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Revision as of 22:46, 14 February 2018
The Reading Club was a public TV show that was made by Howard University Television, in cooperation with Dunbar Productions and WHUT-TV.[1] The talk show was hosted by former WCBS-TV New York anchor Carol Martin.[1] Eventually, Renee Poussaint would take over as host after "working on a documentary about a meeting between historian John Hope Franklin and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa."[2] The talk show went on for 13 weeks.[3][4] The TV series debuted and aired on WHUT-TV in September of 1999.[3] The series then debuted on WYIN-TV in Indiana on October 6, 1999.[4]
Premise
Allison J. Davis, on of the many executive producers of The Reading Club was inspired by her friends, to create and air a talk show on books.[5] The series focused on serving "the African American community by educating, informing and inspiring individuals to broaden their horizons through more reading."[1] Each episode had different "club members," which were various African American women.[1] In fact, these women were selected from actual book clubs across the U.S. Usually, they would discuss various topics in several books like self-discovery and love.
Availability
Very little is known about it. No video footage or pictures can be found online. The lack of video footage is due to the fact that The Reading Club only aired episodes for a short time. Only 19 half-hour episodes were produced.[6] It is speculated that the series aired reruns until September 30, 2000 when the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch block came out, thus kicking the show to obscurity.
Episodes
# | Book | Host | Status |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Lawrence Graham's Our Kind of People: Inside Americ's Black Upper Class | Carol Martin | Lost |
2 | Pearl Cleage's What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day | Carol Martin | Lost |
3 | Jill Nelson's Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-up Black Woman | Carol Martin | Lost |
4 | Benilde Little's The Itch | Carol Martin | Lost |
5 | Mother and Daughter's Book Club | Carol Martin | Lost |
6 | Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth | Carol Martin | Lost |
7 | Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones | Carol Martin | Lost |
8 | Harriett Cole's How to Be: A Guide to Conscious Living for African American People | Carol Martin | Lost |
9 | Myrlie Evers-Williams' Watch Me Fly | Carol Martin | Lost |
10 | Linnie Frank and Andria Hall's This Far by Faith | Carol Martin | Lost |
11 | Janet McDonald's Project Girl | Carol Martin | Lost |
12 | Iyanla Vanzant's Yesterday, I Cried | Carol Martin | Lost |
13 | N/A ("Reading Club") | Renee Poussaint | Lost |
14 | Diane McKinney's Blues Dancing | Carol Martin or Renee Poussaint | Lost |
15 | Wilson Wesley's The Devil Riding | Renee Poussaint | Lost |
16 | Shay Youngblood's Black Girl in Paris | Renee Poussaint | Lost |
17 | T.D. Jakes' Maximize the Moment: God's Action Plan for Your Life | Renee Poussaint | Lost |
18 | Douglas F. Greer's Blind Ambition | Renee Poussaint | Lost |
19 | Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents | Renee Poussaint | Lost |
External Link
- A schedule page, mentioning The Reading Club. Retrieved 14 Feb '18
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Reading Club, Peabody Awards Collection, 2000049 PST 1 of 1, Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. Retrieved 13 Feb '18
- ↑ The Washington Times article about black history Retrieved 14 Feb'18
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Washington Post article on The Reading Club. Retrieved 14 Feb '18
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Chicago Sun-Times article on The Reading Club. Retrieved 14 Feb '18
- ↑ Black Issues Book Review article on the origin of The Reading Club Retrieved 14 Feb '18
- ↑ TV Guide page with a cast an episode list Retrieved 14 Feb '18