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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker spoke about her development as a writer and activist. The Dallas Museum of the Arts hosted this virtual program.

Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy discussed the word “nigger” and its various meanings and uses, and examines the controversies triggered by the word. Politics and Prose Bookstore…

Essayist Cathy Park Hong spoke about issues of race and identity as an Asian American in America. This virtual program was hosted by the Strand Bookstore in New York City.

Book TV presented coverage of the seventh annual Kirkus Prize, given by the literary publication Kirkus Reviews to authors of nonfiction, fiction, and young readers' books. This was a virtua…

Author and journalist Morgan Jerkins looked at her family history through the lens of the Great Migration, when 6 million black Americans left the South from 1916 to 1970. This was a virtual…

Rochelle Riley, Rae Paris, and Kiese Lamon discussed race in America.

Contributors to The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race participated in a panel discussion on race in America. “Jesamyn Ward and The Fire This Time” was a panel at the 2016…

Pamela Newkirk, author of Spectacle; Alexis Coe, author of Alice + Feda Forever, Kiese Laymon, author of How to Kill Yourself and Others in America, and Saeed Jones talked about the history …