Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
James Baldwin’s semiautobiographical first novel was published in 1953 to high acclaim. Diane and a panel talk about this American classic, which uses as a frame the spiritual and moral awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes during a Saturday night service in a Harlem storefront church.
Guests
- E. Ethelbert Miller Poet; director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, Board Chair of the Institute for Policy Study. And author of the forthcoming book "On Saturdays I Santana With You."
- Marita Golden Novelist and president of the Hurston/Wright Foundation
- Derrick Harkins 19th Street Baptist Church
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