Oral history
Freedom on the Border
Catherine Fosl, Tracy E. K'Meyer
Kentuckians’ oral histories illuminate the work of challenging segregation across the state.
Reading list
Lyric Podcast Station
Books to accompany discussions of oral history, Black cultural memory, and the arts.
Read Barracoon alongside Freedom on the Border and listen for the relationship between interviewer and narrator. The program page leads to the Lyric’s studio. Add episode links as authorized recordings become available.
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Recommended reading
Oral history
Barracoon
Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston records Cudjo Lewis’s account of captivity, the Atlantic crossing, and life in Africatown.
History
How the Word Is Passed
Clint Smith
Visits to historic sites and memorials ask how public institutions tell the story of American slavery.
Memoir
Nina Simone's Gum
Warren Ellis
A small object saved after a Nina Simone performance becomes a meditation on musical memory.