Carlos Frías
Carlos Frías is a bilingual writer, a journalist of more than 25 years and the author of an award-winning memoir published by Simon & Schuster.
He voted for Greg Maddux for the Baseball Hall of Fame, fed croquetas to José Andrés, dodged Cuban soldiers on the island, and held a mother’s hand at her daughter’s last birthday party.
He’s a two-time James Beard Award winner and author of the memoir Take Me With You: A Secret Search for Family in a Forbidden Cuba. Miami is his hometown and his bottomless source for endless stories.
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Tananarive Due is a novelist who writes in the genre of Black horror. She’ll be presenting two books at the Miami Book Fair this weekend, including her latest The Reformatory.
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Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books including Krik Krak and Brother, I’m Dying, which were finalists for the National Book Awards. She was born in Haiti and calls Miami home. She’s being honored at the Miami Book Fair’s 40th anniversary celebration.
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Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books including Krik Krak and Brother, I’m Dying, which were finalists for the National Book Awards. She was born in Haiti and calls Miami home. She’s being honored at the Miami Book Fair’s 40th anniversary celebration.
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We're joined by Afrofuturism scholar Julian Chambliss. He co-curated the "Afrofantastic" exhibit at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale.
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We're joined by Afrofuturism scholar Julian Chambliss. He co-curated the "Afrofantastic" exhibit at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale.
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Emmanuel George is an archivist and community historian who created the Black Broward Instagram page to share pieces of Broward’s Black history. It’s a peek into all the different kinds of work he’s doing to highlight Broward’s Black history.
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It’s a crossover episode of Sundial and Folk and Acoustic Music with Michael Stock. Jesus Hidalgo and Teresa de Jesus co-founded the annual Music Medicine Festival to spread the healing powers of music. They join us for a jam session and to talk about how music brought healing to their own lives.
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"The Princess Diaries" heartthrob, Robert Schwartzman, is an actor, musician and filmmaker. He’ll be at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival this weekend presenting four films.
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Tony Laurencio and Cuci Amador are the founders of Afrobeta — they embody a Miami sound. They star in the Emmy-nominated documentary, "Birthright," about their trip to play in Cuba. They join us to talk about that controversial trip and what it taught them about themselves.
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Tony Laurencio and Cuci Amador are the founders of Afrobeta — they embody a Miami sound. They star in the Emmy-nominated documentary, "Birthright," about their trip to play in Cuba. They join us to talk about that controversial trip and what it taught them about themselves.
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Roberto Carlos Cruz Garcia is the author behind "Sweet Boy: The Unintentional Offender." Roberto has ADHD and he’s on the Autism spectrum. But as a kid, he was undiagnosed — and this made him the sweet boy who would sometimes say the wrong thing at the wrong time and that became the inspiration for the book.
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Host Carlos Frías is joined by Miami-Dade County's director of public housing and community development. He's a Miami native who's trying to find solutions to the housing affordability crisis.