DC Public Library Podcast

Deborah and Dr. Dea Boster discuss the themes from the historian's book African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

Black Studies Collecti on at The People’s Archive Black Studies digital resourc es Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rid er by Charles Person, with Richard Rooker The Griots' cookbook : rare and well-do ne by Alice McGill, Mary Carter Smith & Elmira Washington Where is My Place? Experimental Arts Community Building and Re-Building in Washington, D. C. in Dig DC Pastor Angeloyd Fenrick inter...

Linda Crichlow White, President of the DC Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS), joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss the origin of AAHGS and shares tips for those who are beginning their genealogical research.  ***This episode originally aired in February of 2020 on Full Service Radio.

Music in this episode is adapted from DCPL's American Song database. A complete list of the library's music streaming databases can be found here .

On this month's episode of All Things Local, guest Lamont Carey discusses his life growing up in Washington, being incarcerated as a juvenile and re-entering society as an adult. We also discuss his life's work. NOTE: This episode originally aired on February 20, 2018 on DCPL Radio in partnership with Full Service Radio.

Tora and Tara will focus on STEM in storytelling, including its seeming absence in pourquoi tales and STEM teachings in Native American stories.

Part 2 in a series of conversations on a just D.C., featuring fellows from the Public Interest Design Lab, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut and the DC Public Library. This episode pairs two DC based fellows—Jenn Low, an integrative designer, educator and landscape architect, and Anna McCorvey, an architect and city planner, with guest expert Rosten Woo, a designer, writer and educator liv...

Check out a cop y of The Washington Century Check out a co py of Chocolate City Washington Community Video Center Collecti on in Dig DC Seng Luangrath’s oral histo ry in Dig DC Transgender Histories of D. C. in Dig DC.

Robert LaRose speaks with Emily Wagner about her extensive collection of written family history and photographs dating back to the mid-19th century, as well as how to preserve important family memories.

Jenny chats with The Labs' own Allie Genia about how they make library programs more accessible, navigating an invisible disability, and dream projects they'd love to do with The Labs.

Part 1 in a series of conversations on a just D.C., featuring fellows from the Public Interest Design Lab, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut and the DC Public Library. This episode pairs fellow Josef Palermo, an artist, producer, and arts organizer, with guest experts Bryan C. Lee, Architect and Design Justice Advocate, and the Founder/Director of Colloqate Design in New Orleans, and Dr. R...

Author and founder of YouNeek Studios discusses his comic book series, Afrofuturism and the blockbuster hit Black Panther. This episode originally aired in March 2018.

In this episode of Secret Passage, we celebrate the mystery, horror, and suspense of spooky stories. Listeners will be on the edge of their seats as theatrical retellings of a monster story, a classic English folktale, and the urban legend the Babysitter come to life.

Joanna & Amanda discuss the first novel in the VillanElle trilogy by Luke Jennings, touching on the realities of the female assassin and remark on the LGBTQ+ lens that is prominent in the Killing Eve TV series (based on the books) and how that escalates the narrative.

Introduction to Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Projec t  Interview with Edith Crutchfiel d, Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project  Interview with Reverend Irene Pierc e, Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project  Interview with Deacon Clarence Haywoo d, Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Or...

Secret Passage is your podcast portal to stories and storytelling from around the world. Episodes feature reader’s theatre performances that are sure to delight listeners, including children of all ages and their families. In this episode, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with oral storytelling from Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba.

Jenny learns about the new DC Office for the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing (ODBH) from activists Brianne Berger and Robb Dooling in honor of the International Week of the Deaf, taking place September 20-26, 2021.

Joanna & Amanda discuss NVK by Temple Drake.

Labs Library Associate Olubunmi Bakare speaks with Adult Education Specialist Toni White-Richardson about growing up in Washington, DC and her life's mission.

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Lisa and Laura talk about how the People's Archive preserves and amplifies local stories. In this episode, they explore the Washingtoniana periodicals collections and celebrate Washington City Paper’s 40th birthday with a look back at DC in the 1980s.

As part of a month-long celebration of the ADA, Jenny chats with co-creator of the Oscar-nominated Documentary "Crip Camp," Jim LeBrecht, along with activist and author Judy Heumann.

Joanna & Amanda discuss George Orwell's Animal Farm, discuss Putin's attempts to reunify the Soviet Union, the influence Russian Lit can have in ones life.

Click here for more information about the 2021 OutWrite Festival . Click here to read  the poems Marlena shared in their original format

In this very special episode of NINTH & G, Ryan Williams speaks with DC Public Library Teen Coordinator Joanna Harris and Mellanie Lassiter of PEPCO about the second annual KNOW YOUR POWER civic engagement arts contest for Teens with Siobhan O’Brien, a 2020 Know Your Power winner.