Atlanta teenager Sylvia Dorsey, at the Trinity Home Foundation Orphanage in Ghana. Her transcontinental voyage is documented in Ras Tre Subira’s film Black to our Roots. (photo courtesy of www.blacktoourroots.com)
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- Filmmaker Ras Tre Subira talks with us about his documentary Black to our Roots. The movie follows a group of African American teenagers on their journey through Ghana, a life-changing odyssey that gives them new perspectives on their own identities.
- Lisa Mathews and Mikel Gehl of the children’s band Milkshake stop by to share some stories and music, and to tell us what it’s really like to star in your own comic book.
- And fiction writer Eric D. Goodman joins the program to share a reading from his novel-in-stories, Tracks, a tale about what happens when the tender words of young romance give way to silent familiarity.
HELPFUL LINKS:
Here’s the website for the film Black to our Roots
Here’s the website for the cultural organization HABESHA
Here’s the website for the children’s band Milkshake
Here’s where you can find an unabridged version of Eric D. Goodman’s story, “The Silences”
Here’s a link to Eric D. Goodman’s blog, Writeful
Check out Eric’s new children’s book, Flightless Goose