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Bill Lightle talked about his book Made or Broken: Football and Survival in the Georgia Woods (TurnKey Press, 2004). He tells the story of how the Graves Springs high school football camp pl…

Robert Moore talked about his book They Always Said I Would Marry a White Girl: Coming to Grips with Race in America (Hamilton Books; March 29, 2007). He was interviewed by the C-SPAN Bus cr…

Eric Arnesen talked about the book he edited, The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation, published by University of Illinois Press. The book contains essays dealing …

Sharon Robinson, daughter of Jackie Robinson, talked about why she wrote a youth biography about her father, Promise to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America.

Jack Bass was interviewed by the Book TV Bus at the South Carolina Reading Festival. He talked about the Orangeburg Massacre. The Massacre was a police shooting into a crowd of unarmed, blac…

Melvin Blackman talked about his book Urban Suicide: The Enemy We Choose Not To See... Crisis in Black America, published by Amber Books. He was interviewed by the BookTV Bus crew at the Bro…

Mary Poole was interviewed about her book The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State, published by The University of North Carolina Press.

Arnold Rampersad talked about his biography, Ralph Ellison. He also responded to audience members' questions.

Bernestine Singley talked about the book she edited, When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront their Personal Histories, published by Lawrence Hill Books.

Mr. Abdul-Jabbar, former professional basketball player, talked about the book he co-authored, On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance, published by Simon and S…

The C-SPAN BookTV Bus crew toured the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center.

Tavis Smiley, author of Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America, talks with Taylor Branch, author of At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 19…

Professor Belgrave was interviewed about the book she co-wrote with Kevin Allison, African American Psychology: From Africa to America, published by Sage Publications USA.

Bertha Davis was interviewed about her book Growing up in Mississippi, published by Infinity Publishing. The interview took place in the BookTV Bus while at the 3rd annual Indianapolis Bo…

Grif Stockley was interviewed about his book Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas, published by University Press of Mississippi. Ms. Bates was the only woman allowed to speak in…

Joyce King was interviewed about her book Growing Up Southern: White Men I Met Along the Way, published by Avenue Publishers. The book is the story of her life told by means of vignettes of…

Julie Rainbow was interviewed about the book she edited Standing the Test of Time: Love Stories of African American Elders, published by Pilgrim Press. She talked about the story of the Eng…