Videos

Atlantic Magazine staff writer Adam Serwer reflected on the past and future of what he calls “Trump’s America.” Magic City Books in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hosted this virtual program.

Richard Rothstein talked about his book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, in which he argues that local, state, and federal legislation has been…

Bestselling authors Ta-Nehisi Coates, Malcolm Gladwell, Rachel Maddow, Karin Slaughter, and Marjorie Liu discussed their forthcoming books at BookExpo, the publishing industry’s annual trade…

Actor Danny Glover, author Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and others testified on slavery reparations before a House Judiciary subcommittee. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee …

Heather Ann Thompson talked about her book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, in which she recalls the Attica prison uprising that took place at the Attic…

Ta-Nehisi Coates talked about his book We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, in which he examines race, the Obama presidency, and the election of Donald Trump through a collecti…

The presidents of Georgetown and Harvard universities discussed the role slavery played in the history of their institutions and communities. They were interviewed by Ta-Nehisi Coates at the…

Filmmaker Ezra Edelman talked about the making of his ESPN documentary, O.J.: Made in America. He was interviewed by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A video clip was shown. Then chef David Chang discus…

Members of the the law enforcement community and the Department of Justice’s director of Community Oriented Policing Services discussed the importance of strengthening police-community relat…

Ta-Nehisi Coates talked about his book Between the World and Me, in which he addresses, in the form of a letter to his adolescent son, what it means to inhabit a black body and find a way to…

The Atlantic hosted a day-long series of panel discussions on race relations and criminal justice. This portion of the event involved a conversation with NPR special correspondent Michele N…

Margaret Low Smith introduced a day-long series of panel discussions on race relations and criminal justice. Then Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent for The Atlantic, and James Bennet,…

Book TV’s coverage of the 66th annual National Book Awards included the presentation of awards for non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. Novelist Don Delillo received …

A day-long series of panel discussions on race relations and criminal justice wrapped up with a conversation between Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile and Atlantic national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Co…

In a series of interviews, race relations, food security, poverty, and other social issues were talked about. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke about her novel Americanah, a Nigerian girl’s acc…

Ta-Nehisi Coates talked about his article in The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations,” about the struggles and treatment of African Americans in the U.S. throughout the 20th century and in t…

Historians and authors discuss ongoing legacies of the Civil War - the issues and controversies that are still being borne out today. Yale University s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of…

Howard University faculty and students in the political science department talked about the status of African-American men in the United States and the causes of their current state. They di…