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Hopeton Hay Podcasts is the founder, producer, and host of Diverse Voices Book Review (formerly known as KAZI Book Review) which features interviews with a wide range of culturally diverse authors of recently published fiction and nonfiction, and Economic Perspectives, an…
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Episode 398: Sheryl Lister on Sisterhood, Family, and Healing (opens the original)
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Diverse Voices Book Review contributor Amanda Moore interviewed Sheryl Lister , the author of All My Sisters and Me . In her novel, four women explore the dynamics of sisterhood, love and family, while learning more about themselves along the way. Sheryl Lister is a multi-award winning author and has enjoyed reading and writing for as long as she can remember. She is a former pediatric occupational therapist with over twenty years of experience and often says she “played” for a living. Follow Sh
Episode 399: Langston Hughes, Democracy, and the Meaning of My America (opens the original)
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In this episode of Diverse Voices Book Review, host Hopeton Hay welcomes back Randal Maurice Jelks for a powerful conversation about My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy . Their discussion explores Hughes not only as a beloved poet of the Harlem Renaissance, but also as a deeply political writer whose essays, speeches, travels, and commitments to working-class struggle still speak urgently to questions of race, democracy, justice, and belonging today. Jelks reflects on Hughes’s global vision
Episode 397: Wit, Tenderness, and Displacement: Inside Hasan Dudar’s Novel Carryout (opens the original)
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In this episode of Diverse Voices Book Review, contributor Tayyba Kanwal interviews Hasan Dudar, author of Carryout. Carryout is a collection of linked short stories rooted in the Arab diaspora in Toledo, Ohio. In this conversation, Tayyba speaks with Hasan about how these vivid, intimate stories about an immigrant family from Palestine and Lebanon brim with humor, wit and tenderness, even as they grapple with the disorientation of displacement. They travel across generations, intrigued by how a
Episode 396: Their Stories, Our Stories: Dr. Rosalee Martin Shares the Legacy of Huston-Tillotson University (opens the original)
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In this episode of Diverse Voices Book Review , host Hopeton Hay speaks with Dr. Rosalee Martin about her book Their Stories, Our Stories: Four Presidents of Huston-Tillotson University . Drawing on her 50 years as a professor at Huston-Tillotson University, Dr. Martin reflects on the leadership, struggles, resilience, and enduring importance of HBCUs. The conversation highlights the presidents she served under from 1972 to 2023, the role of faculty and alumni, the challenges of funding and accr
Episode 395: A Woman on the Run: Yu-Mei Balasingamchow’s Names Have Been Changed (opens the original)
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Diverse Voices Book Review contributor Kimberly Lau interviews Yu-Mei Balasingamchow about her debut novel, Names Have Been Changed . Their conversation explores Ophir, a Singaporean woman who commits a crime, flees the country, and spends the next decade moving through Tokyo, London, Colorado, and unnamed U.S. locations under changing identities. Lau and Balasingamchow discuss the novel’s themes of diaspora, survival, language, home, and the life-changing act of telling one’s story aloud. Born
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