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Dock Live PodcastsDock Pod with Dom: Crown, Stay fresh Work hardCrown was my co-host today and I gave a perspective on the Verzuz between the Lox and Dipset2021-08-1223 minDock Live PodcastsDown the River unto the Seain this episode I explore the idea of my co-host being a book and who my first co-host is.2021-08-1025 minDock Live PodcastsOnShore - "The Business of Lovers: A Novel" with Author Eric Jerome DickeyAll is fair in love and lust in New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey’s tale of two brothers, four women, and the business of desire.
Unlike their younger brother, André, whose star as a comedian is rising, neither Dwayne nor Brick Duquesne is having luck with his career—and they’re unluckier still in love. Former child star Dwayne has just been fired from his latest acting role and barely has enough money to get by after paying child support to his spiteful former lover, while Brick struggles to return to his uninspiring white-collar job after suffering...2020-12-301h 22Dock Live PodcastsOnShore -"Pale" with Author Edward A. FarmerDescription
"Some things just don't keep well inside this house ..."
The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd's invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household.
The secrets of the house are plentiful yet the silence that has encompassed it for so many years suddenly breaks with the arrival of the harvest...2020-12-0346 minDock Live PodcastsOnShore - "Conjure Women" with Author Afia AtakoraDescription:
"Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother's footsteps as a midwife; and their master's daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople...2020-12-0340 minDock Live PodcastsOnShore - "Remembrance" with Author Rita Woods"Stunning. ... Family is at the core of Remembrance, the breathtaking debut novel by Rita Woods." -- The Boston Globe. This breakout historical debut with modern resonance is perfect for the many fans of The Underground Railroad and Orphan Train.
Remembrance…It’s a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy…if you can make it there.
Ohio, present day. An elderly woman who is more than she seems warns against rising racism as a young nurse grapples wit...2020-12-0243 minDock Live PodcastsDPH - "The Organ Thieves" with Author Chip JonesThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.
In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker's death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family's permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the l...2020-11-1259 minDock Live PodcastsDPH - Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present; A Conversation with Author Dr. Sherrow O PinderBrief Description:
In Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present, Sherrow O. Pinder has brought together the writings and discourses central to black political thought and African American politics, compiling a unique anthology of speeches and articles from over 150 years of African American history. Providing in-depth examinations and critical analyses of topics such as slavery, reconstruction, race and racism, black nationalism and black feminism - from a range of perspectives - students are equipped with a comprehensive and informative account of how these issues have fundamentally shaped and continue to shape black political thinking. Each of the six...2020-10-291h 22Dock Live PodcastsDPH - Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering; A Conversation with Authors Dr. Boyce and Dr. ChunnuHistoricizing Fear is a historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppression is used in the present day.
Contributors ground their work in the theory of Othering—the reductive action of labeling a person as someone who belongs to a subordinate social category defined as the Other—in relation to historical events, demonstrating that f...2020-10-281h 10Dock Live PodcastsDPH - "River of Blood"; A Conversation with Author Richard CahanConversation with Richard Cahan, author of "River of Blood".
In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration’s efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and during the Civil War. The workers asked them probing questions about slave life. What did they think about their slaveholders? What songs did they sing? What games did they play? Did they always think about escaping?
The result was a remarkable compilation of interviews known as...2020-10-261h 03