african american authors

In honour of Black History Month in America and Canada we are sharing a collection of poems by Black American writers. 
Authors featured:   Phillis Wheatley Peters, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, George Moses Horton, Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr, Josephine D. Heard.

Music: Night Latch Key Blues 
Performed by Virginia Liston, accompanied by Ernest Elliot and Clarence Williams.

Featured Charity: Stop Hate UK
https://www.stophateuk.org/donate/

Three women , Jeanne Duval, Mer,  and Thais all have their own separate struggles but are all in search of love and happiness. but only one of them is the beautiful loa Ezili, who unites them all across time and space.

The Salt Roads

Nalo Hopkinson is the winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel. You can purchase her boos at www.HachetteBookGroup.com as well as on Amazon. This book is available as an E-
Book

If you have any suggestions for stories that you would like to share on my podcast, you can contact me at queenzoaya@gmail.com

This is the forty-third episode of "Talking with Authors" by HEC Media and HEC Books. We're a program dedicated to speaking with some of the best selling authors around, covering many different genres.

Today, our guest is Rachel Howzell Hall. We spoke with her via Zoom in September of 2020 about her newest book "And Now She's Gone" by publisher Macmillan.

Rachel Howzell Hall is based in Los Angles and the author of 9 novels and many short stories and essays.  She’s written science fiction, mystery, and crime stories featuring the character Lou Norton. But the story in “And Now She’s Gone” is one that really began a long time ago for her. We’ll find out more about the mix of magic, intrigue, and abuse in this latest work. And we’ll her about the literary volunteer efforts and very busy life outside of the page of  author Rachel Howzell Hall on this edition of Talking With Authors from HEC Media and HEC Books.

Our host and interviewer this time, Heather Ash.

HEC Media is a production company out of St. Louis, Missouri.  With the help of independent bookstore Left Bank Books and St. Louis County Library, we are able to sit down with these amazing writers and thought leaders to discuss their work, their inspiration, and what makes them special. You can watch video versions of most of our interviews at hecmedia.org.

Host of this episode - Heather Ash
Video Editor - Kerry Marks
Supervising Producer - Julie Winkle
Production Support - Jayne Ballew & Christina Chastain
HEC Media Executive Director - Dennis Riggs
Talking with Authors Podcast Executive Producer - Christina Chastain
Podcast Audio Editing - Ben Smith
Podcast Producer - Rod Milam
Podcast Host - Rod Milam

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This is one of the first "Did You Know" episodes, where we take a look at those who we enjoy in the capacity of entertainers, politicians, actors, comedians, etc., but we can also add the title of author to their names.  In this episode, we take a look at the rapper, producer, actor, businessman, and, unknown to many, author...50 Cent and his collaboration with author Nikki Turner in the novel entitled Death Before Dishonor.  The novel is a look into the lives of three characters, Trill, Sunni and Precious and how they deal with death and dishonor in the drug world.  

This episode is the first to be aired on Youtube under Reading to Feed the Mind.  

Share your book ideas or comments by sending an email to stacy.woods@ccucatalysbooks.com.

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This episode introduces the listener to Reading to Feed the Mind, gives a history of the host Stacy Woods and discusses her favorite author J. California Cooper's two books, "Some Love, Some Pain, Some Time" and "In Search of Satisfaction."