Writers conference. It is such a pleasure to be today. This afternoon, in conversation with Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most book is the new black woman herself has boundaries heals every day. She cofounder and present president emerita of the Hurston Wright foundation and teaches workshops and is a literary consult tim Patricia Spears Jones is an arkansas born and raised playwright cultural and author of the beloved community
Good afternoon. How is everyone . I know we are a bit happier and brighter to be in this of Medgar Evers College at the National Writers conference. It is such a pleasure to be today. This afternoon, in conversation with Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most book is the new black woman herself has boundaries heals every day. She cofounder and present president emerita of the Hurston Wright foundation and teaches workshops and is a l
With Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most book is the new black woman herself has boundaries heals every day. She cofounder and present president emerita of the Hurston Wright foundation and teaches workshops and is a literary consult tim Patricia Spears Jones is an arkansas born and raised playwright cultural and author of the beloved community and other collections of poetry. Her work is widely anthologized raised and she teaches
Writers conference. It is such a pleasure to be today. This afternoon, in conversation with Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most book is the new black woman herself has boundaries heals every day. She cofounder and present president emerita of the Hurston Wright foundation and teaches workshops and is a literary consult tim Patricia Spears Jones is an arkansas born and raised playwright cultural and author of the beloved community
Jjj jjj Arianna Bennett welcome to face the state, im Arianna Bennett thank you for joining us. Well theres no doubt the Elderly Population in the United States is growing. Thats a mix of longer Life Expectancy and a generation of aging baby boomers. Now when that happens it puts a strain on social services meant to help the elderly but it also means a bigger portion of our population in retirement and living alone. Now mary brock the executive director of seniors in service is here to talk about the ways to engage and help the seniors here locally. Mary, thank you so much for coming on the show. Mary brock and thank you for having me. Bennett okay, so first off just to get us started, tell me about seniors in service. Brock okay, profit agency. Weve got three programs that we run through our organization. The first is the Senior Companion Program. That is where we have senior volunteers that are 55 and over and they visit seniors that are living independently in the community. And its