Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
His memoir "The Color of Water", about growing up as the son of a black Baptist minister and a Jewish mother, spent two years on the New York Times Bestseller list. Now author and jazz musician James McBride joins Kojo for a discussion about his new novel, based on the Buffalo soldiers of World War Two.
Guests
- James McBride Author, Miracle at St. Anna (Riverhead Books); musician; composer
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