Rainbow Soul

Host Rhonda Terry interviews singer, actress, writer Dr Glory Van Scott at the top of the show.  Scott talks about her book Glory: A Life Among Legends, a powerful memoir that takes the reader from an early life whose innocence is cut short almost overnight, to Van Scott's dedication to the performing arts as a professional who would find herself at the vanguard of a new vision of African-American dance and theater securing its place as an original American art form.  Then talks with Art Historian Sherry Turner DeCarava on the second half of the show regarding The Roy DeCarava Centennial Celebration wherein they discuss The Sweet Flypaper of Life, Roy's 1955 book with Langston Hughes.