Greetings! As this Black history month takes off, you might want to check out these special offers with a few favorite and some forthcoming titles from the University of Illinois Press (UIP). And don’t miss the UIP’s free ebook giveaway of Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture by Badia Ahad-Legardy. Enjoy!
If you’re a book lover like me, you’ll want to check out this holiday sale at the University of Illinois Press (UIP). All UIP publications – including my biography Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom – are available for half their normal price through the end of this month. Why not take advantage of…
BIO – the Biographers International Organization podcast series – just reached a milestone. Its 100th episode features an interview with the co-authors of a biography about the first woman of color congresswoman, Patsy Takemoto Mink. Click here to hear fellow biographer Kitty Kelley interview Mink’s scholar/daughter Gwendolyn (Wendy) along with scholar Judy Wu. And you…
Curious about how you might travel back in time – virtually? If so, you should check out Time Machine: Bronzeville Between the World Wars, an exciting new project proposed by Chicago-born brothers Phillip Malloy Jones and Donald Brooks Jones through their company, Alchemy Media Publishing. This project’s proposed immersive digital app will allow viewers to…
At the Biographers International Organization Annual Conference this past May, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel with distinguished writers/media creators – Marilyn Nelson, Julia Sweig and Barbara Allen – who talked about their approaches to exploring life stories using poems, podcast episodes and documentary film. Information about this panel is detailed below from…