Videos

Journalist Victor Luckerson chronicled the rise and fall of Tulsa’s Greenwood District also known as “Black Wall Street” through the lens of the Goodwin family from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massa…

History professor Jeffrey Ogbar looked at the history of Atlanta and how Blacks there transformed the city into today’s ‘Black Mecca.’ The Atlanta Center hosted this event.

Cornell University professor Tamika Nunley looked at how enslaved women accused of capital crimes fared under the law in Virginia.

Chad Williams discussed the intersection of World War I and the fight for racial justice through the lens of early 20th century civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. This event took place …

Journalist Santi Holley looked at how the Shakur family shaped the Black liberation movement in America through activism, artistry and scholarship. Skylight Books in Los Angeles hosted this …

University of North Carolina history professor Blair Kelley spoke about the Black working class in America from slavery to present day. Rofhiwa Book Café in Durham, North Carolina, hosted th…

Yale University history professor David Blight recalled the life of public intellectual and orator, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895). He was joined in conversation by Eddie Glaude, chair of th…

Black Entertainment Television former CEO Debra Lee spoke about her career in the entertainment industry. The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., hos…

Ilyon Woo chronicled the enslaved couple William and Ellen Craft’s escape to freedom with Ellen posing as a wealthy, disabled white man traveling with William as “his” male slave. .

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed recalled the announcement of the end of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. This was a virtual event hosted by the Free Library of Philade…

Former Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker looked at the “Black Power” movement in 1966 and its impact on the civil rights movement during that time. Theodore Books in Oyster Bay, New York, hosted…

Kerri Greenidge (The Grimkes), Rachel Webster (Benjamin Banneker and Us), Kidada Williams (I Saw Death Coming), and Ilyon Woo (Master Slave, Husband Wife) discussed slavery in America and th…

Gayle Jessup White, public relations and community engagement officer at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, spoke about the efforts to have Sally Hemings recognized as a descendant of the Jeffer…

The Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Butcher (Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth) and the American Enterprise Institute’s Ian Rowe (Agency) discussed their books…

Harvard professor Donald Yacovone explored white supremacy ideology in the U.S. from its inception to present day. The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts, hosted this program.

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…

Authors Eddie Glaude (Begin Again) and Jon Meacham (His Truth Is Marching On) talked about the legacies of author James Baldwin and civil rights leader and former Representative John Lewis (…

Author Fatima Shaik provided a history of Economy Hall in New Orleans, which played a vital role in the social and political lives of the city’s Black residents in the 19th and 20th centurie…

Rev. Al Sharpton profiled lesser-known civil rights activists and how they impacted the movement. This was a virtual event hosted by the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

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…