• Anna Thomas -- Film screenwriting and film producing and writer.
    Feb 1 2021

    Anna Thomas is known for her film screenwriting and film producing and writer. But for us foodies she is known as the creator of a culinary style that continues to grow today. Her new culinary masterpiece  

    Book: Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore is not on film but in the kitchen. 

    And I can say I own her first cookbook, The Vegetarian Epicure since 1972 when I went to hospitality school.

    Thomas lives in Ojai, California where she continues to write screenplays and other fiction. She also teaches at the American Film Institute as a lecturer.

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    23 mins
  • Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs -Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home
    Feb 1 2021

    Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs is a historian, professor, author and social commentator. 

    A graduate of Florida A&M University (B.A., History) and Florida State University, she has taught courses in American, African American, oral history, and public history at Florida A&M University, Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia, and John Tyler Community College, in Chester, Virginia

    Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida.

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    25 mins
  • Anna Thomas -- Film screenwriting and film producing and writer.
    Feb 1 2021

    Anna Thomas is known for her film screenwriting and film producing and writer.

    But for us foodies she is known as the creator of a culinary style that continues to grow today. Her new culinary masterpiece  

    Book: Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore is not on film but in the kitchen. 

    And I can say I own her first cookbook, The Vegetarian Epicure since 1972 when I went to hospitality school. Thomas lives in Ojai, California where she continues to write screenplays and other fiction. She also teaches at the American Film Institute as a lecturer

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    23 mins
  • Crystal M Fleming -- author, public intellectual and expert on white supremacy and global racism
    Mar 24 2019

    Crystal Marie Fleming, Ph.D. is an author, public intellectual and expert on white supremacy and global racism. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University with affiliations in the Department of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Fleming is the author of two books: the critically-acclaimed How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide and Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France. Additionally, her scholarship appears in journals such as The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Poetics, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race and Mindfulness.

    At Stony Brook, Dr. Fleming teaches undergraduate courses and doctoral seminars on social theory, race/ethnicity and qualitative methods. She is the faculty advisor to the Black Graduate Student Organization and has also been the faculty advisor to the Black Women's Association.

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    20 mins
  • Etan Thomas -- “The Activist Athlete.”
    Mar 3 2019

    Etan Thomas is More Than An Athlete, he’s redefined himself “The Activist Athlete.” Thomas defies the stereotype of the apolitical athlete, planting his roots in his formidable literary career, passion for mentoring and civic engagement.
    Born in Harlem, New York and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Thomas’ childhood was surrounded by books on the civil rights movement, politics and the 1960′s. He was greatly influenced by his mother, Deborah Thomas, a schoolteacher, who instilled in her two sons to think critically and use their platform to make a difference. Etan Thomas has made his mark far beyond the boundaries of his 11 years in the NBA.
    His latest work, We Matter “Athletes And Activism” was released March 6th 2018, Thomas has amassed an amazing collection of interviews intertwined with the heartfelt commentary of his own to create a masterpiece. You’ll read the voices of athletes, activists, media personalities, scholars, and the family of victims of police brutality. We Matter was listed as one of the top ten best activism books of all time by Book Authority. And tied for best non-fiction for 2018 by the African-American Literary Awards (AALAS)

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    24 mins
  • Author Mary Jo McConahay --- The Tango War
    Feb 17 2019

    Born in Chicago, Mary Jo McConahay is an award-winning reporter who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. She has traveled in seventy countries and has been fascinated by the history of World War II since childhood, when she listened to the stories of her father, a veteran U.S. Navy officer. A graduate of the University of California in Berkeley, she covers Latin America as an independent journalist. Coming Sept. 18: The Tango War, The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America during World War II Her previous books include Maya Roads, One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest and Ricochet, Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship Under Fire. She lives in San Francisco.Maya Roads earned the Grand Award, Society of American Travel Writers; International Book Awards Winner in three categories -- Autobiography/Memoir, Best New Nonfiction, Best Travel Essay Book; the Independent Publishers' Award Gold -- Best Travel Essay Book; National Geographic Traveler Book of the Month; Northern California Book Awards, Best Creative Nonfiction. For Maya Roads and other travel writing, McConahay was named Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year, the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in the genre. Ricochet earned a Global Ebook Award for Autobiography/Memoir

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    25 mins
  • Peter Biskind -- Author of “The Sky Is Falling
    Feb 10 2019

    Peter Biskind is an American cultural critic, film historian, journalist, and former executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996.[1][2][2] He wrote several books depicting life in Hollywood, including Seeing Is Believing, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Down and Dirty Pictures, and Gods and Monsters, some of which were bestsellers.[citation needed] In 2010 he published a biography of director and actor Warren Beatty, entitled Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America.

    Biskind is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.[2] His work has appeared in a number of publications that include Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Paris Match, The Nation, The New York Times, The Times (London), and the Los Angeles Times, as well as in film journals such as Sight and Sound and Film Quarterly.

    He served as the editor-in-chief of American Film from 1981 to 1986.
    Biskind's books have been translated into more than thirty different languages.

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    23 mins
  • Meri-Jane Rochelson
    Feb 9 2019

    This biography tells the story of Eli G. Rochelson, MD (1907-1984), in his own words and through exhaustive research in personal and public archives. At its core is an interview Eli did with his son, Burt Rochelson, in the mid-1970s. Through letters, documents, and photographs saved by Eli and his family in America, his daughter, Meri-Jane, expands the picture of a man whose life and memory spanned two world wars, several migrations, an educational odyssey, the massive upheaval of the Holocaust, and, finally, a strenuous yet ultimately successful effort to restore his professional credentials and identity, as well as reestablish family life.

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    23 mins