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Lawyer Rabia Chaudry is an accomplished advocate who helped clear Adnan Sayed of murder charges. But for decades she struggled with her weight, pushing against loving but misguided messages from her Pakistani family. We discuss her delightful memoir 'Fatty Fatty Boom Boom.'
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We’ll go On the Record with April Ryan, to hear about her new book Black Women Will Save the World. For most of the decades Ryan has covered presidents, no other Black women were in the press room. She writes about pressures on Black women … and their superpowers.
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Journalist Baynard Woods descends from two families, the Baynards and the Woodses, who once enslaved hundreds of Black people. His new memoir, Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness, traces how he came to realize his responsibility for the system of privileges they set up.
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Why do so many of us struggle to make friends as adults? Psychologist Marisa Franco says it’s shaped by how secure we feel, how often we reach out to start connections, and how faithfully we show up to BE a friend. Her new book is Platonic.
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What D. Watkins learned on the streets of East Baltimore, in addition to how to hustle, was that a real man must always mask his true feelings. That’s a lie, Watkins says in his latest memoir, Black Boy Smile. We hear Watkins take on the truth behind the lies.
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In the young adult novel, “Kings of B’more,” two queer Black teens embark on an epic adventure across the city, designed to seal their friendship for life. We ask author R. Eric Thomas about celebrating platonic love and tapping into the anxieties of adolescence.
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Jim Burger has photographed Baltimore for decades. His book “What’s Not to Like: Words and Pictures of a Charmed Life” is part memoir, part time capsule … and part love letter to a city whose streets and people he adores. We get a preview.
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Lawrence Jackson grew up in West Baltimore … and after decades teaching at universities elsewhere, came back to the city as a “distinguished professor” at Johns Hopkins. Shelter, his collection of multi-layered essays, traces history, geography and relationships in Baltimore.
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We’ll go On the Record with R. Eric Thomas, whose latest book, “Kings of B’more,” follows two queer Black teens as they share one last hurrah before their impending separation. It’s a celebration of the love and affection shared between friends.
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35-year-old Alex is coping with unsettled issues from the lover who just left her--not to mention one from years earlier … when she learns her offbeat mother has died. And that’s just the start of Jen Michalski’s latest novel--which, in fact, is pretty funny.