this helps us pay podcast guests, supports music and mixing the episodes) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

In episode 1 of Syrian Sistars, we share poems, dreams, thikrs, and ancient goddess stories from our region. We ask: what are the places I can't imagine healing and how can I begin to tend to those places? We talk about Anwar al Bunni, a Syrian human rights lawyer, who opened a court case against members of the Assad regime. We talk about curses and how they can karmically bind you to the perpetrator-and an ancient Sumerian legend where this happens. The ancestors told me in a dream before uploading this podcast: It's not your job to change the people who harmed you. God is all forgiving & can do that work. So these are ancient tales about the interlocking nature of karma and transformation, and how a mother goddess initiates a justice process in her own way. It does not mean we should act like Ninhursag. Instead it is a roadmap from 5,000 years ago that raises questions about how this process looks differently for everyone.  In the last half we discuss 6 of the 99 names of God that are meant to be chanted. In Syria, the Assad regime has displaced 13 million + people. Our family and community lost their homes, many survived chemical weapons and relentless bombs, for wanting revolution. We need to imagine a world where we stitch it all back together again. We will return to Syria and we must begin to envision a reparations process in order for it to be possible. In the journey to liberation, when all else fails, we can start with ourselves, slowly forgiving ourselves for the things we hold against us, things that get stuck in our energetic bodies. We channel the divine nature of our Creator to help us through that journey. As Black feminist writer Toni Cade Bambara put it, ‘the revolution begins in the self, with the self.' So as we fight for accountability in larger world systems, we also begin the work of reaching in ourselves & liberating the parts of us longing to be free.  We center our pleasure & desires in those practices. We let loose the flow of divinity within us to create a more just and awakened world. Trigger warning: mentions of sexual violence and torture.  The chants we mention came via our teacher Gitanjali Hemp & the book Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the 99 Names of God.  يا غفار غفور-  Ya Ghaffar, Ya Ghaffur: the camel skin when it breaks, the beeswax that puts it back together. As you chant, find the energy in your voice, connect to that flavor of source energy. The words are divine mantra. These words of god are sacred to remind you of that divine quality of al Ghaffur within you. يا تواب - Ya Tawwab: The restorative transformative forgiveness that travels back in time and changes the conditions so that the harm was not possible. يا عفو- Ya 3afoo: Easeful forgiveness of a mother whose baby bites her. A natural grace. يا عزيز -يا منتقم- Ya Aziz, Ya Muntaqim: the alpha, the creator state of forgiveness that is all. A forgiveness that is the ultimate, no end and no beginning, absolute.  ------------------------- Other notes: Anwar al Bunni's brother is named Akram al Bunni, who is a prominent leftist writer. Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the 99 Names of God: https://physiciansoftheheart.com/ Gitanjali Hemp is a master energy healer whose work has influenced us: http://syntarasystem.com The Hymn of Nansha (clay tablet from 2144 BCE) and its associated rituals can be read here: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4141.htm Our background music is  "Alihat" by Juliana Yazbeck. We do not own the rights to this material. 

This is one of those stories I think meant to influence you, as always leave your comments on the youtube track version or here, but I get them better on youtube, you can always find me on twitter and IG as well. Make your suggestions comments and critiques. See ya.

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px} In a wonderfully perceptive and often humorous debut novel, Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid takes on issues of race and class in a delightfully light-handed way. It is the story of two women, a white woman, Alix Chamberlain who writes a kind of inspirational blog urging  women to take power in  the workplace, and a twenty-five year old black woman, Emira, who babysits Alix’s wonderfully precocious three year old daughter, Briar, so that Alix can work from home. Emira and her three closest friends, Zara, Josefa, and Shaunie are all recent college graduates; they often go our drinking and dancing together, and the novel opens with the four women at a birthday party for Shaunie. Due to an egging at the Chamberlain house which includes a rock being thrown through a doorway window, Alix calls Emira begging her to come take Briar away from the home for an hour or so since the police have been called, and Alix and her husband Peter do not want young Briar to be exposed to the hubbub of flashing lights and police in the home.Emira agrees, though explaining that she is dressed for the party and does not look much like a baby-sitter. No problem, insists Alix and promises to send a cab and to pay her double for the inconvenience. Since this opening scene is pivotal to the rest of the novel, I will recount a bit more without giving away much of the storyline. Emira takes Briar to a very upscale little convenience story nearby to keep her entertained during the police visit. Zara has accompanied Briar and Emira to the store and they end up dancing down one of the aisles with Briar leading the way. An overzealous security guard decides that, since Emira is obviously not the mother of the child, he needs to intervene. A very tall young white man begins to use his phone to capture video of the encounter and to offer up advice to Emira.“Hey hey hey.” The man behind the cell phone tried to get Emira’s attention. ”Even if they ask, you don’t have to show your ID. It’s Pennsylvania state law." Emira said, ”I know my rights dude.” "Sir?” The security guard stood and turned. ”You do not have the right to interfere with a crime.” “Holdup holdup, a crime…what crime is  being committed right now? I’m working,I’m making money right now, and I bet I’m making more than you." “Okay ma’am?” The security guard widened his stance to match hers. ‘You are being held and questioned because the safety of a child is at risk.'Emira manages to call the Chamberlain’s home, and within minutes Peter shows up; the security guard completely changes his demeanor and the situation de-escalates. The young man who tried to intervene, Kelley, turns out to be a central character in the rest of the novel. Much of the early parts of the novel are taken up with conversations between Emira and her best friends, and Alix and her best friends. All of the friends are various shades of color, and the repartee between the women is often very funny and enlightening about working women in New York and Philadelphia, and the struggles with childcare.Although resistant at first, Emira begins to date Kelley.  They trade stories about their lives and soon realize how compatible they are. The third star of this book is Briar, or simply B, and her many interactions with Emira (who  she calls Mira).Alix, who loves the relationship between her daughter and Emira, begins to try to make Emira a part of the family, and seems to genuinely love her. Alix’s parents had come into a lot of money at some point in Alix’s childhood, and used it to buy extravagant homes and cars. As it happens, Alix and Kelley had a tumultuous relationship in high school, and that relationship causes near disastrous consequences for Emira and Kelley as well as Alix.Emira learns that not only does Kelley have a lot of black friends, but that he seems to date only light skinned black women. The many conversations between the women reveal so much about race and class issues, but author Reid is, I think, extremely skillful in stepping back as narrator and allowing the characters themselves to bring out the issues. Even when the novel turns very serious in the end, Reid refuses to enter in as omniscient narrator  or even to provide commentary on the actions that take place.Given that this is Black History month, I had initially intended to talk about Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Toni Cade Bambara, all of whom I have reviewed in the past years. But there is something so fresh and crisp about Reid’s writing and such a here-and-now look at questions of race and class that I felt I must review her novel. Hard to believe it is a debut novel, but then she has been writing for a long time and has published in many magazines.The combination of humor and wisdom in this book make it one that I hope will be read widely.

1. Kim McMillon will officially earn her doctorate in Interdisciplinary Humanities this summer at the University of California, Merced 2. Joyce A. Joyce, Ph.D, Chairperson of the Department of English from 2012 to 2015 at Temple University and a 1995 recipient of an American Book Award for Literary Criticism for the collection of essays Warriors, Conjurers, and Priests: Defining African-American Literary Criticism, Joyce earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia in 1979.  She has published articles on Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Arthur P. Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, Ishmael Reed, E. Ethelbert Miller, Askia Touré, Gil Scott-Heron, and Sonia Sanchez. Her current project is titled “Black Literary Essays: The Kaleidoscopic Imagination.” Her papers are housed in special collections at the Odum Library, Valdosta State University. 3. devorah major joins us.  Thanks to all who called in for this Libation to Toni Morrison. We close with Shamarr Allen, "I Love You." He is at SJ Jazz Summerfest Sunday afternoon, Aug. 11, summerfest.sanjosejazz.org     

Ja’Tovia shares the quotation from Toni Cade Bambara, “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” She also shares her thoughts on cyclical time, looking back to move forward, Afro-surrealism, her relationship with Orishas Yemaya and Oshun, centering Black women in her work, and much more. From her website: Ja’Tovia M. Gary (b. Dallas, TX. 1984) is an artist and filmmaker currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Gary’s work seeks to liberate the distorted histories through which Black life is often viewed while fleshing out a nuanced and multivalent Black interiority. Through documentary film and experimental video art, Gary charts the ways structures of power shape our perceptions around representation, race, gender, sexuality, and violence. The artist earned her MFA in Social Documentary Filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Www.jatovia.com IG @j_______g_______ Twitter @jatovia Follow the podcast on Instagram @diasporababes Music by Layle Omeran

One constellation of guiding lights for guest host Cat Petru's cultural production organization “We Rise” are Toni Cade Bambara's words: “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” Rhodessa Jones is this artist. On today's show we delve into her latest show When Did Your Hands Become a Weapon? and celebrate 40 years of Cultural Odyssey and 30 of The Medea Project. Guests include company members Fe Bongolan, Lisa Frias, Uzo Nwankpa and Chibueze Crouch…more Please note that we discuss rape culture and violence against women in this #metoo moment. The sharing is often intimate. Please take exquisite care of yourself as you listen. The post Womens Magazine – December 24, 2018: Women Saving Our Own Lives, The Legend of Rhodessa Jones appeared first on KPFA.

One constellation of guiding lights for We Rise are Toni Cade Bambara’s words: “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” Rhodessa Jones is this artist. With her latest show When Did Your Hands Become a Weapon? running thru this weekend at San Francisco’s Brava Theater, to 40 years of Cultural Odyssey and 30 of The Medea Project, we have a lot to dive into - and celebrate.There is also a ticket giveaway!! Email angieinlegal@yahoo.com for a chance to win!You can also connect on IG @the_medea_project and FB @MedeaProjectTICKET INFO https://www.brava.org/all-events/2018/10/25/when-did-your-hands-become-a-weapon ABOUT OUR GUESTSRhodessa Jones is Co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey. She is an actress, teacher, director, and writer. Ms. Jones is also the Director of the award winning Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and HIV Circle, which is a performance workshop designed to achieve personal and social transformation with incarcerated women and women living with HIV. During fall 2017 and winter 2018 Rhodessa was a Frank H. T. Rhodes Visiting Professor at CORNELL UNIVERSITY and a MONTGOMERY FELLOW at DARTMOUTH COLLEGE conducting lectures and workshops at these prestigious institutions. In December 2016 Rhodessa received a THEATRE BAY AREA LEGACY AWARD presented to individuals that have made “extraordinary contributions to the Bay Area theatre community.” In 2014 she received The Sui Generis Foundation Achievement Award for “one of a kind contributions which benefit society in unique ways.” More at https://themedeaproject.weebly.com/.Fe Bongolan (performer, dramaturg) 2018 marks Fe’s 26th year with The Medea Project as core member actor, writer, singer, dramaturg, and musician. Her prior performing experience includes the Asian American Theater Company, Teatro Ng Tanan, and Campo Santo Theater’s “Trail of her Inner Thigh” by Erin Cressida Wilson, which won the Will Glickman Award for best new play in 1999. She currently co-facilitates the Medea Project’s audio theater workshop in San Francisco County Jail.Uzoamaka (Uzo) Nwankpa (performer) is a fourth- generation descendant of women healersfrom Enugu, Nigeria, West Africa. She is a first generation immigrant to the west and dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the Igbo culture. She is a performing artist, dance facilitator, choreographer, educator, researcher, registered nurse and an advocate for healing through the use of the arts. As an advocate for communities that use the arts to heal, Uzo is dedicated to creating and exploring diverse ways to combine ancient practices with innovation.C. Chibueze Crouch (performer) is an actor, writer and teaching artist. She has performedinternationally, across the Eastern US and around the Bay Area using theater, film, movement, and song in her multidisciplinary creative practice. Recent performances include PARADISE: Belly of the Beast at Brava Theater, LIONS at Stanford University and mouth full of sea at the African American Arts & Culture Complex. In her free time, she teaches drama to Oakland youth at Destiny Arts and does freelance grant writing. Chibueze joined the Medea Project in June of 2018.

Author Danzy Senna joins Kate, Medaya, and Eric to discuss her novel New People, a romantic "comedy" of manners that overflows with insight into race and identity in America. Senna describes how she crafts historical/cultural geographies: of Brooklyn in the '90s, Stanford University a few years earlier, and the nightmare utopia of Jonestown. The dialogue reveals an author of personal, very human, tales with tremendous resonance for our troubled Trumpian times. Also, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday returns to recommend Toni Cade Bambara's novel The Salt Eaters.

Dr. Brittney C. Cooper, who is an assistant professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, explores the intellectual genealogy and geography of the work of African-American women over the course of more than a century in her book, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, 2017). While knitting together an understanding of the intellectual achievements and contributions of many African-American women, Cooper pays particular attention to Anna Julia Cooper, Fannie Barrier Williams, Mary Church Terrell, Pauli Murray, Toni Cade Bambara and the engagement that these women had with ideas, highlighting the contributions they made to racial knowledge, questions of gender, and civic engagement within the United States, from the period after Reconstruction through the 1970s. Cooper than provides a contemporary epilogue, integrating into her research the conversation around the beginnings of the #blacklivesmatter movement and the women who started it, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, and how they, like the race women who preceded them, have been compelled to attest to their primacy in thinking about and then coming together to form this more recent social movement. Cooper traces the spaces where Black female intellectual engagement took place, in places like the National Association for Colored Women, the club movement, and the pages of the political magazine, Voice of the Negro, as well as how some of this movement migrated into college and university classrooms and programs. Cooper's book engages with the actual ideas and concepts that many of these women voiced or wrote, as well as analyzing the intellectual conversations these women had with each other on occasion, but more particularly with their contemporaries. Beyond Respectability is both accessible and sophisticated in the discussion of American intellectual history, race, gender, sexual orientation, black feminism, citizenship, and social engagement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Brittney C. Cooper, who is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, explores the intellectual genealogy and geography of the work of African-American women over the course of more than a century in her book, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, 2017). While knitting together an understanding of the intellectual achievements and contributions of many African-American women, Cooper pays particular attention to Anna Julia Cooper, Fannie Barrier Williams, Mary Church Terrell, Pauli Murray, Toni Cade Bambara and the engagement that these women had with ideas, highlighting the contributions they made to racial knowledge, questions of gender, and civic engagement within the United States, from the period after Reconstruction through the 1970s. Cooper than provides a contemporary epilogue, integrating into her research the conversation around the beginnings of the #blacklivesmatter movement and the women who started it, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, and how they, like the race women who preceded them, have been compelled to attest to their primacy in thinking about and then coming together to form this more recent social movement. Cooper traces the spaces where Black female intellectual engagement took place, in places like the National Association for Colored Women, the club movement, and the pages of the political magazine, Voice of the Negro, as well as how some of this movement migrated into college and university classrooms and programs. Cooper’s book engages with the actual ideas and concepts that many of these women voiced or wrote, as well as analyzing the intellectual conversations these women had with each other on occasion, but more particularly with their contemporaries. Beyond Respectability is both accessible and sophisticated in the discussion of American intellectual history, race, gender, sexual orientation, black feminism, citizenship, and social engagement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Brittney C. Cooper, who is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, explores the intellectual genealogy and geography of the work of African-American women over the course of more than a century in her book, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, 2017). While knitting together an understanding of the intellectual achievements and contributions of many African-American women, Cooper pays particular attention to Anna Julia Cooper, Fannie Barrier Williams, Mary Church Terrell, Pauli Murray, Toni Cade Bambara and the engagement that these women had with ideas, highlighting the contributions they made to racial knowledge, questions of gender, and civic engagement within the United States, from the period after Reconstruction through the 1970s. Cooper than provides a contemporary epilogue, integrating into her research the conversation around the beginnings of the #blacklivesmatter movement and the women who started it, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, and how they, like the race women who preceded them, have been compelled to attest to their primacy in thinking about and then coming together to form this more recent social movement. Cooper traces the spaces where Black female intellectual engagement took place, in places like the National Association for Colored Women, the club movement, and the pages of the political magazine, Voice of the Negro, as well as how some of this movement migrated into college and university classrooms and programs. Cooper’s book engages with the actual ideas and concepts that many of these women voiced or wrote, as well as analyzing the intellectual conversations these women had with each other on occasion, but more particularly with their contemporaries. Beyond Respectability is both accessible and sophisticated in the discussion of American intellectual history, race, gender, sexual orientation, black feminism, citizenship, and social engagement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Brittney C. Cooper, who is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, explores the intellectual genealogy and geography of the work of African-American women over the course of more than a century in her book, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, 2017). While knitting together an understanding of the intellectual achievements and contributions of many African-American women, Cooper pays particular attention to Anna Julia Cooper, Fannie Barrier Williams, Mary Church Terrell, Pauli Murray, Toni Cade Bambara and the engagement that these women had with ideas, highlighting the contributions they made to racial knowledge, questions of gender, and civic engagement within the United States, from the period after Reconstruction through the 1970s. Cooper than provides a contemporary epilogue, integrating into her research the conversation around the beginnings of the #blacklivesmatter movement and the women who started it, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, and how they, like the race women who preceded them, have been compelled to attest to their primacy in thinking about and then coming together to form this more recent social movement. Cooper traces the spaces where Black female intellectual engagement took place, in places like the National Association for Colored Women, the club movement, and the pages of the political magazine, Voice of the Negro, as well as how some of this movement migrated into college and university classrooms and programs. Cooper’s book engages with the actual ideas and concepts that many of these women voiced or wrote, as well as analyzing the intellectual conversations these women had with each other on occasion, but more particularly with their contemporaries. Beyond Respectability is both accessible and sophisticated in the discussion of American intellectual history, race, gender, sexual orientation, black feminism, citizenship, and social engagement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Brittney C. Cooper, who is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, explores the intellectual genealogy and geography of the work of African-American women over the course of more than a century in her book, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, 2017). While knitting together an understanding of the intellectual achievements and contributions of many African-American women, Cooper pays particular attention to Anna Julia Cooper, Fannie Barrier Williams, Mary Church Terrell, Pauli Murray, Toni Cade Bambara and the engagement that these women had with ideas, highlighting the contributions they made to racial knowledge, questions of gender, and civic engagement within the United States, from the period after Reconstruction through the 1970s. Cooper than provides a contemporary epilogue, integrating into her research the conversation around the beginnings of the #blacklivesmatter movement and the women who started it, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, and how they, like the race women who preceded them, have been compelled to attest to their primacy in thinking about and then coming together to form this more recent social movement. Cooper traces the spaces where Black female intellectual engagement took place, in places like the National Association for Colored Women, the club movement, and the pages of the political magazine, Voice of the Negro, as well as how some of this movement migrated into college and university classrooms and programs. Cooper’s book engages with the actual ideas and concepts that many of these women voiced or wrote, as well as analyzing the intellectual conversations these women had with each other on occasion, but more particularly with their contemporaries. Beyond Respectability is both accessible and sophisticated in the discussion of American intellectual history, race, gender, sexual orientation, black feminism, citizenship, and social engagement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Brittney C. Cooper, who is an assistant professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, explores the intellectual genealogy and geography of the work of African-American women over the course of more than a century in her book, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, 2017). While knitting together an understanding of the intellectual achievements and contributions of many African-American women, Cooper pays particular attention to Anna Julia Cooper, Fannie Barrier Williams, Mary Church Terrell, Pauli Murray, Toni Cade Bambara and the engagement that these women had with ideas, highlighting the contributions they made to racial knowledge, questions of gender, and civic engagement within the United States, from the period after Reconstruction through the 1970s. Cooper than provides a contemporary epilogue, integrating into her research the conversation around the beginnings of the #blacklivesmatter movement and the women who started it, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, and how they, like the race women who preceded them, have been compelled to attest to their primacy in thinking about and then coming together to form this more recent social movement. Cooper traces the spaces where Black female intellectual engagement took place, in places like the National Association for Colored Women, the club movement, and the pages of the political magazine, Voice of the Negro, as well as how some of this movement migrated into college and university classrooms and programs. Cooper's book engages with the actual ideas and concepts that many of these women voiced or wrote, as well as analyzing the intellectual conversations these women had with each other on occasion, but more particularly with their contemporaries. Beyond Respectability is both accessible and sophisticated in the discussion of American intellectual history, race, gender, sexual orientation, black feminism, citizenship, and social engagement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Dr. Brittney C. Cooper, who is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, explores the intellectual genealogy and geography of the work of African-American women over the course of more than a century in her book, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, 2017). While knitting together an understanding of the intellectual achievements and contributions of many African-American women, Cooper pays particular attention to Anna Julia Cooper, Fannie Barrier Williams, Mary Church Terrell, Pauli Murray, Toni Cade Bambara and the engagement that these women had with ideas, highlighting the contributions they made to racial knowledge, questions of gender, and civic engagement within the United States, from the period after Reconstruction through the 1970s. Cooper than provides a contemporary epilogue, integrating into her research the conversation around the beginnings of the #blacklivesmatter movement and the women who started it, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, and how they, like the race women who preceded them, have been compelled to attest to their primacy in thinking about and then coming together to form this more recent social movement. Cooper traces the spaces where Black female intellectual engagement took place, in places like the National Association for Colored Women, the club movement, and the pages of the political magazine, Voice of the Negro, as well as how some of this movement migrated into college and university classrooms and programs. Cooper’s book engages with the actual ideas and concepts that many of these women voiced or wrote, as well as analyzing the intellectual conversations these women had with each other on occasion, but more particularly with their contemporaries. Beyond Respectability is both accessible and sophisticated in the discussion of American intellectual history, race, gender, sexual orientation, black feminism, citizenship, and social engagement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When one thinks of books and thinks of Toni, we all know who comes to mind- our Nobel laureate, Pulitzer prize winning grand dame, Toni Morrison. Yet in the world of literature, there are two 'Tonis', and today we are focusing on the equally important Toni Cade Bambara. As with last weeks episode, our featured writer was brought up in the fertile creative environment of Harlem New York. Bambara's approach to writing was shaped in this culturally rich community and later augmented with an extensive academic and professional pedigree. The result is a singular style of prose characterized by poetic streams of consciousness, non-linear plots, incredibly diverse dialogue that is unerringly tuned into the nuances of race, gender, age, and culture, as well as a commitment to connecting contemporary events to the fate of her characters. Bambara's first book, 'The Black Woman' published in 1971, was a groundbreaking anthology which featured women writers. Her collections of short fiction, 'Gorilla, My Love' and 'The Seabirds Are Still Alive', established her voice in the American Literary landscape. Her 1980 masterpiece, the novel 'The Salt Eaters', won the American Book Award. Bambara then turned her attention to filmmaking, collaborating with Louis Massiah of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia to create the award winning documentary 'The Bombing of Osage Avenue'. In 1995, Toni Cade Bambara joined the ancestors, but she left behind two more books; one a collection of fiction and essays entitled 'Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions', and a haunting novel about the Atlanta child murders, 'Those Bones Are Not My Child', which was editing by Toni Morrison herself. Black Books Live is presenting three excerpts today.

Thabiti Lewis teaches in the English department at WSUV. He is the author of Ballers of the New School: Race, Sport and American Culture . Lewis also teaches courses in the areas of African American Studies and American Studies. While he has a strong interest in race and American sport culture, a primary focus is the author Toni Cade Bambara. Additionally, he is interested in representations of Black masculinity in popular culture and African American literature. Lewis has also written for newspapers and magazines, and delivered numerous radio commentaries. He has lectured widely on these topics. WEBSITE: http://thabitilewis.com/