Kamille D. Whittaker
Full Bloom: On the kinship and legacy of a literary union
Alice Walker and the late Valerie Boyd illustrated by Hsiao-Ron Cheng for Atlanta Magazine; words by Anjali Enjeti
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Kamille D. Whittaker
- May 13, 2020
- 1 min
Spring Reading: "The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom
#JumpAtTheSuns #Memoir #NarrativeNonfiction #NewOrleans
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Mar 31, 2020
- 0 min
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...
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Dec 17, 2019
- 1 min
The Ways We Mother
#JumpAtTheSuns #Mothering
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Dec 1, 2019
- 0 min
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...
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."...
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...
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Jun 23, 2019
- 0 min
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...
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.
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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