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Podcast #237 – Marion Orr

House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr., is the latest book by this political scientist and the inaugural Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy at Brown University. House of Diggs w

December 4, 2025 31:59 Speakers: Eric K. Washington, Marion Orr

Podcast #223 – A’Lelia Bundles

Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance is the latest book by this award-winning journalist and author. Published by Scribner this June, it is the first major biography of Bundles’ great-grandmother. Bundles, a Forbes Magazine’s 50 Over 50

June 26, 2025 30:40 Speakers: A’Lelia Bundles, Eric K. Washington

Podcast #220 – Prathibha Kanakamedala

Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough is this author’s first full-length book. It was published by New York University Press in September 2024. Originally from Liverpool, England, Kanakamedala is a public

June 4, 2025 29:21 Speakers: Eric K. Washington, Prathibha Kanakamedala

Podcast #154 – Rachel L. Swarns

This week we interview Rachel L. Swarns, a New York University Professor of Journalism and journalist who writes about race and race relations as a contributing author to The New York Times. Her latest book, The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and So

December 1, 2023 29:16 Speakers: Eric K. Washington, Rachel L. Swarns

Podcast Episode #95 – Brian Harker

This week we interview award-winning author and Brigham Young University music professor Brian Harker. His latest biography, Sportin’ Life: John W. Bubbles an American Classic, was published by Oxford University Press in January 2022. John Bubbles was on

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Brian Harker, Eric K. Washington

Podcast Episode #77 – David Hajdu and John Carey

In this week’s episode, we interview David Hajdu and John Carey, collaborators on a biography in graphic form about three vaudeville stars. A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay and Julian Eltinge was published

29:39 Speakers: David Hajdu, Eric K. Washington, John Carey

Podcast Episode #75 – Kevin McGruder

In this week’s episode, we interview Kevin McGruder, Associate Professor of history at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is a first-time biographer and author of Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem, published by Columbia University Press

October 16, 2021 29:39 Speakers: Eric K. Washington, Kevin McGruder

Podcast Episode #42 – Eric K. Washington

In this week’s episode, we interview Eric K. Washington, first-time biographer and author of Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal (Liveright, 2019). This interview was recorded via an online Zoom ses

July 3, 2020 23:25 Speakers: Eric K. Washington, Sonja Williams

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