Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
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Conversations in black : on power, politics, and… [2020]
Ed Gordon
Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change… [2020]
Layla F Saad
Overground railroad : the Green Book and the… [2020]
Candacy A Taylor
Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and… [2019]
Yuval Taylor
Olympic pride, American prejudice : the untold… [2020]
Deborah Riley Draper
The color of compromise : the truth about the… [2019]
Jemar Tisby
Stony the road : Reconstruction, white… [2019]
Henry Louis Gates
Children of the dream : why school integration… [2019]
Rucker C Johnson
They were her property : white women as slave… [2019]
Stephanie E Jones-Rogers
We speak for ourselves : a word from forgotten… [2019]
D Watkins
They stole him out of jail : Willie Earle, South… [2019]
William Gravely
Separate : the story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and… [2019]
Steve Luxenberg
Sacred ground : the Chicago streets of Timuel… [2019]
Timuel D Black
Free all along : the Robert Penn Warren civil… [2019]
Stephen Smith
Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church… [2019]
Doug Jones
The accident of color : a story of race in… [2019]
Daniel Brook
Remembering Emmett Till [2019]
Dave Tell
Equality : an American dilemma, 1866-1896 [2019]
Charles Postel
Fight the power : African Americans and the long… [2019]
Clarence Taylor
A bound woman is a dangerous thing : the… [2019]
DaMaris B Hill
Black is the body : stories from my… [2019]
Emily Bernard
Unexampled courage : the blinding of Sgt. Isaac… [2019]
Richard Gergel
Thick : and other essays [2019]
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Freedom : the overthrowing of the slave empires [2019]
James Walvin
Goodness and the literary imagination : Harvard… [2019]
Toni Morrison
Rap on trial : race, lyrics, and guilt in… [2019]
Erik Nielson
Soaring to glory : a Tuskegee airman's firsthand… [2019]
Philip Handleman
The burden : African Americans and the enduring… [2018]
Rochelle Riley
I'm still here : black dignity in a world made… [2018]
Austin Channing Brown
What the eyes don't see : a story of crisis,… [2018]
Mona Hanna-Attisha
Five for freedom : the African American soldiers… [2018]
Eugene L Meyer
An African American and Latinx history of the… [2018]
Paul Ortiz
To the promised land : Martin Luther King and… [2018]
Michael K Honey
Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" [2018]
Zora Neale Hurston
The war on neighborhoods : policing, prison, and… [2018]
Ryan Lugalia-Hollon
Black fortunes : the story of the first six… [2018]
Shomari Wills
High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of… [2018]
Ben Austen
The Tuskegee Airmen chronology : a detailed… [2018]
Daniel L Haulman
A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses… [2018]
Jeanne Theoharis
Smoketown : the untold story of the other great… [2018]
Mark Whitaker
Eloquent rage : a black feminist discovers her… [2018]
Brittney C Cooper
To shape a new world : essays on the political… [2018]
Tommie Shelby
Separate and unequal : the Kerner Commission and… [2018]
Steven M Gillon
The bone and sinew of the land : America's… [2018]
Anna-Lisa Cox
Sexuality and slavery : reclaiming intimate… [2018]
Daina Ramey Berry
Hidden in plain sight : the underground railroad… [2018]
Linda Braun-Hass
Burden : a preacher, a Klansman, and a true… [2018]
Courtney Hargrave
One person, no vote : how voter suppression is… [2018]
Carol Anderson
Chocolate City : a history of race and democracy… [2017]
Chris Myers Asch
The dawn of Detroit : a chronicle of slavery and… [2017]
Tiya Miles
100 amazing facts about the Negro [2017]
Why the vote wasn't enough for Selma [2017]
Karlyn Forner
Stark mad abolitionists : Lawrence, Kansas, and… [2017]
Robert Kent Sutton
Squadron : ending the African slave trade [2017]
John Broich
We were eight years in power : an American… [2017]
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The color of law : a forgotten history of how… [2017]
Richard Rothstein
A colony in a nation [2017]
Christopher Hayes
The blood of Emmett Till [2017]
Timothy B Tyson
The fire this time : a new generation speaks… [2016]
Jesmyn Ward
Nobody : casualties of America's war on the… [2016]
Marc Lamont Hill
Crook County : racism and injustice in America's… [2016]
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
Blood at the root : a racial cleansing in… [2016]
Patrick Phillips
They can't kill us all : Ferguson, Baltimore,… [2016]
Wesley Lowery
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation [2016]
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Freedom is a constant struggle : Ferguson,… [2016]
Angela Y Davis
The lynching : the epic courtroom battle that… [2016]
Laurence Leamer
The covenant with Black America - ten years… [2016]
Tavis Smiley
From the war on poverty to the war on crime :… [2016]
Elizabeth Kai Hinton
Invisible man, got the whole world watching : a… [2016]
Mychal Denzel Smith
Jackson, 1964 : and other dispatches from fifty… [2016]
Calvin Trillin
Mounting frustration : the art museum in the age… [2016]
Susan Cahan
White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial… [2016]
The black Calhouns : from Civil War to civil… [2016]
Gail Lumet Buckley
The South Side : a portrait of Chicago and… [2016]
Natalie Y Moore
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive… [2016]
Ibram X Kendi
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American… [2016]
Matthew Desmond
Clean and white : a history of environmental… [2015]
Carl A Zimring
How capitalism underdeveloped Black America :… [1983]
Manning Marable
The Beast side : living and dying while black in… [2015]
And still I rise : black America since MLK : an… [2015]
The counter-revolution of 1776 : slave… [2014]
Gerald Horne
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption [2014]
Bryan Stevenson
All eyes are upon us : race and politics from… [2014]
Jason Sokol
The Selma awakening : how the Civil Rights… [2014]
Mark D Morrison-Reed
The origins of the urban crisis : race and… [1996]
Thomas J Sugrue
The wars of Reconstruction : the brief, violent… [2014]
Douglas R Egerton
Down to the crossroads : civil rights, Black… [2014]
Aram Goudsouzian
Black against empire : the history and politics… [2013]
Joshua Bloom
Detroit : race riots, racial conflicts, and… [2013]
Joe T Darden
The march on Washington : jobs, freedom, and the… [2013]
William Powell Jones
A city within a city : the Black freedom… [2013]
Todd E Robinson
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader [2012]
Inherently unequal : the betrayal of equal… [2011]
Lawrence Goldstone
Life upon these shores : looking at African… [2011]
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age… [2010]
Michelle Alexander
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of… [2010]
Isabel Wilkerson
NAACP : celebrating a century : 100 years in… [2009]
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of… [2008]
Douglas A Blackmon
I've got the light of freedom : the organizing… [2007]
Charles M Payne
Race, reform, and rebellion : the second… [2007]
A stronger kinship : one town's extraordinary… [2006]
Living Black history : how reimagining the… [2006]
