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Author Jason Riley talked about his book, False Black Power, and his view that “black political power” had failed to produce significant results for African Americans.

Lillian Faderman talked about her book, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, in which she chronicles the gay revolution from the 1950s, when homosexuality was considered mentally…

Evan Pritchard talked about his book, Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York. In his book, Mr. Pritchard describes the history of the native peoples of the Hudson River Valley.…

David Grann talked about his book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, in which he recalls the murders of members of the Osage Indian nation in the 1920s.…

Corey Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans, talked about his book and responded to viewer comments on African Americans and…

Panelists talked about the life and work of author James Baldwin. They spoke at the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri.

Panelists representing nonprofits and educators talked about the future of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). White House officials and staffers were among the audience…

Farhana Khera talked about President Trump’s proposed travel ban the environment for Muslims in the United States. Topics included the recent Portland, Oregon, commuter train attack against a…

The Harm Done is Transparent was one of the second-prize high school west division winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Senior Michelle Quan and junior Kris Carlos from Franklin High…

Dorothy Height talked about her life and career. Ms. Height served as president of the National Council of Negro Women from 1957 to 1998, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994. This…

Professor John McWhorter talked about his book Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America’s Lingua Franca, in which he examines the controversies around and perceptions of “sounding…

Cleve Jones, author of When We Rise: My Life in the Movement, talked about his book and responded to viewer comments on the gay rights movement. He was interviewed at the 22nd annual Los…

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question, “Do you support or oppose removing Confederate monuments?”

Professor Daniel Sharfstein talked about his book Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War, in which he recalls the Nez Perce Wars of the late 19th…

The Senate Judiciary Committee convened a hearing on ways to address the increasing number of religious hate crimes in the United States. The special counsel for religious discrimination…

Jeff Pegues talked about his book, Black and Blue: Inside the Divide Between the Police and Black America, focusing on the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color. Topics…

Jacqueline Pata talked about the Interior Department’s management of Native American land under Secretary Ryan Zinke.

Elizabeth Kelley highlighted rare cultural materials from the California Indian Library Collections and shared the history of California’s Native Americans. The collections feature Indian tribal history from…

Professor Jesse Dizard told the story behind the Nome Cult Trail. In 1863, 461 Native Americans from several tribes across Northern California were rounded up and forced to march over 100 miles from Chico to…

Sharla Fett, author of Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade; Benjamin Madley, author of An American Genocide: The…