Best MoAD Podcasts (2026)

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Notes from MoAD: Episode 8 with DeShawn Dumas and Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen 36:50

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For episode 8 of the Notes from MoAD series, visual artist DeShawn Dumas and curator Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen discuss the fragility and resilience of glass, the terrifying and meditative properties of art and shooting guns, and the qualities and limits of the art institution as community space. In conversation about the creation of his works, Dumas…

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Notes from MoAD: Episode 11 with Sydney Cain and PJ Gubatina Policarpio 57:34

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This is Notes from MoAD: Emerging Artists and Critic Series, dedicated to the Museum of African Diaspora’s 2018-20 Emerging Artist Program. In this episode, visual artist Sydney Cain and curator/organizer PJ Gubatina Policarpio meditate on the vision and process that inspire Cain’s upcoming show "Refutations" at Museum of African Diaspora. Cain, a …

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Notes from MoAD: Episode 9 with Chanell Stone and PJ Gubatina Policarpio 53:48

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This is Notes from MoAD: Emerging Artists and Critic Series, dedicated to the Museum of African Diaspora’s 2018-20 Emerging Artist Program. In this episode, photographer and visual artist Chanell Stone and curator/organizer PJ Gubatina Policarpio revisit "Natura Negra (Black Nature)," Stone’s exhibition at Museum of African Diaspora. Stone walks us…

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PANEL DISCUSSION | Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Voices of the 1965 Voting Rights Fight 1:35:33

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Presented during the 50th anniversary year of the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Bay Area civil rights veterans share their experiences of the historic African American-led struggle. If you liked the film “Selma,” you will enjoy hearing more about the role of youth during this pivotal period of the Civil Rights Movement. This program will f…

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Pearl Cleage in Conversation with Deborah Santana 1:20:49

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Bestselling novelist, award-winning playwright and Oprah Book Club pick’s inspiring memoir of juggling marriage, motherhood and politics as Pearl Cleage worked to become a successful writer and self-fulfilled woman. In this revelatory and deeply personal memoir, Cleage takes readers back to the 1970’s and 1980’s, retracing her struggles to hone her…

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Margaret Wrinkle in Conversation with Marti Paschal 1:35:06

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Author Margaret Wrinkle will read from and discuss her acclaimed new novel Wash, which reexamines American slavery in ways that challenge our contemporary assumptions about race, history, power and healing. Published by Grove Atlantic, Wash recently won the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and has been named a Wall Street Jour…

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Keenan Norris in Conversation with Crystal Sykes 1:01:21

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Listen to a conversation about race, class and geography with Keenan Norris and Crystal Sykes. Winner of the 2012 James D. Houston Award, Keenan Norris’s first novel is a beautiful, gritty, coming-of-age tale about two young African Americans in the San Bernardino Valley—a story of exceptional power, lyricism, and depth. Erycha and Touissant live o…

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Aminatta Forna in Conversation with Sarah Ladipo Manyika 1:00:50

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From human rights in Africa to the importance of education for girls and boys and now the impact of war and the silence that follows in Croatia; hear from one of contemporary Africa's important and perceptive chroniclers as she joins us to discuss her newest novel, The Hired Man, set in a Croatian town that is still recovering from the indelible ef…

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ZZ Packer and Sarah Ladipo Manyika In Conversation 1:05:59

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Acclaimed author ZZ Packer has been the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere won the Commonwealth First Fiction Award and an ALEX award, and was selected for the Today Show Book Club by John Updike. She is currently at work on a novel, Thous…

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Chinelo Okparanta in conversation with Sarah Ladipo Manyika 46:36

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Join us for an afternoon of reading and conversation with Chinelo Okparanta and Sarah Ladipo Manyika co-presented by Museum of the African Diaspora and Litquake.Chinelo Okparanta will read from her highly acclaimed collection of short stories Happiness, Like Water. Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Chinelo Okparanta earned her B.Sc. from the Pennsylv…

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Chinua Achebe Roundtable: Discussion of the Life and Legacy of Chinua Achebe 1:23:07

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Widely regarded as the father of modern African literature in English, Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. A prolific writer, Achebe authored several works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His debut and most well known novel, Things Fall Apart, was first published in 1958 and has since sold over 12 million copies internationally. He passe…