African-American Life

"Apartheid in Indian Country? Seeing Red Over Black Disenfranchisement"

Rich Fisher — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:55:40 +0000

Over the past four decades, the efforts of the Cherokee Freedman to gain full tribal rights within the Cherokee Nation have, by turns, burned or simmered, so to speak; today, this issue is now being pushed back and forth in our federal court system. On this installment of ST, a review of such matters as we welcome back to our program Hannibal B. Johnson, a Tulsa-based author, attorney, and human-rights activist. Johnson tells us about his new book, "Apartheid in Indian Country?

"Into the Belly of the Beast: The Southern Arm of the Underground Railroad"

Rich Fisher — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:10:32 +0000

Our guest on this installment of ST is Richard Blackett, the Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, who joins us by phone.

The Best of ST in 2012: "Panther Baby"

Rich Fisher — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:22:41 +0000

On this "best of" edition of our show, we're listening back to a discussion from earlier this year with the author and activist Jamal Joseph. Joseph's autobiography, "Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention," is the focal point of our chat; it's an engrossing hybrid of coming-of-age candor, street-savvy wisdom, and recent socio-political history.

A Chat with Jacqueline Woodson, Winner of the Tulsa Library Trust's Anne V. Zarrow Award

Rich Fisher — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:02:30 +0000

On this edition of ST, we speak by phone with the Brooklyn-based children's and YA author, Jacqueline Woodson, who is the winner of the Tulsa Library Trust's 2012 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature. She's written more than 20 books thus far in her career --- many if not most of them concerning the modern African-American experience, especially from a young person's perspective --- and she's probably best known for "Miracle's Boys," her award-winning YA novel that filmmaker Spike Lee made into a mini-series in 2002.