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Books

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Arts & Entertainment

Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”

Guests: Deborah Plant, Autumn Womack, Johnnie Hobbes Jr. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo ...

Air Date: July 31, 2018 10:00 am

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Poignant, personal, painful: To editor, this book is not just history

“Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo,’” immediately landed on the New York Times bestselling list.

5 years ago

(Courtesy Quirk Books)
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Step aside Hardy Boys, Biden and Obama are on the case

A new book unites Joe Biden and Barack Obama as a crime-fighting duo investigating the suspicious death of an Amtrak engineer in Delaware.

5 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Happy Birthday, Harry Potter

If you didn't book your tickets to Hogwarts in time, celebrate the birth of the Boy Who Lived at one of these local events.

5 years ago

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Jon Meacham on The Battle for Our Better Angels

Guest: Jon Meacham Presidential historian JON MEACHAM j ...

Air Date: July 13, 2018 10:00 am

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NewsWorks Tonight
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At a ‘grit’ gathering, talking to teachers about character development

At her fourth annual Educator Summit, Penn professor and "grit" expert Angela Duckworth brings teachers from all over the globe. WHYY spoke to some about the theory.

5 years ago

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At Mighty Writers El Futuro in South Philadelphia, children donate books and make bookmarks for kids and immigrant families held at the Berks County Detention Center. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community

Book delivery from Philly kids to federal detention center hits snag

The goal was to provide a token of comfort, escape, to the roughly 20 migrant kids staying at the center in Berks County.

5 years ago

Alma, 11, and Yaretzy, 11, made bookmarks at Mighty Writers El Futuro in South Philadelphia Thursday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

As immigration debate boils, Philly nonprofit sends books to detention center

With the help of a $3,000 grant, Mighty Writers is giving more than a hundred books to migrant children at the Berks County Residential Center.

5 years ago

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Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Leonard Bernstein: father and composer

Guests: Jamie Bernstein, Jonathan Coopersmith Leonard Bernstein would have turned 100 this year. The revered cond ...

Air Date: June 20, 2018 10:00 am

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The new play space inside Whitman library in South Philadelphia. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
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Shh! This is a… jungle gym? Philly libraries remade for play

Three Philadelphia libraries now have "play-and-learn space," designed to bust up the old notion that libraries are quiet places.

5 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Mayor: The Best Job in Politics

Producer: Karen Smyles Friday Arts visits the campus of The University of Pennsylvania for an interview with Mich ...

5 years ago

Ron Stallworth (pictured here in 1975) was the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. (Courtesy of Ron Stallworth)
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How a black detective infiltrated the KKK

In his new memoir, Black Klansman, he tells the story of how he hoodwinked the Ku Klux Klan into thinking he was one of them.

5 years ago

In this file photo, former President Bill Clinton listens as author James Patterson speaks during an interview about their new novel,
Arts & Entertainment

Bill Clinton sticks to book and literacy in Philly appearance

Speaking at a book tour event in Philadelphia, former president Bill Clinton said that if it wasn’t for ...

6 years ago

In late August following a prison lockdown, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections halted book donations from organizations as well as inmates’ families and friends Now, the DOC is letting book donation groups communicate with inmates, and family and friends can buy books directly through publishers. (StudioDin/BigStock)
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Arts & Entertainment

Cookbooks, comics, and capitalism: Book clubs for every reader

Choose your own adventure with these book club offerings in Philadelphia and beyond.

6 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

A novelist and psychiatrist reflect on school shootings

Guests: Tom McAllister, Steven Berkowitz The aftermath of a school shooting is the subject of Philadelphia author ...

Air Date: June 4, 2018 10:00 am

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