DC Public Library Podcast

In this episode of NINTH & G, DC Public Library Adult Services Coordinator, David Quick speaks with an outgoing Urban Libraries Council President and CEO, Susan Benton and DC Public Library Executive Director, Richard Reyes-Gavilan.

The music used in the introduction is titled High Definition (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats

Deborah and Dr. Dea Boster discuss the themes from the historian's book African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

Black Studies Collection at The People’s Archive

Black Studies digital resources

Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider by Charles Person, with Richard Rooker

The Griots' cookbook : rare and well-done by Alice McGill, Mary Carter Smith & Elmira Washington

Where is My Place? Experimental Arts Community Building and Re-Building in Washington, D.C. in Dig DC

Pastor Angeloyd Fenrick interview in the Center for Inspired Teaching ‘Real World History’ Oral History Project in Dig DC

April 28, 1968 recording of the Friday Morning Music Club in Dig DC

Linda Crichlow White, President of the DC Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS), joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss the origin of AAHGS and shares tips for those who are beginning their genealogical research. This episode originally aired in February of 2020 on Full Service Radio.

Music in this episode is adapted from DCPL's American Song database. A complete list of the library's music streaming databases can be found here.

On this month's episode of All Things Local, guest Lamont Carey discusses his life growing up in Washington, being incarcerated as a juvenile and re-entering society as an adult. We also discuss his life's work. NOTE: This episode originally aired on February 20, 2018 on DCPL Radio in partnership with Full Service Radio.

Tora and Tara will focus on STEM in storytelling, including its seeming absence in pourquoi tales and STEM teachings in Native American stories.

Part 2 in a series of conversations on a just D.C., featuring fellows from the Public Interest Design Lab, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut and the DC Public Library. This episode pairs two DC based fellows—Jenn Low, an integrative designer, educator and landscape architect, and Anna McCorvey, an architect and city planner, with guest expert Rosten Woo, a designer, writer and educator living in Los Angeles.

Check out a copy of The Washington Century

Check out a copy of Chocolate City

Washington Community Video Center Collection in Dig DC

Seng Luangrath’s oral history in Dig DC

Transgender Histories of D.C. in Dig DC.