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Did you know that June is both Black Music Month and Audiobook Month?

Yep…it is.

So you’ll have the rest of the month (and beyond, of course) to celebrate the artistry of African American music in all its forms.  In honor of Black Music Month, I’ll provide a link to a special music series later this month.

Till then, please visit AudioFileMagazine (click below)

for more details about the magical draw of audiobooks.  And you’re invited to sample my Word Warrior audiobook, narrated by the multi-award-winning “Golden Voice” of Robin Miles.

The Word Warrior audiobook is available at www.downpour.com/word-warrior

So enjoy exploring the world of audiobooks and their ability to aurally take you to lands near and far or introduce you to fascinating known and unknown personalities.

Oh…but if you still only love books in paperback form, click here       to snag a copy Word Warrior and all University of Illinois Press publications at 40% discount sale – now through June 14^th.  

Biography in all its forms allows readers, listeners or viewers to dive into and be amazed by the public and personal lives of a wide range of personalities. So I’m happy that as a member of a group known as the Biographers International Organization (BIO), I’ve been able to interview authors who have written biographies about some fascinating men and women.

To hear one such interview – a conversation with Ray Anthony Shepard,

author of Now or Never: 54^thMassachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery –

click on the following  BIO podcast link,  https://biographersinternational.org/podcast/podcast-episode-8-ray-anthony-shepard/

And to find out more about BIO, click here.

Sunday, March 24th is the day!  For a stimulating and hopefully inspiring afternoon discussion, come to DC’s Woodridge Neighborhood Library on Rhode Island Avenue, NE  at 3:00pm.

Hope to see you there for good conversation and  information about a writer who collaborated with the likes of Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Muhammad Ali and Chicago’s first Black Mayor, Harold Washington !

How do you “walk in somebody else’s shoes and not let your foot stretch the leather”? 

If you’re award winning audiobook narrator Robin Miles, you do it with humility – and with a love born of a life-long fascination with the music of language and with reading.

So I urge you to use the link below to listen to AudioFile Magazine’s interview with Robin. And I feel blessed that I had the opportunity to work with her.  Click here to sample Robin’s rendering of my audiobook, Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom.

And to hear AudioFile’s interview with Robin Miles as she talks about her background and her insights on the world of audio storytelling, click here.

Enjoy!

Are you ready to be inspired!

Then please join me on Saturday, February 23, 2019, for a stimulating afternoon of discussion and good vibes at the stunning and newly renovated Cleveland Park Library in Washington, DC.

We’ll explore my book,

Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom,

a biography of a pioneering African American writer (for radio, television and print), who dramatically documented pivotal moments during the 20^th Century.

Chicagoan Richard Durham also collaborated with notable personalities as varied as writers Langston Hughes, Louis “Studs” Terkel and Toni Morrison, boxing great Muhammad Ali and Mayor Harold Washington.   To hear an excerpt from the book, click here. 

So prepare to be amazed and inspired by Durham’s fascinating creative journey, at 2:00pm at the Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008.

Hope to see you there!