Videos

Bestselling author David Grann talked about a mutiny aboard the British naval ship The Wager off the coast of South America in the mid-18th century and the court martial that followed. This …

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black talked about Harriet Tubman’s role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against Confederates in South Carolina wh…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Scott Shane recounted the life of Thomas Smallwood, a slave who bought his freedom and helped hundreds to escape slavery. The Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore h…

Journalist and attorney Eboni Williams offered her thoughts on celebrating “Blackness” in America. Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore hosted this event.

Photojournalist Devin Allen talked about his coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and the inspiration that came from Gordon Parks, who photophraphed an earlier generation of civil rig…

Atlantic Magazine writer and former ESPN SportsCenter co-anchor Jemele Hill spoke about her life and career in journalism. The Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore hosted this event.

Tufts University historian Kerri Greenidge talked about the Grimke family and the Black children fathered by the slave-holding older brother of the well-known abolitionist sisters, Sarah and…

George Washington University professor and emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen offered a first-hand account of working in public health. Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore hosted this virtual ev…

White House reporter April Ryan provided an inside look at covering the Trump administration.

Rutgers University history professor Rachel Devlin looked at the desegregation of American public schools through the actions of young women throughout the country.

Jessie Morgan-Owens talked about her book, Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement, in which she recounted the life of Mary Mildred Williams, a…

New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean recounted the Los Angeles Public Library Fire of 1986.

Political communication scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson examined Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Janet Dewart Bell provided a history of African American women in the Civil Rights Movement.

Dr. Lydia Kang described medical treatments and cures throughout history.

Mychal Smith talked about his book, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, A Young Black Man’s Education, about his life and political education as a young black man in America.

Diane Guerrero talked about her book, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided, about growing up in the U.S. with undocumented parents. She talked about what life is like for children of un…

Professor Mitchell Duneier talked about his book, Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea, about the origin and history of the “ghetto.”

Michael Ross, history professor at the University of Maryland, talked about his book, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law and Justice in the Reconstruction Era, about the 1870 k…

George Liebmann talked about his book, The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy, in which he chronicles the life of American diplomat, John Negrop…