The Tara Lake Podcast

Thank you so much for joining me for this season conclusion of the Tara Lake Show. I appreciate your taking the time to join me on this journey – a special, 8 episode season. As the project closes, I’m thinking about dreams: The ones we have for ourselves, for our families, for our nations and […]

Thank you so much for joining me this week on the Tara Lake show. Today, I’m honored to bring you a special interview that addresses a compelling issue that made America pause and consider our complicated Immigration policy — and forced us ask difficult questions about the impact of race, ethnicity, and centuries of history […]

Thank you for joining me this week for the conclusion of this special series on poet, author, activist, and educator Frances E.W. Harper. Just last week, we marked the 196th anniversary of Frances E. W. Harper, on September 24. As we continue to celebrate her impact as a visionary leader and thinker during this season […]

Welcome back to the Tara Lake show! This is the third installment of my series on Frances E.W. Harper, which celebrates the oratory of the Nineteenth Century Philadelphian and African American poet, author, abolitionist and suffragist. It has been an honor to share this series in recognition of Harper’s amazing work, which spanned decades, crossed […]

Thanks so much for joining me for this week’s episode of the Tara Lake show.Today, as part of this special eight-episode season, I’m excited to share the second installment in my three part series on poet, author, and activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Last week, we learned a bit more about this inspiring pioneer and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Thank you so much for tuning in to for the first of eight episodes in this season of the Tara Lake Show. Today I have a special interview to share. Back in March, the talented and intrepid Emily Ford completed Wisconsin’s 1200-mile Ice Age Trail, and made history in the process. She’s only the first […]

Back in December 2008, the project-based podcast The Tara Lake Show aired with “The Barack Obama Block Party”, Parts 1 & 2. That show was a colorful exploration of the meaning of Obama’s election. The follow-up came a year later – in 2009 – with Prophesying the “Homegrown Soulful Solution Revival”, which celebrated the work […]

One year after the Barack Obama Block Party, the Tara Lake Show returns to tackle some of the year’s biggest topics and chat with young innovators who stepped up to make change in 2009. We discuss a number of topics, including the building of Black Family Genealogies, The Obama Presidency, new ways to support Historically […]