Emma Jackson Ford

  Call during this broadcast and contribute to KBOO's Fall Membership Drive.  Give to KBOO and get a copy of Betty Before X...a powerful middle-grade fictionalized account of the childhood activism of Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's wife, written by their daughter Ilyasah Shaba... Read more

  Patricia Heard Hopson, retired Portland Public Schools librarian discusses favorite books with Emma Jackson Ford.   Read more

  The hosts of Black Book Talk welcome author, lawyer and professor Renee Simms to discuss her new book Meet Behind Mars.  Call (503) 231-8187 to join the conversation and talk about what you've been reading this Summer. Renee Simms is a novelist and lawyer interested in b... Read more

  This month on Black Book Talk we discuss suggested Summer reading. What are the books that shouldn't be missed?  Call in with your picks at (503)231-8187   Read more

  Conversation with local writers about the advantages of being part of a writing group. Co-hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O B Hill and Patricia Welch review works in all genres by well-known and emerging authors. Occasional call-in shows allow audience members to talk directly... Read more

  Our guest for Thursday is Kirby McCurtis, administrator for Multnomah County's North Portland Library.  We will discuss book awards like Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Caldecott Awards. Read more

In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty's house doesn't quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can't shake the feeling that her mother doesn't want her. Church helps those worries fade, if only for a little while. The singing, the preaching, the sp... Read more

  In this previously aired episode of  Black Book Talk the hosts interview Stephen Hanks, author of The Akee Tree. What would compel an African-American man to spend ten years of his life tracing his family tree from the Pacific Northwest back to slavery times in Mississi... Read more

Teen author and blogger Jolie Brownell is committed to helping other young girls boost their confidence. Her book Me Too: Just a Collection of Reasons why You are so Freakin'... contains inspiring short stories, quotes and poems covering four topics: Body acceptance, confid... Read more

Afro-Japanese  author, William Hayashi has written a sci-fi trilogy called Darkside.  Discovery 1 is the first volume I of the three.  It tells the story of  a community of African American scientists who  beat Neil Amstrong to the moon and are there four decades before bei... Read more