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Catch the Wave

Playing at the upcoming Pan-African Film Festival and Santa Barbara Film Festival, Wade in the Water: A Journey into Black Surfing and Aquatic Culture reclaims the 1,000-year-old tradition of Black surfing. | From the Wade in the Water Project / Created by David Mesfin, an award-winning creative director and multidisciplinary designer,

Being Blunt

Event: January 27, 2023 | From Harvard Book Store / Harvard Book Store welcomes KRISTIN HASS—Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life—for a discussion of her new book Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural

The Black Foodie Bookstore

Pan-African Food Festival

The Black Foodie Bookstore

This is what we're talking about. | From Kayla Stewart via bon appetit / Sisters Gabrielle and Danielle Davenport created and have operated this delicious dreamworld in Brooklyn since 2021. The bookstore stocks cookbooks by Black chefs as well as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s books that are related to food

A 2023 Reading List

Our World Weekly

A 2023 Reading List

Our fellow African Book Addict gives us some great titles to anticpate. From Darkowaa at African Book Addict / "I’ve compiled 102 new African, African-American, Black-Brit and Caribbean books that look very promising. Please note – this list/collage is just a snippet of books by Black authors 2023 has to

What to Read

Open Country Mag offers their take on the year's best books from African writers. | About Open Country Mag / "From culture icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to transformational artists Teju Cole and Damon Galgut, to groundbreaking advocates Tsitsi Dangarembga and Maaza Mengiste, to the next generation of voices, Open Country Mag has

Better. Recognize.

Better. Recognize.

We join the Black Alumni Council at Georgetown in celebrating the work and achievements of author and scholar, Marcia Chatelain. From Professor Marcia Chatelain / "I am currently a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Previously, I was a Reach for Excellence Assistant

Stay Wake

Working in conjunction with the Ida B. Wells Education Project, scholar and activist Rebecca Hall, author of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, has developed discussion guides and learning lessons to help readers get more out of the book. | "Using in-depth archival research and the measured use of

Black in Alaska

Black in Alaska

A new book by Ian Hartman and David Reamer uncovers an undertold history. | From author Ian Hartman, via Alaska Public Radio / "You’re not really talking about Alaska really coming under U.S. control until the 1860s and 70s. But there is an Alaskan Black presence that predates even the

This Is How We Reconstruct

This Is How We Reconstruct

Virtual Event: December 15, 2022 | From the Mark Twain House and Museum / In  The Third Reconstruction, Peniel E. Joseph offers a new interpretation of our recent history. He draws connections and insights across centuries from America’s first and second Reconstructions, the movements that arose after the Civil War and

Black Homesteaders

Black Homesteaders

Event: November 19, 2022 | The International African American Museum will lead a discussion about the book Black Homesteaders of The South with author Bernice Alexander Bennett and additional speakers on Saturday, November 19th. Register HERE. November 19, 2022: Black Homesteaders of The South Workshop - International African American MuseumThe International

The Future Is Now. And Then.

The Future Is Now. And Then.

Event: November 9, 2022 | From the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy / The LBJ School of Public Affairs Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and The University of Texas at Austin's Department of History bring you a conversation with Dr. Jeremi Suri and Dr. Peniel Joseph

RECOLLECT - Episode #9

RECOLLECT - Episode #9

Verena Krebs is the author of Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, the book explores why Ethiopia’s Solomonic kings initiated long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen delegations dispatched

Black Women Will Save the World? Facts.

Black Women Will Save the World? Facts.

A conversation with revered White House correspondent, April Ryan, at the Schomburg Center in New York. Date: October 18, 2022 | Register HERE. April Ryan is the Washington D.C Bureau Chief and Senior White House Correspondent at theGrio. She can be seen on CNN as a political analyst. Ryan has

Blackness Wins!

Blackness Wins!

Howard French, author of "Born in Blackness," wins the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. Absolutely deserved. | This year's virtual award event featuring remarks by our esteemed panel of jurors, our two brilliant finalists, and a conversation with winning author Howard French moderated by GBH's Under the Radar

Let's Talk About It

Let's Talk About It

Event: October 27,2022 | In And There Was Light, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times bestselling author chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. Jon Meacham will

Scripting Blackness

Scripting Blackness

Event: October 7, 2022 | Looking forward to discussing /Scripts of Blackness/ at the Yale Renaissance Colloquium this Friday 12.30pm EST! The talk will focus on Blackspeak (sonic impersonation). Registration link and discount code in the poster below. 🖤 pic.twitter.com/7cK7e8ksQ3 — Noémie Ndiaye (@NdiayeNoemie) October 3, 2022 Welcome! You

For the Bookshelf

For the Bookshelf

A enduring story of memory and endurance. Event: October 11, 2022 | Check out this event where Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa discusses important themes on Oct. 11! https://t.co/Mpk2qV9cQp — Cite Black Women. (@citeblackwomen) October 2, 2022 Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa | HomeDahlma Llanos-Figueroa, PEN Finalist, writer, memoirist, Afro-Boricua, Puerto Rican, Daughters of the Stone

Ramifications

Author Leslie Fenwick details how the long-term consequences of Brown v. Board of Education continue to be complex. | A new book by Howard University professor Leslie T. Fenwick shows how the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education led to the loss of Black educators and