The Tara Lake Show

Thanks so much for returning for another episode of the Tara Lake Show.

This week’s episode provides an introduction to, and the first installment of, a three part series on the life and work of Frances E.W. Harper — poet, author, orator, and visionary of the 19th Century who lived from 1825 to 1911. Frances E.W. Harper was a trailblazer in the anti-slavery movement and in Civil Rights and Social Justice Movements for African Americans and Women in the United States — distinguishing herself in the temperance, African American suffrage, and Women’s Suffrage movements. This episode celebrates Frances E.W. Harper’s poetry, considers Harper’s work in the context of a lineage of African American women in working in Freedom Movements in the United States, and takes a look at the highlighting of these women in recent visibility efforts.

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Thank you for listening to the second installment in this eight-episode series! Today I”m honored to share with you my December 2020 interview with the inspiring and immensely talented Kentucky-based artist T.D. Anderson. We discussed Anderson’s poignant two-panel painting, Pietа: “Woman, Behold Your Son; Behold Your Mother”, which, together with Anderson’s sermonic essays, explores the courage and grief of Mamie Till Mobley. Mobley was the mother of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old, African American boy from Chicago who was lynched in Money, Mississippi in 1955 and became a galvanizing symbol in the Civil Rights Movement. July 24, 2021 would have been Emmett Till’s 80th birthday. Listeners can view Anderson’s painting at TDAndersonArt.com, and visit her blog at Soulascriptura.com

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