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Kendra Allen, author of When You Learn the Alphabet, and and Jennine Cap Crucet, author of My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, talked about their books on race…

Book TV attended the Black Books Matter book party featuring White House correspondent April Ryan, author of Under Fire; Angel Rich, author of The History of the Black Dollar; and publisher…

Carlotta Walls was fourteen years old and Terrence Roberts fifteen years old when they entered Little Rock Central High School on September 23, 1957. The two members of the “Little Rock Nine” recalled their…

The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the oversight of policing practices. Witnesses included Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, who died after a New York police officer placed…

Bioethicist Harriet Washington talked about her book, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, in which she detailed how environmental hazards…

In his book, Reclaiming the Black Past, author Pero Dagbovie explains how black history is misused in popular culture and what can be done to change it. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a…

Derrick Johnson, NAACP president, talked about some of the issues most important to the NAACP in the 2020 election, including voting discrimination.

Dorothy Butler Gilliam, who in 1961 became the first African American reporter at the Washington Post, talked about the hurdles she overcame during her career.

President Trump delivered remarks at the 2019 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) conference. He spoke of his administration’s commitment to making HBCUs a…

Alice Marie Johnson discussed her time in prison and President Trump’s commutation of her sentence in 2018.

University of Chicago Professor Eve Ewing discussed her book, 1919, and some of her other works.

Tuskegee Airman Harry Stewart talked about his book, Soaring to Glory, in which he recalled his life and experiences in combat during World War II.

In February of 1968, 1,100 African-American Memphis sanitation workers went on strike. Historian Ryan Jones explained the events leading up to the strike and the role it played in bringing Martin Luther…

The Institute of the Black World 21st Century hosted a national town hall meeting on gentrification at the New Jersey Institute for Technology in Newark. Speakers included economist…

Los Angeles Times reporters joined the National Press Club Journalism Institute to talk about the newspaper’s coverage of the death of rapper Nipsey Hussle, who in March 2019 was fatally shot in…

Adam Bradley, associate English professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and John Callahan, literary executor of the estate of Ralph Ellison, presented Ralph Ellison’s posthumous…

Black viewers only responded to the question, “Who is your choice for president in 2020?”

In 1941, a developer built the Birwood Wall in northwest Detroit that was meant to separate white and black homeowners in the city. Historian and tour guide Jamon Jordan showed the wall, which runs north to 8 Mile…

Journalist Dani McClain talked about her book, We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, in which she shared her thoughts on the political power of black women.

The first race riots in Detroit happened in 1833. Those riots were sparked by the imprisonment of Thornton and Rutha Blackburn, an African American couple who had escaped from slavery. Historian and tour…