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About Angela Hooks
NBN Episodes hosted by Angela:
November 26, 2017
Reading with Patrick
It takes courage to walk into a classroom when students don't look like you. It takes courage to return every day to teach a class when students deval…
September 7, 2017
Chasing Down a Dream
The Blessings Series continue with a heartwarming novel, Chasing Down a Dream (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017), about what makes a family when trials…
August 29, 2017
Conjuring Freedom
What is the labor for Black soldiers of the regiment? That is the question Johari Jabir asks in his book Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in t…
August 26, 2017
Bricktop's Paris
When Dorothy Sterling wrote her book about nineteenth-century black women in America, she stated in the introduction that the book was not a definitiv…
July 19, 2017
A Lucent Fire
Jackson Poetry Prize Winner Speaks Patricia Spears Jones has been writing poetry since she was twenty and then she was "good." Today, the prolific …
June 27, 2017
Ruth's Redemption
It's A Love Story. Set in the 1800s, Ruth's Redemption (Lift Every Voice, 2012), is an unusual depiction of the lives of slaves and free blacks in …
June 20, 2017
Jaybird's Song
Josie Flint, known as Jaybird, narrates her story of life in Atlanta during the turbulent South as Jim Crow laws come to an end. Her school desegregat…
April 29, 2017
Primary Lessons
As an African-American child growing up in the segregated pre-Civil Rights South, Sarah Bracey White pushed against the social conventions that warned…
April 5, 2017
Son of A Preacher Man &
The tragic Tulsa Race Riots plus a smidgeon of romance equals to a compelling historical saga. Marlene Banks weaves fact and fiction together illustra…
March 29, 2017
Divas on the Screen
Five charismatic women navigate uneven terrain of racial gender and class stereotypes: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey an…
March 25, 2017
Cutting Along the Color Line
Business. Community. Politics. That's the making of a barbershop. In Cutting Along the Color Lines: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America (Univers…