The Autobiography of Medgar Evers
Myrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable talked about the book they edited, The Autobiography Of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches,…
1,109 viewsMyrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable talked about the book they edited, The Autobiography Of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches,…
1,109 viewsEdwidge Danticat talked about her book Brother, I’m Dying, published by Knopf. The book tells the story of her uncle Joseph, a Baptist minister who took care of her as a child in Haiti. Jose…
865 viewsProfessor Kenan talked about his book, The Fire This Time, published by Melville. He described African American identity and politics forty-five years after James Baldwin’s publication of Th…
353 viewsSpike Lee talked about his biography, as told to Kaleem Aftab, Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It, published by W. W. Norton. In the book he chronicled his career as a film d…
879 viewsDamali Ayo talked about her book How to Rent a Negro, published by Lawrence Hill Books. In this satirical look at race relations the author argues that white people should be charged fees fo…
26,700 viewsCity Councilman Chavous talked about his book, Serving Our Children: Charter Schools and the Reform of American Public Education, published by Capital Books, Inc. The outgoing D.C. Council …
65 viewsWilliam Cox interviewed Jayson Blair about his book, Burning Down My Master’s House: My Life at the New York Times, published by New Millennium Press. He described his career at the New York…
268 viewsManthia Diawara discussed his memoir We Won’t Budge: An African Exile in the World, published by Basic Civitas. The title is the name of a song from his home land of Mali that has become a …
198 viewsProfessor Cornel West spoke about the book he co-wrote with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country, published by Free Pre…
435 viewsC-SPAN spoke with shoppers at Karibu Books in Hyattsville, MD and asked them about their currently read books.
42 viewsC-SPAN spoke to shoppers at Karibu Books in Hyattsville, MD and asked them about the books they currently purchased or read.
37 viewsMr. Graham talked about his book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, published by Harper Perennial Library. The book examines the history and experiences of an elevated b…
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