Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
Book
Coretta : the autobiography of Mrs. Coretta… [2024]
Coretta Scott King
Black boy joy : 17 stories celebrating Black… [2021]
Kwame Mbalia
The ABCs of Black history [2020]
Rio Cortez
Hold them close : a love letter to Black… [2022]
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Sulwe [2019]
Lupita Nyong'o
Independence and equality [2010]
Elizabeth R Cregan
Time for change. Breaking down walls [2023]
Leonard S Baker
Time for change. On the march [2023]
Time for change. Take a stand [2023]
The March against Fear : the last great walk of… [2017]
Ann Bausum
Black is a rainbow color [2020]
Angela Joy
Call and response : the story of Black Lives… [2021]
Veronica Chambers
Before the ships : the birth of Black excellence [2024]
Maisha Oso
The story of the black national anthem [2019]
Duchess Harris
More than just a game : the Black origins of… [2021]
Madison Moore
Lifting as we climb : Black women's battle for… [2020]
Evette Dionne
The impact of Black churches on the Civil Rights… [2020]
Atrocities in action [2022]
Kevin P Winn
Little leaders : bold women in black history [2017]
Vashti Harrison
Juneteenth is [2024]
Natasha Tripplett
Stamped (for kids) : racism, antiracism, and you [2021]
Sonja Cherry-Paul
Black boy, Black boy : celebrate the power of… [2022]
Ali Kamanda
Sing, Aretha, sing! : Aretha Franklin,… [2021]
Hanif Abdurraqib
Civil rights [2023]
Martha London
Harlem at four [2023]
Michael Datcher
Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high… [2012]
Ann Malaspina
Elijah of Buxton [2007]
Christopher Paul Curtis
Black artists in photography, 1840-1940 [1996]
George Sullivan
The founders unmasked [2022]
Jennifer Poux
Malcolm X in his own words [2015]
Sarah Machajewski
Bound for the promised land : the great black… [1995]
Michael L Cooper
Kin : rooted in hope [2023]
Carole Boston Weatherford
Black inventors : 15 inventions that changed the… [2021]
Kathy Trusty
The birth of hip-hop [2020]
What were the Negro Leagues? [2019]
Varian Johnson
The forgotten girl [2019]
India Hill Brown
Who is Barack Obama? [2017]
Roberta Edwards
Black hands, white sails : the story of… [1999]
Pat McKissack
Black diamond : the story of the Negro baseball… [1994]
Sundiata : lion king of Mali [1992]
David Wisniewski
Let it shine : stories of Black women freedom… [2000]
Andrea Davis Pinkney
You gotta meet Mr. Pierce! : the storied life of… [2023]
Chiquita Mullins Lee
Racial justice [2022]
Virginia Loh-Hagan
The Amistad mutiny [2021]
Barbara A Somervill
Viola Desmond won't be budged! [2010]
Jody Nyasha Warner
Black Jack : the ballad of Jack Johnson [2010]
Charles R Smith
Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba [2000]
Opal's Greenwood oasis [2021]
Najah-Amatullah Hylton
Star-spangled : the story of a flag, a battle,… [2020]
Tim Grove
Twelve days in May : Freedom Ride 1961 [2017]
Larry Dane Brimner
African American women writers [2000]
Brenda Scott Wilkinson
Tell all the children our story : memories and… [2001]
Tonya Bolden
Ways to build dreams [2023]
Renée Watson
The 1619 Project, born on the water [2021]
Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Tulsa race riot [2020]
The power of her pen : the story of… [2020]
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Jesse Owens [2017]
Laurie Calkhoven
The door of no return [2022]
Kwame Alexander
One crazy summer [2010]
Rita Williams-Garcia
The Black regiment of the American Revolution [2004]
Linda Crotta Brennan
Other
Maya's song [2022]
Carter reads the newspaper [2019]
Deborah Hopkinson
Stars in the shadows : the Negro league all-star… [2012]
Juneteenth [2021]
Emily J Dolbear
The civil rights movement [2021]
Rose Venable
The great migration [2020]
A long walk to water [2010]
Linda Sue Park
Build a house [2022]
Rhiannon Giddens
What is the Black Lives Matter movement? [2021]
Hedreich Nichols
The people remember [2021]
Ibi Aanu Zoboi
The thirteenth amendment and its legacy [2020]
Remember Little Rock : the time, the people, the… [2009]
Paul Robert Walker
Dream big, little one [2018]
Black frontiers : a history of African American… [1995]
Lillian Schlissel
The last Black king of the Kentucky Derby : the… [2008]
Crystal Hubbard
1607 : a new look at Jamestown [2007]
Karen E Lange
Treasure Island : runaway gold [2023]
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jim Crow and policing [2022]
Voting rights [2022]
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson? [2022]
Shelia P Moses
Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963 [2019]
Sharon Robinson
A long walk to water : a novel [2010]
Blacks in Paris : African American culture in… [2019]
Nat Turner and the Virginia slave revolt [2021]
Rivvy Neshama
Madam C.J. Walker : entrepreneur [2021]
Lori Hobkirk
The soccer fence : a story of friendship, hope,… [2014]
Phil Bildner
Mae makes a way : the true story of Mae Reeves,… [2022]
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre [2021]
This promise of change : one girl's story in the… [2019]
Jo Ann Allen Boyce
Courage has no color : the true story of the… [2013]
Tanya Lee Stone
Civil rights then & now : a timeline of the… [2022]
Kristina Brooke Daniele
America's black founders : revolutionary heroes… [2010]
Nancy I Sanders
How to build a museum : Smithsonian's National… [2016]
Black star [2024]
Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson,… [2022]
Yohuru Williams
The Greensboro lunch counter : what an artifact… [2022]
Shawn Pryor
Now or never! : 54th Massachusetts Infantry's… [2017]
Ray Anthony Shepard
Infinite hope : a Black artist's journey from… [2019]
Ashley Bryan
Black heroes of the wild west : a Toon graphic [2020]
James Otis Smith
Black Lives Matter [2018]
Black power salute : how a photograph captured a… [2017]
Danielle Smith-Llera
The Tuskegee Airmen [2021]
Sarah De Capua
Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson : taking the stage… [2014]
Searching for Sarah Rector : the richest Black… [2014]
We are your children too : Black students, white… [2023]
P O'Connell Pearson
A black woman did that! : 42 boundary-breaking,… [2019]
Malaika Adero
Harriet Tubman, secret agent : how daring slaves… [2006]
Thomas B Allen
The Tulsa race massacre [2021]
Kara L Laughlin
Tales for little rebels : a collection of… [2008]
Julia L Mickenberg
Opal Lee and what it means to be free : the true… [2022]
Alice Faye Duncan
Mary McLeod Bethune : pioneering educator [2021]
Amy Robin Jones
Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America [2012]
Schomburg : the man who built a library [2017]
Call me Roberto! : Roberto Clemente goes to bat… [2024]
Nathalie Alonso
Fort Mose : and the story of the man who built… [2010]
Glennette Tilley Turner
Cicely Tyson [2024]
The new Brownies' book : a love letter to Black… [2023]
Karida Brown
Women in Black history : stories of courage,… [2016]
Tricia Williams Jackson
The courageous six triple eight : the all-black… [2023]
Artika R Tyner
Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of… [2015]
Tommy Traveler in the world of Black history [1991]
Tom Feelings
Black and white airmen : their true history [2007]
John Fleischman
Hair love [2019]
Matthew A Cherry
Big [2023]
