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SUMMARY:Author Talk: 'Freewater' with Amina Luqman-Dawson
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, is pleased to host a conversation with the 2023 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Amina Luqman-Dawson\, author of “Freewater.”  This is Luqman-Dawson’s debut novel for middle-grade students in which she creates an imaginary world in the Great Dismal Swamp’s Freewater\, pulling in and captivating the reader.  She shares her research\, provides insights into her characters\, and her thought-provoking story\, and takes readers on a fantastic adventure.  Don’t miss this incredible conversation. \nABOUT THE BOOK: “Freewater”\nWinner of the John Newbery Medal \nWinner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award  \nAn Indiebound Bestseller \nAward-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical\, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. \nUnder the cover of night\, 12-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada\, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life\, Homer knows there’s no turning back\, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines\, secret doorways\, and over a sky bridge\, the two find a secret community called Freewater\, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved people and some freeborn children\, Homer finds new friends\, almost forgetting where he came from. But when he learns of a threat that could destroy Freewater\, he crafts a plan to find his mother and help his new home. Deeply inspiring and loosely based on the history of maroon communities in the South\, this is a striking tale of survival\, adventure\, friendship\, and courage.  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Amina Luqman-Dawson\nAmina Luqman-Dawson is the author of the pictorial history book “Images of America: African Americans of Petersburg” (Arcadia Publishing) and “Freewater.” Her op-eds on race and popular culture have appeared in The Washington Post\, The San Francisco Chronicleand more. A proud mother of a 13-year-old son\, she and her family reside in Arlington\, VA.
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Music as Resistance with Jonathan Abrams
DESCRIPTION:CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY: MUSIC AS RESISTANCE\nAUTHOR TALK: JONATHAN ABRAMS \nPBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and WTTW/Chicago PBS\, is pleased to host a program with award-winning New York Times staff writer Jonathan Abrams\, who is the author of The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop. This program is offered in connection with Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World\, which just premiered on PBS earlier this year and can be streamed at PBS.org (check your local listing). Join us to learn more about the birth of Hip Hop culture and its impact on society. \n  \nThis program is also being offered in collaboration with ASALH’s Black History Month Festival\, which is focusing on Black Resistance. The program will explore Hip Hop as music as resistance. \nABOUT THE BOOK: THE COME UP: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE RISE OF HIP HOP\nThe music that would come to be known as hip-hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now\, fifty years later\, it’s the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century\, hip-hop and its groundbreaking DJs and artists—nearly all of them people of color from some of America’s most overlooked communities—pushed the boundaries of music to new frontiers\, while transfixing the country’s youth and reshaping fashion\, art\, and even language. \nAnd yet\, the stories of many hip-hop pioneers and their individual contributions in the pre-Internet days of mixtapes and word of mouth are rarely heard—and some are at risk of being lost forever. Now\, in The Come Up\, the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Abrams offers the most comprehensive account so far of hip-hop’s rise\, a multi-decade chronicle told in the voices of the people who made it happen. In more than three hundred interviews conducted over three years\, Abrams has captured the stories of the DJs\, executives\, producers\, and artists who both witnessed and themselves forged the history of hip-hop. Masterfully combining these voices into a seamless symphonic narrative\, Abrams traces how the genre grew out of the resourcefulness of a neglected population in the South Bronx\, and from there how it flowed into New York City’s other boroughs\, and beyond—from electrifying live gatherings\, then on to radio and vinyl\, below to the Mason-Dixon Line\, west to Los Angeles through gangster rap and G-funk\, and then across generations. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: JONATHAN ABRAMS\nJonathan Abrams is an award-winning staff reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of two previous books\, Boys Among Men and All the Pieces Matter. A graduate of the University of Southern California\, Abrams was formerly a staff writer at Bleacher Report\, Grantland\, and the Los Angeles Times. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR: ANGEL IDOWU\nAngel Idowu currently serves as the JCS Fund of the DuPage Foundation Arts Correspondent for WTTW’s Chicago Tonight\, Black Voices and Latino Voices. A Chicago native\, she is also VP of Archives for the National Association of Black Journalists Chicago Chapter\, a mentor with LINK Unlimited\, a developing screenwriter\, runs her own production company\, FoomiLOLA Media\, and heads a nonprofit geared toward art education resources. . She received her Master’s in Journalism from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. \nABOUT THE SHOW: FIGHT THE POWER\n“Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World” is an incredible narrative of struggle\, triumph and resistance that will be brought to life through the lens of an art form that has chronicled the emotions\, experiences and expressions of Black and Brown communities: Hip Hop. In the aftermath of America’s racial and political reckoning in 2020\, the perspectives and stories shared in Hip Hop are key to understanding injustice in the U.S. over the last half-century.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-music-as-resistance-with-jonathan-abrams/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Zora Neale Hurston and Black History Month with Ibram X. Kendi\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY: ZORA NEALE HURSTON\nAUTHOR TALK: IBRAM X. KENDI\, PH.D. \nPBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, is pleased to host a program with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi\, who recently adapted Zora Neale Hurston’s Magnolia Flower and soon-to-be-released The Making of Butterflies. The program is offered in connection with the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming A Space on PBS.  Join us to gain insights into these wonderful children’s books that introduce Zora Neale Hurston folk tales to audiences of all ages. \nThis program is also being offered in collaboration with ASALH’s Black History Month Festival. \nABOUT THE BOOK: MAGNOLIA FLOWER\nBorn to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears\, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world\, she longs to connect with others\, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free\, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one’s heart. The acclaimed writer of several American classics\, Zora Neale Hurston wrote this stirring folktale brimming with poetic prose\, culture\, and history. It was first published as a short story in The Spokesman in 1925 and later in her collection Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (2020). \nTenderly retold by #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi\, Magnolia Flower is a story of a transformative and radical devotion between generations of Indigenous and Black people in America. With breathtaking illustrations by Loveis Wise\, this picture book reminds us that there is no force strong enough to stop love. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK: THE MAKING OF BUTTERFLIES\nFirst Folktale from the creators of Magnolia Flower\, Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi\, about the origin of butterflies. The Creator wuz all finished and thru makin’ de world. \nBut soon\, the Creator finds themselves flying through the sky\, making gorgeous butterflies of every color\, shape\, and size. Find out why butterflies were made in Zora Neale Hurston’s stunning and layered African American folktale retold by #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author Ibram X. Kendi and illustrated by Kah Yangni. This accessible and sizable board book is perfect for introducing the youngest of readers to the beauty of Hurston’s storytelling and will spark curiosity in children about how things in our world came to be. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ibram X. Kendi\, Ph.D.\nIbram X. Kendi is a National Book Award–winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. His books include Antiracist Baby; Goodnight Racism; How to Be an Antiracist; and How to Raise an Antiracist. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. In 2020\, Time magazine named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He has also been awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. \nABOUT THE SHOW: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE\nRaised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville\, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance\, best remembered for her novel\, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles\, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean\, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people\, an unusual practice at the time\, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.  \nDirected by Tracy Heather Strain\, produced by Randall MacLowry and executive produced by Cameo George\, Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race\, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: History\, Race and Photography
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, will host a conversation on Monday\, May 17 at 8pm to discuss History\, Race and Photography\, highlighting the recently released book To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes.  This book is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes—men and women of African descent who were enslaved in South Carolina. The conversation will feature four extraordinary scholars; Ilisa Barbash\, Deborah Willis\, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham\, and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. \nThis important conversation will delve into the daguerreotypes that were made by photographer Joseph T. Zealy for Harvard professor Louis Agassiz in 1850 and were rediscovered at the Peabody Museum in 1976. Since that time\, the images have drawn worldwide interest\, provoking wide-ranging interpretations and raising critical questions about the history and conditions of slavery\, racism\, representation\, and identity.  The conversation will examine the role photography plays in discussing race and our history. \nAbout Contributor & Editor \nIlisa Barbash is the curator of visual anthropology at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. She co-directed the films In and Out of Africa (1992) and Sweetgrass (2009)\, which was nominated as best documentary film for the Independent Spirit Awards\, Gotham Award\, IDA Documentary Award\, and Cinema Eye Awards and was selected for the U.S. State Department and the University of Southern California’s 2012 American Documentary Showcase. She co-wrote Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Video (1997) and co-edited The Cinema of Robert Gardner (2007). Barbash’s book Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari (Peabody Museum Press\, 2016) was the recipient of the Society for Visual Anthropology’s 2017 John Collier Junior Award for visual excellence in the use of still photography. \nDeborah Willis\, Ph.D.\, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences\, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis\, Africana Studies\, where she teaches courses on Photography & Imaging\, iconicity\, and cultural histories visualizing the black body\, women\, and gender. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories\, visual culture\, the photographic history of Slavery and Emancipation; contemporary women photographers and beauty. She received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Willis is the author of Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present; and co-author of The Black Female Body A Photographic History; Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery; and Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (both titles an NAACP Image Award Winner). Professor Willis’s curated exhibitions include: “In Pursuit of Beauty” at Express Newark; “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” at the International Center of Photography and “Reframing Beauty: Intimate Moments” at Indiana University. Since 2006 she has co-organized thematic conferences exploring imaging the black body in the West such as the conference titled Black Portraiture[s] which was held in Johannesburg in 2016. She has appeared and consulted on media projects including documentary films such as Through A Lens Darkly and Question Bridge: Black Males\, a transmedia project\, which received the ICP Infinity Award 2015\, and American Photography\, PBS Documentary. \n  \nAbout the Contributors \nEvelyn Brooks Higginbotham\, Ph.D. is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She became the national president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in January 2016. Higginbotham began her teaching career as a public school teacher before moving to the university setting.  She has also taught on the faculties of Dartmouth College\, the University of Maryland\, and the University of Pennsylvania.  At the special invitation of Duke University\, she taught at the Duke Law School in 2010-2011 as the inaugural John Hope Franklin Professor of American Legal History. \nHigginbotham earned her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in American History\, her M.A. from Howard University\, and her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A pioneering scholar in African American women’s history\, she is the author of the prizewinning book Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church 1880-1920. She is also co-editor with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, of the African American National Biography\, now in its second edition (2013). \nHigginbotham is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. Most notably in September 2015\, she received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama at the White House for “illuminating the African American journey.” In March 2015 she was named one of the “Top 25 Women in Higher Education” by Diverse Magazine. \n  \nSarah Elizabeth Lewis is an associate professor at Harvard University in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of African and African American Studies. She is the founder of the Vision and Justice Project. Lewis has published essays on race\, contemporary art\, and culture\, with forthcoming publications including a book on race\, whiteness\, and photography (Harvard University Press\, 2021)\, Vision and Justice (Random House)\, an anthology on the work of Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press\, 2021)\, and an article focusing on the groundwork of contemporary arts in the context of Stand Your Ground Laws (Art Journal\, Winter 2020). In 2019\, she became the inaugural recipient of the Freedom Scholar Award\, presented by The Association for the Study of African American Life and History to honor Lewis for her body of work and its “direct positive impact on the life of African-Americans.” \n  \nPhoto Credits: Ilisa Barbash photo by Kris Snibbe © President and Fellows of Harvard College and Sarah’s is photo credit: Stu Rosner. The book’s cover credit is: Cover of To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes. (Peabody Museum Press/Aperture\, 2020). With artwork by Carrie Mae Weems. Photograph by Fabrizio Amoroso/Aperture. \n 
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/history-race-and-photography/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: History of Black Education
DESCRIPTION: \nAuthor Talk on Education PBS Books\, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, presents their author Jarvis Givens\, and scholars Cornel West and Brandon Terry discussing the history of Black education in the US sparked by Givens’ new book  Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. \nAbout the Book \nGivens’ new book Fugitive Pedagogy journeys through the subversive history of black education\, and it uses the life of famed educator Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) to elevate the political and intellectual contributions made by teachers to the long black freedom struggle.\n\nAbout the Conversation\nProfessors Jarvis Givens and Cornel West will discuss the life of Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) as a student\, teacher\, and education leader. But\, as Givens shows in his new book\, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (Harvard University Press\, 2021)\, Woodson was the product of longstanding subversive traditions among black schoolteachers\, the educators who taught him and those whom he worked alongside. Givens and West will discuss why black teachers were so central to the long black freedom movement\, and what lessons we might glean from their legacy as we search for meaningful education today. This conversation will be moderated by Professor Brandon Terry.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-history-of-black-education/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk for Kids: Cozbi Cabrera
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) presents their Trailblazing American Women Writers featuring children’s author Cozbi Cabrera.  \nAbout the Author\nCozbi Cabrera is the illustrator of several books\, including the picture book Beauty\, Her Basket\, which Publishers Weekly called “a quiet treasure” in a starred review. Her work is featured in her eponymous shop and atelier in Brooklyn. She lives in New York City. To learn more about Cabrera\, please visit her at Cozbi.com. \nAbout the Book\nA Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honor Book \nMama’s love is brighter than the sun\, even on the rainiest of days. This celebration of a mother-daughter relationship is perfect for sharing with little ones! \nOn a rainy day when the house smells like cinnamon and Papa and Luca are still asleep\, when the clouds are wearing shadows and the wind paints the window with beads of water\, I want to be everywhere Mama is. \nWith lyrical prose and a tender touch\, the Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honor Book Mama and Me is an ode to the strength of the bond between a mother and a daughter as they spend a rainy day together. \n\nThis event is brought to you in part through the partnership with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). Learn more about ASALH.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-for-kids-cozbi-cabrera/
LOCATION:Facebook Live
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SUMMARY:Poetry Author Talk: Dwayne Reed
DESCRIPTION:\nIn celebration of Poetry Month and in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, meet with “America’s Favorite Rapping Teacher” Dwayne Reed to hear all about Simon B. Rhymin’. Inspired by the children he teaches and his hometown of Chicago\, Dwayne has a passion for education and music. Using the power of rap and rhyme\, Dwayne shows us that even the underdog can make a difference.  The event will occur on Wednesday\, April 14 at 5pm ET on PBS Books Facebook Live and Youtube pages. \nAbout the Author\nDwayne Reed is a Chicago teacher\, whose viral back-to-school music video “Welcome to the 4th Grade” took the internet by storm. His debut novel\, Simon B. Rhymin’ \, inspires young readers everywhere to use their voice to create change within their communities. When he’s not writing\, rapping\, or teaching\, Dwayne can be found presenting at educator conferences across the U.S. or loving on his beautiful wife\, Simone. \n\n  \n  \nAbout the Book\nEleven-year-old  Simon  Barnes  dreams  of  becoming  a  world-famous  rapper  that  everyone  calls  Notorious D.O.G. But  for  now\,  he’s just a  Chicago  fifth  grader who’s grader who’s small for his age and afraid to use his voice. \nSimon prefers to lay low at school  and at home\, even  though he’s constantly  spitting  rhymes in his head. But when his new  teacher assigns  the class an oral presentation on something  that affects  their community\, Simon must  face his  fears of  talking to people when he decides  to  focus  on the homeless population in his neighborhood. \nWith some help from an unexpected ally and his friends\, will Simon gain the confidence to rap his way to an A and prove that one kid can make a difference  in his ‘hood.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/poetry-author-talk-dwayne-reed/
LOCATION:Facebook Live
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