LinkedInInstagramFacebookEmailTune In Podcast! Tune In Podcast!

About DrAlvin

This author has not yet filled in any details.
So far DrAlvin has created 1584 blog entries.

David J. Garrow, Author Of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama Chats With Dr. Alvin

David Garrow NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross Barack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as America's first African-American president. In this penetrating biography, David J. Garrow delivers an epic work about the life of Barack Obama, creating a rich tapestry of a life little understood, until now. Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama captivatingly describes Barack Obama's tumultuous upbringing as a young black man attending [...]

By |May 26th, 2017|African Americans, Biography, Gospel, History, Politics, Public Affairs|Comments Off on David J. Garrow, Author Of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama Chats With Dr. Alvin
Read More

DrAlvin.Com Welcomes Amy Black A Memphis Revue To City Winery Nashville

Amy Black A Memphis Music Revue with Amy Black On Sunday June 11th at 7PM. To purchase tickets call 615-324-1010. Join The Amy Black Band for a soulful evening of music originally recorded in Memphis by artists including Ann Peebles, Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Bobby Blue Bland, O.V. Wright, Al Green, Otis Clay and others. Take a musical journey through time with songs recorded on the Hi Records, Stax Records and Sun Records labels, along with new original songs that capture the soul and grit of Memphis music. ABOUT AMY BLACK Amy Black’s fourth solo release, “Memphis” (June 2017) was recorded in Memphis, TN with Scott Bomar, a grammy-nominated producer and leader of the band [...]

By |May 26th, 2017|African Americans, Music, Performing Arts|Comments Off on DrAlvin.Com Welcomes Amy Black A Memphis Revue To City Winery Nashville
Read More

William Hogeland, Author Of Autumn Of The Black Snake: The Creation Of The U.S. Army And The Invasion That Opened The West Chats With Dr. Alvin

William Hogeland The forgotten story of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Indian war When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the newly independent United States savored its victory and hoped for a great future. And yet the republic soon found itself losing an escalating military conflict on its borderlands. In 1791, years of skirmishes, raids, and quagmire climaxed in the grisly defeat of American militiamen by a brilliantly organized confederation of Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware Indians. With nearly one thousand U.S. casualties, this was the worst defeat the nation would ever suffer at native hands. Americans were shocked, perhaps none more so than their commander in chief, George Washington, who [...]

By |May 26th, 2017|Biography, History, Leadership, Military, War|Comments Off on William Hogeland, Author Of Autumn Of The Black Snake: The Creation Of The U.S. Army And The Invasion That Opened The West Chats With Dr. Alvin
Read More

Holly Peterson, Author Of It Happens in the Hamptons: A Novel Chats With Dr. Alvin

Holly Peterson In the Hamptons, everyday people are as complicated and fascinating as millionaires... When Katie Doyle moves across the country to the Hamptons, she is hoping to find summer employment, new friends for her young son, and a chance to explore a new love affair with George, a dazzling investor. What she finds is a strange cocktail of classes, where society’s one-percenters vacation alongside local, hardworking people who’ve lived in the Hamptons for generations. Though she’s looking forward to her move, Katie is wary about mingling in her boyfriend’s East Coast elite circles. She soon discovers Southampton isn’t all that it seems to be on the surface—and neither are the people who live there. [...]

By |May 26th, 2017|Fiction, Parenting, Relationships, Romance, Travel|Comments Off on Holly Peterson, Author Of It Happens in the Hamptons: A Novel Chats With Dr. Alvin
Read More

Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: Share Your Networking Stories Chats With Dr. Alvin

LateShift-Valencia Campbell 052617 Share Your Networking Stories

By |May 26th, 2017|African Americans, Business, Careers, Leadership, Women|Comments Off on Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: Share Your Networking Stories Chats With Dr. Alvin
Read More

Dr. Michael J. Bradley Crazy-Stressed: Saving Today’s Overwhelmed Teens With Love, Laughter, And The Science of Resilience Chats With Dr. Alvin

Michael Bradley A little resilience goes a long way.... Peel back the cheerful facade that parents present, and you'll find that many are worried about their teens. Mood swings, impulsiveness, poor judgment, and other problems peak in these years. Add stressors such as screen addiction, cyberbullying, increasing academic demands, and time-consuming athletic commitments . . . and it's no surprise that today's teenagers rank as the most anxious in 50 years. Parents long to help, but how? Based on a career counseling kids and their parents, psychologist Michael Bradley locates the most powerful protective trait: resilience. Teens with this crucial quality know how to handle difficulty, overcome obstacles, and bounce back from setbacks. Packed with [...]

By |May 24th, 2017|Children, Men, Parenting, Relationships, Women, Youth|Comments Off on Dr. Michael J. Bradley Crazy-Stressed: Saving Today’s Overwhelmed Teens With Love, Laughter, And The Science of Resilience Chats With Dr. Alvin
Read More

Dale Price Author Of Price Of Duty Chats With Dr. Alvin

Dale Brown-Price Of Duty The U.S. and its Western allies come under a diabolical Russian cyber warfare attack in this action-packed military techno-thriller from New York Times bestselling master Dale Brown. In a top-secret location deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has built his nation’s most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb—a fearsome tool to gain superiority in Russia’s long-running battle with the West. From inside Perun Aerie—an intricate network of underground tunnels and chambers that is the heart of the Russian cyber warfare program—he is launching a carefully plotted series of attacks on an unsuspecting U.S. and its European allies. The first strike targets Warsaw, Poland, where Russian malware wipes out [...]

By |May 23rd, 2017|Fiction, Military, Uncategorized, War|Comments Off on Dale Price Author Of Price Of Duty Chats With Dr. Alvin
Read More

Christopher Stuart Of Seven Deadly Sins Featuring Ten Out Of Tenn With Appalachian Spring & The Nashville Symphony Chats With Dr. Alvin

Christopher Stuart Seven Deadly Sins choreography by Christopher Stuart Music composed and performed live by Ten Out of Tenn Ten Out of Tenn Artist Lineup: Butterfly Boucher, Trent Dabbs, Gabe Dixon, Katie Herzig, Matthew Perryman Jones, Erin McCarley, K.S. Rhoads, Amy Stroup Appalachian Spring choreography by Paul Vasterling Live music performed by the Nashville Symphony Music by Aaron Copland Dance, songwriting, live music, orchestration and storytelling combine into one during the world premiere of Seven Deadly Sins. Three Nashville arts organizations—Nashville Ballet, Ten Out of Tenn and the Nashville Symphony—team up for a thoughtful examination of the temptations we face every day, the choices we make and the hopeful path to redemption when we falter. [...]

By |May 20th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Christopher Stuart Of Seven Deadly Sins Featuring Ten Out Of Tenn With Appalachian Spring & The Nashville Symphony Chats With Dr. Alvin
Read More