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Podcast #233 – Dana A. Williams

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship, the latest book by author Dana A. Williams about Toni Morrison’s significant tenure as an editor at Random House, was published by Amistad in June 2025. Williams is Professor of African American l

November 6, 2025 36:33 Speakers: Dana A. Williams, Sonja Williams

Podcast #227 – Alec Nevala-Lee

This author’s latest book, Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey From Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in June 2025. It explores the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Luis W. Alvarez. Nevala-

September 25, 2025 29:32 Speakers: Alec Nevala-Lee, Sonja Williams

Podcast #224 – Eve M. Kahn

This independent scholar and award-winning author’s latest book, Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded-Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris, was published this month by Fordham University Press. It explores the life of reformer and journalist Zoe And

September 4, 2025 27:28 Speakers: Eve M. Kahn, Sonja Williams

Podcast #205 – Mary Frances Phillips

This historian and author’s Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins, was published in January 2025 by New York University Press. It examines the life and legacy of one of the longest-serving women members of the Blac

February 19, 2025 27:42 Speakers: Mary Frances Phillips, Sonja Williams

Podcast #203 – Samantha Ege

This award-winning musicologist, internationally recognized concert pianist, and London-based popular public speaker talks about her first book, South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene, published by the Un

January 30, 2025 28:52 Speakers: Samantha Ege, Sonja Williams

Podcast #201 – Mark Clifford

This author’s biography, The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic, was published by Simon & Schuster in December 2024. Clifford is the president of the Committee for Freedom

January 24, 2025 29:54 Speakers: Mark Clifford, Sonja Williams

Podcast #198 – Pamela D. Toler

Historian and author Pamela D. Toler’s latest book, The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany, was published in August 2024 by Beacon Press. In addition to this biography of Sigrid Schultz, the fearless woman who h

December 6, 2024 28:48 Speakers: Pamela D. Toler, Sonja Williams

Podcast #191 – Patti Hartigan

This week we interview Patti Hartigan, award-winning journalist and author of August Wilson: A Life. This biography, Hartigan’s first, about the legendary, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who powerfully and poetically chronicled African American life i

October 18, 2024 29:35 Speakers: Patti Hartigan, Sonja Williams

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