Featured Speaker
Featured Speaker
National Black Writers Conference Director
Dr. Brenda M. Greene
Featured on Law of the Land
with Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Aired March 12, 2024, Audio
Topics: The Center for Black Literature,
17th National Black Writers Conference
Dr. Brenda M. Greene Featured on
Vantage Point with Dr. Ron Daniels
Institute of the Black World 21st Century
Backstage Stories
Produced by WBAI
Aired December 14, 2023, Audio
Topics: The Center for Black Literature,
17th National Black Writers Conference
Education at the Crossroads
Produced by Bashir McChawi
Aired September 21, 2023, Audio
Topics: Killens Literary Reading, John Oliver Killens, National Black Writers Conference
Edited by Msaidia McLaughlin
Literature’s Underground Railroad w/Arts & Letters Activist Dr. Brenda M. Greene
YouTube | First Things First with
Dominique DiPrima - 8 AM
Aired Sept. 22, 2023, Audio
Topics: Banned Books Center for Black Literature, Literacy,
National Black Writers Conference
CUNY TV’s Black America: Black Literature and What It Means For Our Future
Featuring Dr. Brenda Greene, Founder of the Center for Black Literature at
Medgar Evers College,
in a discussion with program host Carol Jenkins
Trailblazing CUNY Women Past and Present
Original tape date: February 20, 2023. First aired: March 9, 2023
Much Love the Griots, Interviewed by
Sheron Smith (Mother of Yasiin Bey)
Umi Says, Episode 11
WOW Audio Interview with Kadiatou Diallo
On February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo was fired upon with 41 rounds. The four officers who shot him were found not guilty. Dr. Greene interviews Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of Amadou Diallo. They discuss her memoir My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son (One World, 2004), her son, and the impact that the tragic killing had on her family.
WOW Audio Interview with Ahmed Abdullah and Monique Ngozi Nri
Air 10. 8 and 10.15. 2023
An Evening with HONORÉE FANONNE JEFFERS
John Oliver Killens Reading Series
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JAMAL GREENE on #WritersOnWriting with
Dr. Brenda M. Greene
YouTube | #Center4BlackLit
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TALIB KWELI on #WritersOnWriting with
Dr. Brenda M. Greene
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IMANI PERRY at the John Oliver Killens
Reading Series
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MAYOR DAVID N. DINKINS on #WritersOnWriting with
Dr. Brenda M. Greene
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MICHAEL ERIC DYSON on #WritersOnWriting with Dr. Brenda M. Greene
Writers on Writing
This popular radio program engages emerging as well as established writers who discuss their craft, Black literature, and other literary topics. Esteemed guests have included Dr. Cornel West, Dominique Morisseau, Farah Jamine Griffin, jessica CARE moore, Tony Medina, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Mary Helen Washington, Uwem Akpan, and scores more. The “Writers on Writing with Dr. Brenda M. Greene” program airs every Sunday on WNYE 91.5 FM radio, from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m ET.
The program is also archived via Zoom and available via the Center's YouTube channel.