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The Unacknowledged History of Black Creators and Black Characters in Comic Books

Darrell Goza discussed the history of black creators and characters of comic books, as well as the degree to which early African-American superheroes generally adhered to common stereotypes of black men.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Chris Jackson | One World Big Ideas Night
Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses his new book WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER with Chris Jackson, editor and publisher of One World books. Filmed at the One World Big Ideas Night in New York City, 10/4/17.

In WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER, Coates takes us on a personal journey. Part memoir and part polemic, Coates’ new book combines Ta-Nehisi’s award-winning journalism with the more introspective storytelling of BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME to illuminate what the Obama era has taught us about the heart of America and it’s unreconciled history. Coates powerfully examines the threads between the unprecedented election of Barack Obama and the vicious backlash that fueled the election of Donald Trump. He does so through his intimate and revealing perspective—the point of view of a young, black writer who begins his journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing the President of The United States.
Amazon Book Review: Marc Maron on WAITING FOR THE PUNCH
The comedian, actor, and creator of the popular WTF podcast talks to the Amazon Book Review about the origin of the show, his unusual interview technique, and the new book, WAITING FOR THE PUNCH
Threads: From the Refugee Crisis - Kate Evans
Kate Evans discusses her new book Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, a work of visual reportage through the medium of comic-book storytelling - and makes a compelling case for the compassionate treatment of refugees and the free movement of peoples.

"We need to question why there are migrants, why it is happening, what is it about the state of the world which is displacing so many people. We need to question militarism, we need to be noticing climate change and the factor that it plays in wars as well as other forms of displacement. "It blows apart this distinction between the economic migrant and political refugee, when you consider that large parts of the planet are becoming uninhabitable."
Robert Jay Lifton on the Apocalyptic Twins of Nuclear and Climate Threats
We spend the bulk of the hour with Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, a leading American psychiatrist and author of more than 20 books about the effects of nuclear war, terrorism and genocide. As NBC News reports President Trump has called for a nearly tenfold increase in the United States’ nuclear weapons arsenal, and as he threatens to attack North Korea and decertify the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Lifton examines what he calls the “apocalyptic twins: nuclear and climate threats.” His new book is titled “The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival.”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Visits the Young Readers Center
Debbie Levy interviewed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as part of the EveryBodyWinsDC literacy and career program in the Young Readers Center. Levy used her biographical picture book, "Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark" as background for their conversation about Justice Ginsburg's childhood, education and legal career leading up to her position on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Speaker Biography: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Speaker Biography: Debbie Levy is an author of books for children.
Public Health: A Very Short Introduction
Virginia Berridge, author of Public Health: A Very Short Introduction, gives her top 10 things you should know about Public Health.

Virginia Berridge is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. She has edited or co-edited 12 books and is the sole author of 7 books including Marketing Health. Smoking and the Discourse of Public Health in Britain,1945-2000 (OUP, 2007) and Demons (OUP, 2013). She has written overviews of health and medicine for the Cambridge Social History of Britain and of contemporary history for the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine. She has been Chair of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and President of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health.
Julie Houts & Karah Preiss | Literally Me
Star Instagram illustrator Julie Houts talks with Karah Preiss, of the Belletrist book club, about her new book.

Julie Houts has taken Instagram by storm with her beloved collection of dark and witty comic essays that satirize what it is to be a modern woman. Her work tends to center on the mildly antisocial women who try to maintain the balance between all the absurdities of life in the time of social media.

Karah Preiss is a writer/producer living in New York City. In March 2017, Karah launched the online reading community B E L L E T R I S T with her friend and creative partner Emma Roberts. Belletrist is a dedicated online community for readers, the books they love, and the authors who write them, with the goal of promoting intellectual curiosity both online and off. Recorded October 25, 2017
How America Got Divorced from Reality | Kurt Andersen
Americans have always been magical thinkers and passionate believers in the untrue. We were started by the Puritans in New England who wanted to create and did create a Christian utopia and theocracy as they waited for the eminent second coming of Christ and the end of days. And in the south by a bunch of people who were convinced, absolutely convinced that this place they’d never been was full of gold just to be plucked from the dirt in Virginia and they stayed there looking and hoping for gold for 20 years before they finally faced the facts and the evidence and decided that they weren’t going to get rich overnight there. So that was the beginning. And then we’ve had centuries of buyer-beware charlatanism to an extreme degree and medical quackery to an extreme degree and increasingly exotic extravagant implausible religions over and over again from Mormonism to Christian Science to Scientology in the last century. And we’ve had this antiestablishment "I’m not going to trust the experts, I’m not going to trust the elite" from our character from the beginning. Now all those things came together and were super-charged in the 1960s when you were entitled to your own truth and your own reality. Then a generation later when the Internet came along, giving each of those realities, no matter how false or magical or nutty they are, their own kind of media infrastructure. We had entertainment, again for the last couple hundred years, but especially in the last 50 years permeating all the rest of life, including Presidential politics from John F. Kennedy through Ronald Ragan to Bill Clinton. So the thing was set up for Donald Trump to exploit all these various American threads and astonishingly become president, but then you look at this history and it’s like no we should have seen this coming. The idea of America from the beginning was that you could come here, reinvent yourself, be anybody you want, live any way you wanted, believe any thing you wanted. For the first few hundred years, like everywhere else in the world, celebrity and fame were a result of some kind of accomplishment or achievement, sometimes not a great accomplishment or achievement, but you did something in the world to earn renown. America really was the key place that invented the modern celebrity culture, which was, beginning a century ago, more and more not necessarily about having won a war or led a people or written a great book or painted a great painting, but about being famous, fame for its own sake. We created that, we created Hollywood, we created the whole culture industry and that then became what I call the fantasy industrial complex where, certainly in the last few decades more than ever more than anybody thought possible before, fame itself, however you’ve got it, was a primary goal for people. And again, as so many of the things I talk about in Fantasyland, not uniquely to America but more here than anywhere. And then you get reality television, which was this unholy hybrid of the fictional and the real for the last now generation where that blur between what’s real and what’s not is pumped into our media stream willy-nilly. There are now more reality shows on television than there were shows on television 20 years ago. And that’s another way for nobodies to become famous overnight. YouTube, another way for nobodies to become a famous overnight for doing almost nothing or nothing.
Katharine Wilkinson: Drawdown
Katharine K. Wilkinson, D.Phil., is strategist, writer, and speaker whose work with Project Drawdown aims to change the narrative of Climate Change from “I have a nightmare” to “I have a Vision” by outlining tactics governments, industries and NGOs can take to make the earth carbon positive and reverse the buildup of atmospheric carbon within 30 years.

“The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming” maps, measures, models, and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. For each solution, Project Drawdown describes its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works. Backed by rigorous analysis and peer-reviewed science, these solutions are well understood and expanding around the world.
The revolutionary power of diverse thought | Elif Shafak
"From populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy," says novelist Elif Shafak. "From isolationists, we will learn the need for global solidarity. And from tribalists, we will learn the beauty of cosmopolitanism" A native of Turkey, Shafak has experienced firsthand the devastation that a loss of diversity can bring — and she knows the revolutionary power of plurality in response to authoritarianism. In this passionate, personal talk, she reminds us that there are no binaries, in politics, emotions and our identities. "One should never, ever remain silent for fear of complexity," Shafak says.
Anna Kendrick: "Scrappy Little Nobody"
Anna Kendrick joins us to discuss her book, "Scrappy Little Nobody".

About the book: An “honest, effortlessly funny, and alternatively relatable” (Harper’s Bazaar) collection of autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air,Pitch Perfect, and Trolls, “Scrappy Little Nobody lets readers feel like they have spent an afternoon chatting with their closest friend” (Booklist).

Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and “10 percent defiant.”

At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to “keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here’s the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.” In Scrappy Little Nobody, she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations.
Muhammad Yunus on Microfinance, Grameen Bank
Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, joins us for an extended interview on microfinance, the Grameen Bank, and how five men own more wealth than half of the world. His new book is titled “A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions.”
A Moment With Chris Colfer
You may recognize Chris Colfer from his Golden Globe-winning turn on Ryan Murphy’s hit show Glee, but we guarantee your kids will know him as the beloved author of The Land of Stories, a charming bestselling fairy tale series that wraps up with the sixth book, Worlds Collide, this summer.

With over a dozen published books to his name, and upcoming director and screenwriter credits for the film adaptation of The Wishing Spell, we just had to ask Chris—where does he get all his ideas?
Meet the Author: Jason Reynolds
Once a reluctant reader, author Jason Reynolds never imaged that he would become a writer of books for students in middle grades. And not just a writer, a New York Times bestselling author, a National Book Award Honoree, a Kirkus Award winner, a Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors.

During the live webcast, Mr. Reynolds discusses his reluctance to reading because the classics did not reflect the urban environment in which he grew up. Inspired by rap lyrics from Queen Latifah, he discovered poetry and his writing voice. Reynolds shares his writing tips and philosophy on life.
Yrsa Daley-Ward | Bone
Poet Yrsa Daley-Ward shares her work from her recent collection, Bone.

The inclusive and universal poetry of Yrsa Daley-Ward has touched the lives of many readers with her penetrating themes and raw humanity. Her work is known for biting to the core, the essence of what it is to be alive, and explores frequently clashing worlds from religion and desire to societal expectations and what it’s like living in the world as a black woman. Yrsa writes about the realities often hushed in day-to-day interactions, the depression, the abuse, the vulnerability of love, and pens these ubiquitous experiences into works of beauty.

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