Podcast Tell Me Your Story

A podcast about the Harlem Renaissance, African American Literature and more. The Harlem Renaissance is considered the first heyday of African American art and culture. How did this period come about and what influence did it have on later writers like Baldwin in the following heyday of the 1960s?

Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort has created a podcast about the classics and highlights of African-American literature in connection with the Tell Me Your Story exhibition in collaboration with Schwob, NRC and the Eemland Library. Michel Krielaars, NRC books chief, talks with NRC editor Toef Jaeger, writer/journalist Dominique van Varsseveld and art historian and curator of Tell Me Your Story Rob Perrée about the literary classics of African-American literature.

Listen to the podcast now and visit the Tell Me Your Story exhibition, on view through August 30 at Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort.

Reading list for more unjustly forgotten classics:
Schwob: www.schwob.nl/
Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List:
www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg

Or discover the writers in this podcast and their contemporaries:
Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, William Kelley, Ann Petry, Colson Whitehead, Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Angie Thomas, Paul Beatty.