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Book TV presented coverage of the 73rd annual National Book Awards. This event was hosted by the National Book Foundation in New York City.

Authors Margaret Burnham and Imani Perry discussed the American South and Jim Crow.

Princeton University African American studies professor and native Alabaman Imani Perry provided a history of America through her travels in the South. The Palm Beach Book Festival in Florid…

Authors talked about the “American dream.” The panelists were Eula Biss, author of Having and Being Had; Imani Perry, author of Breathe; Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can’t Sleep; and Stepha…

Princeton University Professor Imani Perry talked about such topics as African-American history and racial inequality. Her books include Prophets of the Hood, May We Forever Stand, and Breat…

Authors Jesse Jarnow (Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America), Tim Mohr (Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Ber…

Book TV presented coverage of the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards, which recognizes books in a range of categories, from biography and science writing to essays and poetry.

Authors Imani Perry, Sheryll Cashin, and Jabari Asim discussed race and identity.

Panelists at the Harlem Book Fair talked about race and politics. Samuel Roberts is the author of Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation, Nell Irvin Painte…

Panelists talked about contemporary moral and political questions, as well as James Baldwin’s statement that, “Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, th…

Panelists talked about the influence of the Black Arts Movement on contemporary literature. “The New Urban Aesthetics: The Black Arts Movement, Revised” was a panel at the 2014 Harlem Bo…