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Blog: WRBH and Wendell Pierce Come Together To Help Blind Community

Wendell Pierce invites local blind community to his upcoming play with free tickets           Actor Wendell Pierce is inviting the local blind community to enjoy his upcoming play Brothers from the Bottom with free tickets to the June 27th matinee performance. Pierce generously donated 100 tickets to WRBH 88.3 FM Reading Radio, a New Orleans-based non-profit and national resource for the visually impaired for which he has become a prominent supporter.  Brothers from the Bottom, which is […]

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The Innovators

FEATURED NON-FICTION"Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why […]

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Redeployment by Phil Klay (2014 National Book Award Winner for Fiction)

FEATURED SHORT FICTION"Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos.In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating […]

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WRBH Volunteer of the Month: May

Written and transcribed by Sarah HoltzOur Volunteer of the Month for May is Jillian, who you might recognize from her weekly stint reading the News at Noon. I got the chance to talk with Jillian in Studio One and hear about her background in theater, her international family, and the many places she lived and worked before arriving in New Orleans.How long have you been reading for WRBH?Well, it turns […]

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

FEATURED NON-FICTION"Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander […]

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BOOKSHELF: Tell The Wolves I’m Home

FEATURED BOOK OFF THE SHELF"1987. There’s only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that’s her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn’s company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June’s world […]

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WRBH Blog: Poetry Contest Winners Meet and Perform

Poetry On A Friday Afternoon   From a competitive field of hundreds of entries across Greater New Orleans, four winners have been selected for the inaugural WRBH Reading Radio Poetry Contest celebrating April’s National Poetry Month. WRBH poetry contest winners included: 1st Place - Elizabeth Theriot; 2nd Place - Christine Achille Gunter; 3rd Place - David Armand; and Honorable Mention - Phillip Mollere. First place winner Elizabeth Theriot graduates this month from the University of New Orleans […]

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LOCAL BOOK: New Orleans After The Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom

FEATURED LOCAL BOOK"We often think of Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution. Justin A. Nystrom’s original study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans takes a different perspective, arguing that the politics of the era were less of a binary struggle over political supremacy and morality than they were about a quest for stability in a world rendered uncertain and unfamiliar by the collapse of slavery.Commercially vibrant and racially unique […]

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Freud’s Mistress

FEATURED FICTION His theories would change the world—and tear hers apart. A page-turning novel inspired by the true-life love affair between Sigmund Freud and his sister-in-law. "It is fin-de-siècle Vienna and Minna Bernays, an overeducated lady’s companion with a sharp, wry wit, is abruptly fired, yet again, from her position. She finds herself out on the street and out of options. In 1895, the city may be aswirl with avant-garde […]

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WRBH 88.3 FM, Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is the only full-time reading service on the FM dial in the United States. At WRBH, our mission is to turn the printed word into the spoken word so that the blind and print handicapped receive the same ease of access to current information as their sighted peers.

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