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2020/09/25
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2026/01/31
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Hear book talks, conversations, special presentations, stories about the happenings in the library, the Labs, and Washington, DC, and much more! This show is recorded from the Labs Recording Studio at the historic, modernized, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown Washington, D.C. This podcast was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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Get Lit: Cross, Flores Anderson, Dunham, and Fleury (Special Edition)
2026/01/31
In this episode, Chris Stevenson talks to four writers with emphasis on why they write and what to do about it.  We also get to hear excerpts from Tracy Cross’s A Gathering of Weapons and Lacey N. Dunham’s The Belles.    Credits: Tracy Cross Melissa Flores Anderson Lacey Dunham Spencer Fleury   Music:  All music is from Pixabay and is used in their content license.    Psychedelic Chilled Trip Hop Full by catch22music https://pixabay.com/music/beats-psychedelic-chilled-trip-hop-full-366217/   Debussy - Clair de Lune - L. 75 - Arranged for Music Box (Version 2) by Debussy performed by GregorQuendel https://pixabay.com/music/lullabies-debussy-clair-de-lune-l-75-arranged-for-music-box-version-2-228857/   Halloween Piano~Nightmare Friday by pianocafe_Kumi https://pixabay.com/music/modern-classical-halloween-pianonightmare-friday-366032/   Chill Trip Hop (Short Version) by  BoDleasons https://pixabay.com/music/beats-chill-trip-hop-short-version-401932/#/   For Her Chill Upbeat Summel Travel Vlog and IG Music Royalty Free Use by Anonymous https://pixabay.com/music/beats-for-her-chill-upbeat-summel-travel-vlog-and-ig-music-royalty-free-use-202298/#/   Vampiric Heritage - Victorian Gothic Piano by Joel Fazhari https://pixabay.com/music/modern-classical-vampiric-heritage-victorian-gothic-piano-music-241158/   Dreadful Darlings (horror trailer) by MYCATWROTETHIS  https://pixabay.com/music/horror-scene-dreadful-darlings-horror-trailer-285546/   Je vais trouver by olleaugust https://pixabay.com/music/electronic-je-vais-trouver-441385/#/          
Get Lit: Gray, Angelella, Lennox, Seibel
2025/08/13
Please be advised that this episode contains explicit language.  Join us this month as  we talk to Sarah Gray, who has a memoir out with Simon and Schuster titled, An Everlasting Life. She’s also a member of the DC Library Writers Workshop and she’ll read her piece The Lacemaker (read here) and we’ll talk about expectations and publishing a memoir.  We also have the director of my old Alma Mater, the Jimenez Porter Writers House at the University of Maryland. Ross Angelella. He is an award winning novelist and screenwriter.  Then we talk with the prolific (over 200 books written) Best-Selling and self-published author Valerie Lennox. We talk to her about work and writing and the work of writing. Then we finish up with indie favorite Kyle Seibel, whose latest book Hey You Assholes (from Clash Books)! Is catching buzz everywhere. We talk to him about work, working and writing, and the work of writing.   Credits 8/12/2025   Java Pop by Spires That in the Sunset Rise is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Spires_That_in_the_Sunset_Rise/Curse_the_Traced_Bird/Java_Pop/   Washington, DC by The Nighttime Adventure Society is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society/Chapter_One_The_First_Chapter/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society_-_Chapter_One-_The_First_Chapter_-_01_Washington_DC/   $x4 (MicroSong) by sthm is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/x4_MicroSong/   Re-Function! by junior85 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/junior85_-_08_-_Re-Function/   Radiate Instrumental (GLASS).mp3 by Nuisance is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/nuisance/glass-instrumental/radiate-instrumental-glassmp3/   zate it with a spork by Uncle Milk is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/zate_it_with_a_spork_1516/          
Get Lit: Robbins, Bock, Colson, Scott and Carr
2025/07/16
Join us this month as we talk with author Denise S. Robbins who has a new book out called The Unmapping; the Washington Writers Publishing House co-president Caroline Bock and Jona Colson, who are celebrating WWPH’s 50th anniversary; author Rion Amilcar Scott who reads from his book, The World Does Not Require You; and indie lit legend Brian Allen Carr, author of Bad Foundations, Opioid, Indiana, Short Bus, and others.    Denise S. Robbins is from Madison, Wisconsin, the city where she grew up and to which she returned after sixteen years of living and working in climate activism on the East Coast. In Madison, she lives with her husband in a yellow house circled by oaks and pines and two owls, and works as a consultant for several climate advocacy groups. She is a Pushcart Prize–nominated author whose stories have been published in literary journals including The Barcelona Review, Gulf Coast, and many more. Her debut novel, The Unmapping, was published in June 2025 from Mareas at Bindery Books. It is number 2 on People Magazine’s top reads for the summer.  The Unmapping is on order at DCPL. You can place a hold for when it arrives.    Caroline Bock’s short story collection, Carry Her Home, received the 2018 WWPH Fiction Prize. She is the author of two critically acclaimed young adult novels, LIE and Before My Eyes, from St. Martin’s Press. In addition to her role as co-president, she is the prose editor at WWPH Writes, our bi-weekly literary journal, and the co-editor of our 2021 anthology This Is What America Looks Like Fiction and Poetry from D.C. Maryland, and Virginia. Her new novel, THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. (Regal House Publishing) will be published on June 2, 2026. Jona Colson’s poetry collection, Said Through Glass, won the 2018 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from WWPH. He teaches English at Montgomery College. Notably, in addition to his role as co-president, he is the poetry editor of WWPH Writes, our bi-weekly literary journal, and the co-editor of This Is What America Looks Like: Poetry and Fiction from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. He is also the translator for Aguas/Waters by Miguel Avero, our first work in translation, published in May 2024.   Rion Amilcar Scott was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. His parents are from Trinidad and came to the United States to study at Howard University. He graduated from George Mason University and teaches at The University of Maryland, College Park. His book Insurrections: Stories is available from DCPL 2019:The World Doesn't Require You  is available from DCPL   Brian Allen Carr is an Aspen Words Finalist and two time Wonderland Book Award winner. His books include Opioid, Indiana, Bad Foundations and several others. He is from Texas and lives in Indiana. His novel Sip is available through DCPL. His novel Opioid, Indiana is available through DCPL. ********************************************************************************************************************************************* Credits  Dream Pop by HoliznaCC0 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/only-in-the-milky-way-part-3/dream-pop/ Dark Ambient Music (Death And Forever) by TheBoseDeity  is licensed under the Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License. https://freesound.org/people/TheBoseDeity/sounds/395691/   Java Pop by Spires That in the Sunset Rise is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Spires_That_in_the_Sunset_Rise/Curse_the_Traced_Bird/Java_Pop/   Washington, DC by The Nighttime Adventure Society is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society/Chapter_One_The_First_Chapter/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society_-_Chapter_One-_The_First_Chapter_-_01_Washington_DC/   kalas by Uncle Milk is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/kalas_1886/   Function! by junior85 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/junior85_-_07_-_Function/    Re-Function! by junior85 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/junior85_-_08_-_Re-Function/   Tipping Point by Ellennerv is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/Tipping_Point/   Pasty Cline “I’m Gonna Walk Some Dog” is in the public domain and is an official record of the United States Army. Armed Forces Radio Service.   Arkansas Traveler by ecfike is licensed under a CC0 license https://freesound.org/people/ecfike/sounds/135127/ All audio comments are consented to by the The Labs Consent and Release form.    Chorale by Andrew Christopher Smith is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. Palimpseste by Iliaque is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License. Times square 1700.m4a by olofguf is licensed under CC0.  https://freesound.org/people/olofgud/sounds/639703/  
Get Lit: Christina Tudor, Melissa Scholes Young, Cynthia Via, and OF Cieri
2025/06/11
Join us as we celebrate the publication of Grit and Gravity, volume 11 of the Grace and Gravity series, a series dedicated to women writers in the DC area.  Christina Tudor and Cynthia Via are two of the excellent writers in the series. (and are both alums of the DC Public Library writers workshops). We chat briefly with Melissa Scholes Young, the editor of the series. As part of a new spot on writers and their jobs and the business of writing, we talk to OF Cieri.       Credits  Dream Pop by HoliznaCC0 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/only-in-the-milky-way-part-3/dream-pop/ Dark Ambient Music (Death And Forever) byTheBoseDeity  is licensed under the Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License. https://freesound.org/people/TheBoseDeity/sounds/395691/ Java Pop by Spires That in the Sunset Rise is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Spires_That_in_the_Sunset_Rise/Curse_the_Traced_Bird/Java_Pop/ Washington, DC by The Nighttime Adventure Society is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society/Chapter_One_The_First_Chapter/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society_-_Chapter_One-_The_First_Chapter_-_01_Washington_DC/  Inside the Crystal Cave by Kate Kody is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kate-kody/single/inside-the-crystal-cave/ $x4 (MicroSong) by sthm is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/x4_MicroSong/ kalas by Uncle Milk is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/kalas_1886/ Function! by junior85 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/junior85_-_07_-_Function/  Re-Function! by junior85 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/junior85_-_08_-_Re-Function/ Tipping Point by Ellennerv is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/Tipping_Point/ Pasty Cline “I’m Gonna Walk Some Dog” is in the public domain and is an official record of the United States Army. Armed Forces Radio Service.   Arkansas Traveler by ecfike us licenssed under a CC0 license https://freesound.org/people/ecfike/sounds/135127/ All audio comments are consented to by the The Labs Consent and Release form. 
Get Lit: Austin Ross, Alan Good, and Joey Hedger
2025/04/10
This month we have local writers Austin Ross and Joey Hedger, both with books out with Malarkey Books. We also have Alan Good, editor of Malarkey Books, who has published a slew of DC writers.    Credits   Java Pop by Spires That in the Sunset Rise is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Spires_That_in_the_Sunset_Rise/Curse_the_Traced_Bird/Java_Pop/   Washington, DC by The Nighttime Adventure Society is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society/Chapter_One_The_First_Chapter/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society_-_Chapter_One-_The_First_Chapter_-_01_Washington_DC/   Always Faithful by Ketsa is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/cc-by-free-to-use-for-anything/always-faithful/   Bantu by Sneaky Club is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/sneaky-club/single/bantu/   Cellar Door by HoliznaCC0 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/lo-fi-and-chill/cellar-door/   zate it with a spork by Uncle Milk is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/zate_it_with_a_spork_1516/   Re-Function! by junior85 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/junior85_-_08_-_Re-Function/   CHASIN' IT by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/CHASIN_IT_________________________1-14/   BACK TO THE WOODS by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/BACK_TO_THE_WOODS____1-03/   SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/SOLO_ACOUSTIC_GUITAR_3-11/  
Notes from the Library: Health & Human Services
2025/03/19
***From 2019*** In this episode, host Victor Benitez interviews Jean Badalamenti,  Health & Human Services Coordinator for the DC Public Library and Peer Outreach Specialists Jerome and Renee  to talk about about the library's role in assisting DC's most vulnerable and at-risk residents.  
Get Lit: Margaret Roberts Drucker and Ivy Grimes
2025/03/12
Join as Margaret Roberts Drucker returns with another scary story, Chris makes a soothing song for these troubling times,  and Ivy Grimes reads her piece about someone swallowing a glass piano.  Credits Re-Function! by junior85 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. Life’s Small Pleasures by Christopher Stevenson: DC Metro - Interior 1 by crashoveride6 is licensed under CC0https://freesound.org/people/crashoverride6/sounds/219233/ Baby Girl 1 year old - Coos, Gurgles, Drops Toys by Sauron974 is licensed under CC0https://freesound.org/people/Sauron974/sounds/244237/ Soothing Serenade by Universfield is licensed under Attribution 4.0https://freesound.org/people/Universfield/sounds/719269/ Mockingbird by AlucardsBride is licensed under CC0https://freesound.org/people/AlucardsBride/sounds/179928/ Goog rain and thunder by Soundman9826 is licended under CC0https://freesound.org/people/soundman9826/sounds/193331/ Kingston NY late summer midnight crickets - some mic and freeway noise from middle.wav by samwd is licensed under CC0https://freesound.org/people/samwd/sounds/402734/ Brazilian_Waterfall_River .wav by SuperStudioBR is licensed under Attribution 4.0https://freesound.org/people/SuperStudioBR/sounds/669180/ Jamesport Wind Chimes.wav by acclivity is licensed under Attribution 4.0 NonCommercial https://freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/30606/ Improvisation on Lydian Scale - Saxophone (2) by emirdemiral is licensed under Attribution 4.0 https://freesound.org/people/emirdemirel/sounds/424911/ Tokyo - Drum Circle in Yoyogi Park by Manuke is licensed under CCOhttps://freesound.org/people/manuke/sounds/315885/   Dark Ambient Music (Death And Forever) by TheBoseDeity is licensed under the Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License. https://freesound.org/people/TheBoseDeity/sounds/395691/ Flower Dance by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Hoba by JAYUS JAZZ is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Java Pop by Spires That in the Sunset Rise is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Spires_That_in_the_Sunset_Rise/Curse_the_Traced_Bird/Java_Pop/ Washington, DC by The Nighttime Adventure Society is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society/Chapter_One_The_First_Chapter/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society_-_Chapter_One-_The_First_Chapter_-_01_Washington_DC/
All Things Local:Uncovering Roots: Genealogy and the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland
2025/02/19
In this episode Carla Wills and Negest Rucker joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss their family connections to slavery in Maryland and the Catholic Church. Recommended books related to this episode: The 272 : the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church / Rachel L. Swarns. The ledger and the chain : how domestic slave traders shaped America / Joshua D. Rothman Slavery and freedom on the middle ground : Maryland during the nineteenth century / Barbara Jeanne Fields. Facing Georgetown's history : a reader on slavery, memory, and reconciliation / edited by Adam Rothman and Elsa Barraza Mendoza. The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist. Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 / Allan Kulikoff. Gleanings of freedom : free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 / Max Grivno. Music used in this episode Title: Good Kids Inst Author: HoliznaRAPS/https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznaraps/good-kids/good-kids-inst/ Source: Free Music Archive / https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznaraps/good-kids/good-kids-inst/ License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
DC Public Library Presents: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail
2025/01/21
In this episode, we revisit the reading of Reverend Martin Luther King’s 1963 "Letter From A Birmingham Jail". It was performed annually as a staged reading in the Great Hall of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library prior to the library's renovation. Today, we continue that tradition in virtual form, blending voices familiar and new, including DC Public Library staff and community members.
Get Lit: Hannah Grieco and Rose Solari
2025/01/14
Join us with the opening episode of the year as we join local writers Hannah Grieco and Rose Solari as we discuss writing, teaching, and running a small press in Washington, DC.  Credits: Java Pop by Spires That in the Sunset Rise is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Spires_That_in_the_Sunset_Rise/Curse_the_Traced_Bird/Java_Pop/ Washington, DC by The Nighttime Adventure Society is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society/Chapter_One_The_First_Chapter/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society_-_Chapter_One-_The_First_Chapter_-_01_Washington_DC/ Dark Ambient Music (Death And Forever) by TheBoseDeity is licensed under the Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License. https://freesound.org/people/TheBoseDeity/sounds/395691/ Dream Pop by HoliznaCC0 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/only-in-the-milky-way-part-3/dream-pop/ 2 hour Delay by HoliznaCC0 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/only-in-the-milky-way-part-3/dream-pop/ zate it with a spork by Uncle Milk is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/microSong_Challenge/2015021275957958/zate_it_with_a_spork_1516/ Re-Function! by junior85 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License.
All Things Local: Love DC GO-GO
2024/11/27
In celebration of Go Go preservation week at the DC Public Library, Montu Mitchell joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss his Love DC Go Go clothing campaign and its connection to the culture of Washington, DC. Music by BOPD elevator by BOPD is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Get Lit: Kristi Ferguson and Stephanie Parent
2024/09/04
In this episode DC based writer Kristi Ferguson discusses writing, growing up in Brazil and the DC writing scene. Also joining the podcast is Baltimore based writer Stephanie Parent. She talks about sex work and her memoir My Dungeon Love Affair. Credits: Start to Finish by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/C_Scott/Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3/CScott_-_Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3_-_03_Start_to_Finish1/ Afrikaans by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/C_Scott/Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3/CScott_-_Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3_-_02_Afrikaans1/ Humphrey by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/C_Scott/Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3/CScott_-_Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3_-_07_Humphrey1/ Flagstaff by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/C_Scott/Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3/CScott_-_Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3_-_16_Flagstaff1/ Zuegma by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/C_Scott/Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3/CScott_-_Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3_-_14_Zuegma1/ Calming Piano Tune for Serene Moments by UNIVERSFIELD is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/universfield/calm-music/calming-piano-tune-for-serene-moments/ My Dreams by UNIVERSFIELD is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/universfield/calm-music/my-dreams/ Java Pop by Spires That in the Sunset Rise is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Spires_That_in_the_Sunset_Rise/Curse_the_Traced_Bird/Java_Pop/ Washington, DC by The Nighttime Adventure Society is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society/Chapter_One_The_First_Chapter/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society_-_Chapter_One-_The_First_Chapter_-_01_Washington_DC/
All Things Local: Paul Coates
2024/08/20
*Original air date: January 29, 2020.*Paul Coates is owner and operator of Black Classic Press, one of the oldest Black publishing companies in the U.S. He joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss his life, publishing company and how books shaped his life.
Get Lit: Michael Don and Jessica Harris
2024/08/07
Join us for our August episode, featuring interviews with George Mason Professor Michael Don and DC Library worker and poet Jessica Harris. Also, the bulk of the music on this episode comes from C. Scott's album Beats Vol. 3, a trip hop album in CCO, often used in tween games. Credits What A Beautiful Sunset is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 https://soundcloud.com/user-659340737/what-a-beautiful-sunset Steak Fingers by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/C_Scott/Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3/CScott_-_Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3_-_17_Steak_Fingers1/ Humphrey by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/C_Scott/Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3/CScott_-_Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3_-_07_Humphrey1/ Belview by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/C_Scott/Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3/CScott_-_Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3_-_06_Belview1/ Knuckle Uo by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/C_Scott/Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3/CScott_-_Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3_-_13_Knuckle_Up1/ Power Glove by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/C_Scott/Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3/CScott_-_Stage_Theory_Beats_vol_3_-_01_Power_Glove1/ Gentle Landscapes by Vira Miller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freesound.org/people/ViraMiller/sounds/743842/ Calm Wilderness by Vira Miller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://freesound.org/people/ViraMiller/sounds/743841/ Java Pop by Spires That in the Sunset Rise is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Spires_That_in_the_Sunset_Rise/Curse_the_Traced_Bird/Java_Pop/ Washington, DC by The Nighttime Adventure Society is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society/Chapter_One_The_First_Chapter/The_Nighttime_Adventure_Society_-_Chapter_One-_The_First_Chapter_-_01_Washington_DC/ Dark Ambient Music (Death And Forever) by TheBoseDeity is licensed under the Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License. https://freesound.org/people/TheBoseDeity/sounds/395691/ Every path but your own is the path of fate [Instrumental] by Robert Farmer is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Robert_Farmer/solo-guitar-instrumentals-2015/every-path-but-your-own-is-the-path-of-fate-instrumental/
Get Lit: Lauren Woods and Andrew Bertaina
2024/07/02
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