Film Screening: Through The Night
Virtual Book Talk: Things I Have Withheld, Kei Miller and Xavier Livermon
Everybody in the Red Brick Building: Virtual Book Launch
ERASURE OF BLACK THOUGHT: A CONVERSATION ABOUT CRITICAL RACE THEORY WITH BLACK ACADEMICS AND WRITERS
Belly of The Beast: Da'Shaun L. Harrison Book Talk
Black Boy Joy Launch Event
Aug 3 - We are elated to host the launch event for Black Boy Joy on August 3, 2021. Black Boy Joy is an upcoming middle grade anthology, edited by Kwame Mbalia, NC-based author of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky. We are joined by a powerhouse team of authors and contributors to Black Boy Joy: BB Alston, Don P. Hooper, George M. Johnson, Justin A. Reynolds, and of course, Kwame Mbalia.
These are today’s top and rising-star Black authors who have contributed genre-spanning stories to this fresh and vital middle-grade anthology about the joys and complexities of Black boyhood. Can’t wait!
Virtual Book Talk: Barbara Boswell & Shanna Greene Benjamin, The Intellectual Legacies of Black Women
June 9 - Professor Shanna Greene Benjamin and Dr. Barbara Boswell celebrate their new books and lead us in conversation about the intellectual legacies of Black Women in South Africa and the US.
Virtual Book Talk: Sifiso Mzobe and Jacob Ross, Crime Writing in South Africa and the Caribbean
Virtual Book Launch: How To Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind
Virtual Poetry Reading: L. Teresa Church, Cynthia Manick, & L. Lamar Wilson
Dr. Stella Nyanzi & Prof. Tsitsi Jaji
March 26th — In this first conversation we invite two poets, Dr. Stella Nyanzi and Professor Tsitsi Jaji. In one hour and across two continents, we asked them to read and reflect and take us wherever they wished to go.