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Ashley Bryan: I’m Going To Sing

WUNC | By Dick Gordon
Published July 4, 2013 at 12:25 PM EDT

Dick speaks with Ashley Bryan, best known for his children's books, about the Harlem Renaissance, Black American spirituals, and the power of voice.

Also in this show: the day players used a potato  in the minor leagues, and poet Martin Espada reads a poem about going to a baseball game with his father.

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Dick Gordon
Before coming to North Carolina Public Radio to host The Story, Dick Gordon was host of The Connection, a daily national call-in talk show produced in Boston, from 2001 to 2005. Gordon is well-known in the profession as an experienced, seasoned journalist with an extensive background in both international and domestic reporting. He was a war correspondent and back-up host for the CBC's This Morning, a national current affairs radio program. An award winning journalist, he has also served as a Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television.
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