Videos

Joseph Ross, author of Raising King, Kim Roberts, author of By Broad Potomac’s Shore, and Tara Campbell, author of Political AF, discussed the role of poetry in activism. This event is from …

Book TV presented coverage of the National African American Read-in, an event that promotes literacy during Black History Month.

A panel discussion was held on the history of emancipation in the United States. The panelists talked about the social, moral, and legal forces that President Lincoln considered in his decis…

Professor Ethelbert Miller of Howard University spoke about the impact of the works of James Baldwin on the Civil Rights Movement.

Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) talked about problems associated with poverty, race and gender. The Senator gave the speech during a poverty tour modeled after the anti-poverty efforts of the …

Several fiction authors read from their works at an award dinner sponsored by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. The theme for the readings was “A Lesson.” Participating authors were Alice Adams, …