Dinner & A Book - The Warmth of Other Suns

Join me and my guest Irene Eskridge as we discuss the Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. We'll prepare a Southern banquet of sweet potato pie, oxtail stew, macaroni and cheese, southern potato salad, mustard and turnip green and much more on Dinner and a Book.

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.