Episode 368: Black History Month Best of: Dana Williams Recounts Impact of Toni Morrison on Black Writers As Editor

In celebration of Black History Month, we're reposting Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay's interview with Dana A. Williams , author of TONI AT RANDOM: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship . It was was originally posted on July 3, 2025. In the interview, Dr. Williams discussed Toni Morrison's path to becoming a book editor, some of the Black writers she edited at Random House including Angela Davis and Toni Cade Bambara, and what inspired her to write the book.Dana A. Williams is Professor of African American Literature in the Department of English and Dean of the Graduate School at Howard University. She is former president of the College Language Association and the Modern Languages Association and is the author of In the Light of Likeness—Transformed: The Literary Art of Leon Forrest. Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media : Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreview Instagram - @diverse_voices_book_review

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Episode 368: Black History Month Best of: Dana Williams Recounts Impact of Toni Morrison on Black Writers As Editor is an episode from KAZI 88.7 FM Book Review by Hopeton Hay.

This episode is 39:41 long.

This episode was published on Feb 14, 2026.

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