Book Launch: America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice
Book Launch: The Sex Lives of African Women, with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Deesha Philyaw
Chronicling The Hip-Hop South: In Conversation with Regina Bradley, Dasan Ahanu and Kyesha Jennings
The Quarter Storm: Book Launch with Veronica G. Henry and Cadwell Turnbull
Don't Cry For Me: Virtual Book Launch with Daniel Black and Gabriel Bump
Shackled Freedom Anniversary Celebration: Poetry and Conversation with Dasan Ahanu
December 12 - A celebration of the one year anniversary of Shackled Freedom: Black Living in the Modern American South. Dasan Ahanu will share from the poetry collection and sit down with Omisade Burney for a conversation exploring inspiration, community and craft. With performances by guest poets Wildperfection and Sh8kes.
Passing: Film Screening and Conversation with Karla Holloway and Blair Kelley
Khalisa Rae: Poetry Reading and Conversation
Nov 19 - An evening of poetry and conversation with debut author of Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat, Khalisa Rae, at her Rofhiwa Book Cafe book signing with some of the best and brightest poetry talents Durham has to offer.
Poetry Reading and Discussion: Afrofuturism, Black Comics and Superhero Poetry
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.