The launch of Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class which illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America. Please join us as author of Black Folk, Blair Kelley talks to Melissa Harris-Perry, media host, and author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America. 

An afternoon with author, Igiaba Scego and Durham visual artist, Maya Freelon as we launch Scego's second novel, The Color Line. Igiaba's third novel, The Color Line combines the characters of Edmonia Lewis and Sarah Parker Remond and is dedicated to Rome and to these two African-American women who lived in 19th-century Rome - interweaving the lives of two women artists, more than a century apart and both living in Italy.