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2022 Spring Read

  • Join the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club for a live, on-air discussion of the books in this spring’s read Graphic Novels – Worth a Thousand Words. Sunday, May 1, 2022, 6:00 p.m.
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    Graphic Novels – Worth a Thousand Words
    Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas. Believe it or not, we’re just about to the end of our Spring 2022 Series “Graphic Novels: Worth a Thousand Words.” Book Leaders and Radio Readers will be getting together for a live on-air discussion on Sunday, May 1, at 6pm. Please join us! You can count on lively and thoughtful conversation—and thousands of words—about Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis; Nora Krug’s Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home; and John Lewis and Andrew Aydin’s March.
  • It was the Hotel Albert in Selma, Alabama, at which Martin Luther King, Jr. attempted to register, an act which tested author and activist John Lewis’ commitment to nonviolence.
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    Moving Pictures
    This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The graphic history book is “March” by John Lewis, in a three-book package, as a trilogy.
  • Leonard Reed was instrumental in getting Joe Louis into the PGA and for enjoying many games of golf as well as enduring many pranks inaugurated by “The Champ.”
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    Interview with Lenard Reed on the Champ - Pranksters and Passing
    Mike Strong with an interview of Leonard Reed, about a time when it was illegal for blacks and whites to be in the same taxi. Reed’s friend, black heavyweight champ Joe Louis used this fact to play a joke on Reed in New Orleans. This oral history is told by Leonard Reed and recorded in person by Nicole English and me.
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    New Orleans. Can’t Ride Together
    This is Mike Strong in Hays, KS for HPPR. The book I'm reviewing is March, a graphic history by John Lewis that's a three-book trilogy.
  • Virginia Cavaliers were royalist supporters in the Royal Colony of Virginia. An anonymous pamphlet published in London in 1649 gives a glowing account of Virginia, describing it as a land where "there is nothing wanting," a land of 15,000 English and 300 negro slaves, 20,000 cattle, many kinds of wild animals. Those who responded to the invitation to resettle were the ancestors of George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, and of many others of the First Families of Virginia.
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    CRT: School and Comfort Lies – An Old Battle Continues
    This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The graphic history book is “March” by John Lewis, in a three-book package, as a trilogy. The inspiration to create John Lewis’ “March” as a graphic book trilogy was a 1957 comic book about Martin Luther King. That same year, 1957, the state of Virginia published a work they had commissioned in 1950, a history of Virginia, a textbook to be used in the Virginia schools. Among its topics is slavery in Virginia.
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    493 OUT OF 5,077?
    Melodie Graves from Amarillo, Texas, for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. Today we continue looking at the March trilogy, which is a three-part graphic novel written about the discrimination and oppression experienced by the great John Lewis.
  • Book One of March begins with a group of African Americans marching across a bridge.
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    Journey from the Bridge
    The March trilogy, written as a three-part graphic novel, is the story of discrimination and oppression as experienced by the great John Lewis. John Lewis was a Civil Rights advocate since he was young. He fought for equal rights for everyone until the day of his death in 2020. His accomplishments will continue to live on even after his death, and this trilogy is a way to make sure his story and legacy continues.
  • An illustration of the historic battle at the Alamo from Brief History of Texas from its Earliest Settlement to Which is Appended the Constitution of the State by D. W. C. Baker, 1873.
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    We Learn Best
    This is Nicole English coming to you from the Sociology Department at Fort Hays State University for HPPR's Book-Bytes. This is a discussion of the graphic novel, March by the author, civil rights leader, John Lewis along with Andrew Ayden and illustrator Nate Powell.
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    Defining Moments in Time
    Hello, Radio Readers; this is Kim Perez, and I am coming to you from Hays with a Book Byte for HPPR. The discussion this month centers around the three-book series, March, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. This series tell the story of critical moments of activism during the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of one person who participated in them, Congressman John Lewis.
  • Perhaps it should make one uncomfortable. The power of Spiegelman’s graphic novel is that it is written by a Jew, told by a Jew, and in a vernacular that carries the weight and character of a lived experience.
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    Opportunity Springs From Discomfort
    This is Leslie VonHolten on the High Plains of Kansas with another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte.What a coincidence. As we Radio Readers are exploring graphic novels this season, Maus by Art Spiegelman made the news. If you haven’t read it yet, Maus—spelled M-A-U-S—is the true story of Spiegelman’s parents during the Nazi Holocaust. His father, Vladek, was a survivor in every way: by initiative and skill, by his strength of character, and by luck. He is also a master storyteller.
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