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    [Podcast] Writing Home: American Voices From The Caribbean
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Aug 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    [Podcast] Writing Home: American Voices From The Caribbean

    Small Axe editorial committee member Tami Navarro and archipelagos editor Kaiama L. Glover co-host Writing Home, a weekly podcast about t...
    Lessons From Plants
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jul 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    Lessons From Plants

    "I cut it back ... maybe too much ... but it will grow back. And if it doesn't... I'll just plant another." -- Mom on her avocado/pear tr...
    Excerpt: "A Little Patch of Something"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Excerpt: "A Little Patch of Something"

    By Imani Perry Excerpted from The Paris Review I’m growing microgreens. Every couple of weeks they are sufficiently lush to be snipped an...
    Duets: Stevie Wonder + Brian McKnight
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Duets: Stevie Wonder + Brian McKnight

    In 2010, on 94.7 The Wave in Los Angeles, Stevie Wonder and Brian McKnight had a jam session where they performed several of Stevland's s...
    Spring Reading: "The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • May 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Spring Reading: "The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom

    #JumpAtTheSuns #Memoir #NarrativeNonfiction #NewOrleans
    Alvin Ailey's "Revelations"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Mar 31, 2020
    • 0 min

    Alvin Ailey's "Revelations"

    Recipe + Ritual: Haitian Soup Joumou
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Dec 29, 2019
    • 1 min

    Recipe + Ritual: Haitian Soup Joumou

    Soup Joumou, also known as the Haitian Independence Soup, is a hearty pumpkin (or squash) soup that is traditionally served on January 1...
    The Ways We Mother
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Dec 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    The Ways We Mother

    #JumpAtTheSuns #Mothering
    A Celebration of Parang: The Indigenous Sounds of Trinidad & Tobago
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Dec 1, 2019
    • 0 min

    A Celebration of Parang: The Indigenous Sounds of Trinidad & Tobago

    Lucille Clifton Reads: "Won't You Celebrate With Me?"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Nov 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    Lucille Clifton Reads: "Won't You Celebrate With Me?"

    [Lucille begins at the :26 mark] won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both...
    Before.
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Sep 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    Before.

    The first text I dashed off to my mom and brother right before I walked in to the Goombay Festival for Junkanoo was "I am Bahamian now." ...
    Toni Morrison's Eulogy for James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His Language
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Aug 7, 2019
    • 5 min

    Toni Morrison's Eulogy for James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His Language

    Jimmy, there is too much to think about you, and too much to feel. The difficulty is your life refuses summation - it always did - and in...
    Summer Reading: "The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jun 23, 2019
    • 0 min

    Summer Reading: "The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution"

    Reading Toni Morrison’s 1973 Summer Essay “Cooking Out”
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jun 6, 2019
    • 3 min

    Reading Toni Morrison’s 1973 Summer Essay “Cooking Out”

    Forty-six years ago, Toni Morrison wrote an essay about cooking out for the 1973 Summer Reading issue. By TONI MORRISON Uncle Green was l...
    Harriet Tubman and the Maroon Tradition
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • May 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    Harriet Tubman and the Maroon Tradition

    Iyelli Ichile and Jared Ball discuss Harriet Tubman's (née Araminta "Minty" Ross) place in the Maroon/Marronage tradition.
    From Audre Lorde's "A Litany for Survival No. 42"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Feb 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    From Audre Lorde's "A Litany for Survival No. 42"

    For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indul...
    [Excerpt] Pole:"It took me 10 years to learn how to write about my father, about his life and death"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Dec 31, 2018
    • 2 min

    [Excerpt] Pole:"It took me 10 years to learn how to write about my father, about his life and death"

    My thoughts: I was once on the receiving end of this term when my Grandmother passed. After being taught its meaning, it created a space ...
    Excerpt: The Sanctum of a Bloom
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Nov 27, 2018
    • 2 min

    Excerpt: The Sanctum of a Bloom

    By Rosalind Bentley for Southern Foodways Alliance A couple of years ago, my mother and I were making our way through the Whole Foods pro...
    Cassava From My Mother's Garden: "Our ancestors had to tap into the rhythm of the plants …"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Nov 26, 2018
    • 1 min

    Cassava From My Mother's Garden: "Our ancestors had to tap into the rhythm of the plants …"

    I am always intrigued by mom's growing of Cassava, knowing what I know about the rules surrounding its harvest and consumption. Every yea...
    Excerpt: Time, and Other Matters
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Aug 14, 2018
    • 1 min

    Excerpt: Time, and Other Matters

    A gorgeous excerpt from John Edgar Wideman's "Art of Story," in The New Yorker "Stories are graves. Empty. Nothing there. All living and ...
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