Reading / Book Discussion
Reading: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Virtual Zoom EventAnnual community reading of an amended version of Frederick Douglass' influential July 5, 1852 speech.
Black Voices Book Group
Virtual EventThe group discusses "Black Cloud Rising" by David Wright Falade.
Book Talk: Happy Dreams of Liberty with R. Isabela Morales
Morven Museum & Garden 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesHistorian R. Isabela Morales discusses her book about an American family in slavery and freedom.
“Kindred” discussion
Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesThe Fiction Book Group discusses "Kindred" by Octavia Butler.
Black Voices Book Group
Virtual Event"Deacon King Kong" by James McBride is the book to be discussed.
Bayard Rustin Book Release Celebration and Conversation
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice 12 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesRelease of new book Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics.
Reading by Ling Ma & Sandra Cisneros
Lewis Arts Complex (Princeton University) 120 Alexander Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesReadings by authors Ling Ma and Sandra Cisneros
Rev. Dr. Kirk Johnson Book Signing and Discussion on Race, Medicine and Economics
Christ Congregtion 50 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJRev. Dr. Kirk Johnson Book Signing and Discussion on Race, Medicine and Economics in conjunction with Black History Month.
Discussion of “Bitter Crop,” a biography of jazz legend and American cultural icon Billie Holiday
Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesPaul Alexander discusses and signs his recently released book "Bitter Crop," a biography of jazz legend and American cultural icon Billie Holiday, the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades.
Princeton University Black History Month Book Talk
Carl A. Fields Center for Equality + Cultural Understanding, Princeton University 58 Prospect Avenue, Princeton, NJ, United StatesPrinceton University Dean of the Faculty, Gene Jarrett, will discuss his book, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird.
Yuri Doolan Discussing “The First Amerasians”
Green Hall Princeton University Princeton, United StatesThe First Amerasians tells the powerful, oftentimes heartbreaking, story of how Americans created and used the concept of the “Amerasian” to remove thousands of mixed race children from their Korean mothers in US-occupied South Korea.