Comedian David Alan Grier talks about Barack Like Me: The Chocolate Covered Truth, his new book that uses the election of President Obama as jumping off point for his own discursive musings of his life and the African American experience. Original Air Date: 11/2/09 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/David-Alan-Grier-Chocolate-Covered-Truth-Compressed.mp3]
Author Michael Gray talks about his new biography of the Georgia-born blues legend, Blind Willie McTell, who had his first recordings for Victor Records in 1927 right here in Atlanta. The book is titled, Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes – In Search of Blind Willie McTell. Original Air Date: 10/27/09 Part 1[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/CWDL-Michael_Gray_Blind_Willie_McTell_Part_1.mp3] Part 2[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/CWDL-Michael_Gray_Blind_Willie_McTell_Part_2.mp3]
Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, talks to host David Lewis about his secret tapes of conversations with President Clinton that serve as an oral diary of the notoriously public Clinton presidency. Original Air Date: 10/21/09 Part 1[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/CWDL-Taylor_Branch_The_Clinton_Tapes_Part_1.mp3] Part 2[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/CWDL-Taylor_Branch_The_Clinton_Tapes_Part_2.mp3]
David speaks with one-time drug kingpin Kevin Pappas talks about his book Godfather of Night: A Greek Mafia Father, a Drug Runner Son, and an Unexpected Shot at Redemption. Pappas, born Kevin Cunningham, was just another kid from the wrong side of the tracks in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Then, he learned as a teenager, that […]
The World Cup is intended to establish South Africa on the world’s stage. And yet, for all its ambitions, South Africa (along with much of sub-Saharan Africa) continues to struggle with a truly horrific public health crisis. South African public health expert Kerry Cullinan talks about the ongoing AIDS epidemic in South Africa – what […]
Judy Shepard is the mother of Mathew Shepard, the young, gay man who was tortured and murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998 and became an overnight martyr and standard-bearer for gay rights activists. His case brought immediate and national attention to the issue of hate crimes. Judy Shepard has written a book about her son, […]
Kurt Andersen has been a Time Magazine writer, the co-founder of Spy, the editor of New York, a writer at The New Yorker and the host of “Studio 360”. He’s also a successful novelist. In this interview he talks about his new work of non-fiction, Reset, which looks at the possibility of the United States […]
Gregory Johnsen is an expert on Yemen. Yemen — the poor neighbor of Saudi Arabia — is an often overlooked front in the war on terror but it poses a unique opportunity to experiment with different strategies and approaches. Yemen has been where recent terrorist efforts aimed at the US have originated from, e.g. the […]
Long-time Boston Globe reporter Larry Tye talks about the death and legacy of Ted Kennedy, a figure on which Tye reported frequently throughout his career, and the response of the city of Boston to the death of Kennedy, and to the death of Camelot. Original Air Date: 8/30/09 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/CWDL-Larry_Tye_on_Ted_Kennedy.mp3]
R. Dwayne Betts talks about A Question of Freedom, the remarkable story that tells of his journey from honor roll student to carjacker to prisoner. Betts discusses the way in which one crime can change countless lives, the realization of what it means to be a convicted felon, and the finality felt inside a closed […]