Videos

Authors Ibram Kendi, Kevin Powell, Ladee Hubbard, and Maurice Ruffin looked at race relations and Black literature. The National Black Writers Conference sponsored this event at Medgar Evers…

Younger civil rights activists talked about the future of the movement, how to better organize, and get youth involved in pushing for change. “The Next 50 Years: Freedom Forward” was a pane…

Panelists talked about the state of black America in 2012. Topics included young people and voting, the economy, and social media. After their discussion they answered audience members' ques…

African American writers participated in a roundtable discussion titled, “Impact of Katrina and 911 on Literature by Black Writers.” They talked about issues of race and class brought out in…

Wayne Dawkins moderates a discussion on political writing from an African-American perspective. The panelists talked about topics including transmitting history to the younger generation, ch…

In a forum titled “From Blues to Bop to Hip-hop,” presented as part of a symposium on author Langston Hughes, participants talked about the impact of Hughes' literary form and written word o…