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Something You Should KnowSeen, Heard, Valued: The Magic of Validation & Pronouns Are Weird! Here’s WhyDo you know your blood type? Do you know why we have different blood types? This episode begins with some interesting intel about blood types, why you should know yours and why some people actually have no blood type. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140715-why-do-we-have-blood-typesYou have probably heard about the value of validating someone else’s feelings and experience. What you may not have heard is the science that proves just how powerful it is when you want to connect with someone or influence them. When done right, validation can transform a re...
2025-04-0752 min
New Books in Literature"Salmagundi" Magazine: A Discussion with Bob BoyersRobert Boyers founded the quarterly Salmagundi in 1965 and has been its editor in chief ever since. He’s the author of 12 books, including most recently Maestros Monsters: Days & Nights with Sontag and Steiner and before that The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, The Academy and the Hunt for Political Heresies. Besides teaching at Skidmore College, he directs the New York State Summer Writers Institute.Salmagundi rightly prides itself on hosting wide-ranging, inquisitive discussions of major topics involving race, gender, literature, psychology and so much more. This discussion goes in depth on four entries from the magazine. First up: “Talking Race...
2024-05-2343 min
Great New American Essays"Salmagundi" Magazine: A Discussion with Bob BoyersRobert Boyers founded the quarterly Salmagundi in 1965 and has been its editor in chief ever since. He’s the author of 12 books, including most recently Maestros Monsters: Days & Nights with Sontag and Steiner and before that The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, The Academy and the Hunt for Political Heresies. Besides teaching at Skidmore College, he directs the New York State Summer Writers Institute.Salmagundi rightly prides itself on hosting wide-ranging, inquisitive discussions of major topics involving race, gender, literature, psychology and so much more. This discussion goes in depth on four entries from the magazine. First up: “Talking Race...
2024-05-2343 min
Advanced TV HerstoryThose Jefferson Women with Special Guest Elva Green (Pt. 2) In the second of our two-part episode, host Cynthia Bemis Abrams continues talking with Elva Green about her book, "The Jeffersons: A Fresh Look Back," which offers insights, interviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and rare photos from the iconic TV series. Ms. Green reflects on one of the best episodes from the seventh season of the show, which featured a tour-de-force performance by Isabel Sanford (Louise Jefferson). We listen to classic interview clips: Marla Gibbs (Florence) assesses Ms. Sanford’s contribution to the series and Ms. Sanford recounts her professional friendship with Zara Cully (Mother Jefferson). We also look bac...
2023-06-1620 min
Grey Matter with Michael KrasnyJohn McWhorter PhD - Linguist and NYT ColumnistJohn Hamilton McWhorter V is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University with a specialty in creole languages, sociolects, and Black English. McWhorter is also a major pundit on social issues, and currently a columnist for the New York Times. Our conversation is as much about the use of the language we use to exchange ideas, as about the ideas themselves.
McWhorter is the author of more than twenty books including Woke Racism, The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Losing the Race: Self Sabotage in Black America and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue...
2022-08-2356 min
The Glenn ShowRajiv Sethi – Our Gun ProblemMy guest this week is my friend Rajiv Sethi. Rajiv is Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and he writes an occasional newsletter at Imperfect Information. He’s published widely on problems of crime and segregation, among many other topics, and as you’ll hear in this conversation, he’s done some deep thinking about an area that is sadly pertinent to our society today: gun violence. I first ask Rajiv to catch me up on how economists are thinking about the state of financial markets today, and in...
2022-07-151h 24
New Culture ForumWar on Words: "We Publish What Woke Publishers Won't" - New Publisher Challenges Cancel CulturePublishing is one of the industries worst-affected by wokery. Staffed by young, left-leaning university graduates, most publishing houses have adopted draconian policies on who and what they will and won't publish. As a result, many top notch authors have found themselves essentially blacklisted, their worthy manuscripts rejected. Whilst international titans such as JK Rowling and Jordan Peterson are too big to cancel, many less well-known authors have struggled to get their works to the public. Until now.
Our guest on this week's #SWYSI is George Owers, editorial director of Forum, an imprint of Swift Press that will focus on publishing...
2022-05-0343 min
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsEntertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America by Michael Eric DysonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/494017to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America
Author: Michael Eric Dyson
Narrator: Michael Eric Dyson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 21 hours 4 minutes
Release date: November 2, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
This program is read by the author From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has...
2021-11-029h 04
Afronerd Radio1st Yale Black Female PHD in Astrophysics & Rev. Wright returns, Wed@7:30pmWow, is it time for the Mid Week in Review segment already? Welcome to a new episode of Afronerd Radio'sMid Week podcast, airing this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST. Join Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they tackle this (mid) week's most challenging issues: we congratulate Jedidah Isler for bearing the distinction of being Yale's first Black female to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics; it appears that actor, Matt Damon just can't stop being at the center of controversy for having an (allegedly) unpopular opinion-first it was about diversity now alternative lifestyle actors are the target (tact, sir...tact) ; comedian Trevor Noah start...
2015-10-012h 051st Yale Black Female PHD in Astrophysics & Rev. Wright returns, Wed@7:30pmWow, is it time for the Mid Week in Review segment already? Welcome to a new episode of Afronerd Radio'sMid Week podcast, airing this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST. Join Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they tackle this (mid) week's most challenging issues: we congratulate Jedidah Isler for bearing the distinction of being Yale's first Black female to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics; it appears that actor, Matt Damon just can't stop being at the center of controversy for having an (allegedly) unpopular opinion-first it was about diversity now alternative lifestyle actors are the target (tact, sir...tact) ; comedian Trevor Noah start...
2015-10-012h 061st Yale Black Female PHD in Astrophysics & Rev. Wright returns, Wed@7:30pmWow, is it time for the Mid Week in Review segment already? Welcome to a new episode of Afronerd Radio'sMid Week podcast, airing this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST. Join Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they tackle this (mid) week's most challenging issues: we congratulate Jedidah Isler for bearing the distinction of being Yale's first Black female to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics; it appears that actor, Matt Damon just can't stop being at the center of controversy for having an (allegedly) unpopular opinion-first it was about diversity now alternative lifestyle actors are the target (tact, sir...tact) ; comedian Trevor Noah start...
2015-10-012h 06
Afronerd Radio1st Yale Black Female PHD in Astrophysics & Rev. Wright returns, Wed@7:30pmWow, is it time for the Mid Week in Review segment already? Welcome to a new episode of Afronerd Radio'sMid Week podcast, airing this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST. Join Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they tackle this (mid) week's most challenging issues: we congratulate Jedidah Isler for bearing the distinction of being Yale's first Black female to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics; it appears that actor, Matt Damon just can't stop being at the center of controversy for having an (allegedly) unpopular opinion-first it was about diversity now alternative lifestyle actors are the target (tact, sir...tact) ; comedian Trevor Noah start...
2015-10-012h 05Afronerd Radio1st Yale Black Female PHD in Astrophysics & Rev. Wright returns, Wed@7:30pmWow, is it time for the Mid Week in Review segment already? Welcome to a new episode of Afronerd Radio'sMid Week podcast, airing this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST. Join Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they tackle this (mid) week's most challenging issues: we congratulate Jedidah Isler for bearing the distinction of being Yale's first Black female to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics; it appears that actor, Matt Damon just can't stop being at the center of controversy for having an (allegedly) unpopular opinion-first it was about diversity now alternative lifestyle actors are the target (tact, sir...tact) ; comedian Trevor Noah start...
2015-10-012h 05