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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk | ‘How The Word Is Passed’ with Clint Smith

PBS Books, in collaboration with Maryland Public Television, is hosting a conversation celebrating the Library of Congress National Book Festival with Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, to discuss his work and involvement in the festival. The author will be interviewed American Black Journal’s Stephen Henderson. About Clint Smith  Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the bestselling narrative nonfiction book, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America.” He is also the author of the [...]

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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk | ‘Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands’ with Kelly Lytle Hernández

About Kelly Lytle Hernández  Kelly Lytle Hernández is a professor of history, African American studies and urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she holds the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. A 2019 MacArthur fellowship recipient, she is the author of the award-winning books “Migra!” and “City of Inmates.” Hernández lives in Los Angeles. Featured at the 2022 National Book Festival is her latest work, “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands.” It is about the migrant rebels, the magonistas, that started [...]

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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk | ‘Blackout: A Novel’ with Dhonielle Clayton

About Dhonielle Clayton  Dhonielle Clayton is the New York Times bestselling author of The Belles series and the co-author of the Tiny Pretty Things duology, which was made into a Netflix original series. She is chief operating officer of the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books and owner of CAKE Literary. Clayton is one of the authors of “Blackout: A Novel,” which is featured at the 2022 National Book Festival and follows six Black teenagers during a blackout in New York City.  About the Library of Congress National Book Festival The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to [...]

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#LOCBookfest22 Author Talk: ‘Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us’ with Rachel Aviv

About Rachel Aviv  Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about medicine, education, criminal justice and other subjects. In 2022, she won a National Magazine Award for Profile Writing. A 2019 national fellow at New America, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. Aviv received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her work on her book “Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us," which is featured at the 2022 National Book Festival.  About The Library of Congress National Book Festival:  The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access [...]

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Panel Discussion | “The US and the Holocaust: A Michigan Perspective” with Historians and Community Builders

In coordination with the premiere of the new documentary film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein "The U.S. and the Holocaust," Detroit Public TV (DPTV) hosts live panel discussion in partnership with The Zekelman Holocaust Center, the Interfaith Leadership Council of Metropolitan Detroit and ADL Michigan.  The event "The U.S. and the Holocaust: A Michigan Perspective" includes video segments from the documentary, a message from filmmaker Ken Burns and a panel discussion with prominent leaders and historians addressing a range of topics raised by the documentary. The panel features: Catherine Cangany, director of the Jewish Historical Society, an [...]

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David Bornstein | Solutions Journalism Collaborative Summit Keynote Speaker

David Bornstein, co-founder and CEO of the Solutions Journalism Network, will kick off the Solutions Journalism Collaborative Summit by discussing the role Solutions Journalism can play in helping news organizations confront evolving challenges in the news around trust, audience engagement, equity and sustainability.

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Author Talk: ‘The US and the Holocaust: Building Bridges’ with Eboo Patel

In connection with The US and the Holocaust, PBS Books is pleased to present a conversation with Interfaith America’s Founder and President Eboo Patel, author of We Need to Build: Fieldnotes for Diverse Democracy. It is an inspirational guide for those who seek to promote positive social change and build a more diverse and just democracy. 

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‘Carrying Golden Threads’ with Michele Oka Doner | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

"Carrying Golden Threads" with Michele Oka Doner | Friday, September 23, 8 p.m. Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans six decades. Her work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, drawing, public art, functional objects, video, artist books, and costume and set design. She is well known for creating numerous permanent art installations throughout the United States, including Flight at Reagan International Airport, Arlington, VA, Radiant Site at the Herald Square MTA station, New York and the mile and quarter bronze and terrazzo concourse, A Walk [...]

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A Filmmaker Conversation | MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

PBS Books, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is pleased to host a conversation with internationally renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D., who is the executive producer, host and writer of MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE, with esteemed scholar Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D., who is the former past president of ASALH, on Wedneday, September 28 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT.

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