A Program of Virginia Humanities
Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life, will speak at the annual Read & Lead Lunch on March 18, 2020.
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Tags: African American, Biography / Memoir, Book Club Picks, Headliners, Health / Mind / Body, Nonfiction, Sports / Outdoors / Animals
Poets Lauren Alleyne, (Honeyfish), Iréne Mathieu, (Grand Marronage), and Amy Woolard, (Neck of the Woods) read selected poems from their recent collections. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Language / Culture / Folklife, Poetry
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library’s Same Page community-wide reading series invites residents to discuss Jacqueline Woodson’s National Book Award winning memoir-in-verse, Brown Girl Dreaming. Woodson will read from her work and take community questions before signing books, which will be available for purchase onsite. For more about Same Page, visit jmrl.org/samepage. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Book Club Picks, Fiction, JMRL/Same Page, StoryFest / Youth
Photographers and writers Timothy Duffy (Blue Muse: Timothy Duffy’s Southern Photographs), Alex Harris and Margaret Sartor (co-authors of Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922), and Robert Schultz (co-author of War Memoranda) present striking photography, particular processes, and contemplations of barriers related to class and race and national origin. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Lillie Williams, with drummer Darrel Rose, will tell the stories of Anansi and the Sky Kingdom and Anansi Gives Wisdom to the World by Patricia C. McKissack. This story time will include dancing, drumming, singing, and lots of audience participation. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Music, StoryFest / Youth
Jacqueline Woodson, author of (Red at the Bone) will speak at the annual Literary Luncheon on March 19, 2020.
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Tags: African American, Book Club Picks, Fiction, Headliners
Poets Cam Awkward-Rich (Dispatch), Kate Daniels (In the Months of My Son’s Recovery), and Gregory Orr (The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write) read selected poems from their recent collections. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, LGBTQ, Poetry
Brennan Gould, executive director of the Charlottesville Albemarle Community Foundation, Martin Lehfeldt and Jamil Zainaldin (coauthors, The Liberating Promise of Philanthropy), and Ken Woodley (The Road to Healing) probe the transformative use of economic support as one tool to address historical inequalities, along with the challenges in developing that societal and financial backing. Exploring Southern history along with the uses of philanthropy and reparations, the discussion offers valuable stories for nonprofit organizations, board members, donors, and their communities. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Arts, History, Nonfiction, Social Justice, Southern / Appalachian
Tara Campbell (Midnight at the Organporium), Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes Into the Forest), and Rion Amilcar Scott (The World Doesn’t Require You) discuss their meditative, eye-opening, and at times bewitching short stories.
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Tags: African American, Fiction, Gender, Humor, Language / Culture / Folklife
Authors Lauren Casper (Loving Well in a Broken World), Kim McLarin (Womanish), and Katherine Wintsch (Slay Like a Mother) offer their perspectives and experiences on parenting young and grown children, loving well, achieving goals, and what it means to be a strong, loving woman today. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Biography / Memoir, Family / Aging, Health / Mind / Body, Spirituality / Religion
Authors Casey Cep (Furious Hours) and Emma Copley Eisenberg (The Third Rainbow Girl) discuss their examinations of violent crime and imperfect justice in rural communities and the overreaching impact felt by community members and those who came to investigate and report. These stunning books include courtroom drama, individuals whose lives were devoted to uncovering unachievable truths, and small towns terrorized by fear. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Book Club Picks, History, Nonfiction, Southern / Appalachian
Megan Angelo (Followers), Rion Amilcar Scott (The World Doesn’t Require You), and Deb Olin Unferth (Barn 8) discuss their satirical novels that use humor to challenge the status quo.
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Tags: African American, Environment / Science, Fiction, Health / Mind / Body, Humor, Language / Culture / Folklife
Authors Sara Collins (The Confessions of Frannie Langton) and Njelle Hamilton (Phonographic Memories) explore the Caribbean sources for their writing, considering history, music, and marginalized voices in fiction. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Fiction, Music, Publishing / Books / Writing
Authors Shonda Buchanan (Black Indian), Jaquira Diaz (Ordinary Girls), and Julia Koets (The Rib Joint) share stories of lives built beyond the impacts of physical and emotional abuse; addiction and addictive families; margins of mixed race, religion, and gender identity; and more. Each lyrically written, these extraordinary memoirs map a path forward. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, American Indian, Biography / Memoir, Gender, Latinx, LGBTQ
Sara Collins (The Confessions of Frannie Langton) discusses her debut novel, which The Guardian calls “a stunning debut.”
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Tags: African American, Fiction
Amitav Ghosh (Gun Island), Helon Habila (Travelers), and Mimi Lok (Last of Her Name) discuss their novels exploring personal and political impacts of contemporary diaspora.
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Tags: African American, Asian American, Book Club Picks, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Family / Aging, Fiction, Global, Language / Culture / Folklife
Kevin Allred (Ain’t I A Diva?) and Eric Nielson (Rap on Trial) discuss American black music and its strange juxtapositions from viral popularity, to layers of lyrics that explore gender, race, sexuality, and power, to our legal system’s use of rap lyrics to prosecute crime. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Law / Supreme Court, Music
Poets Franny Choi (Soft Science), Leah Naomi Green (The More Extravagant Feast), and Morgan Parker (Magical Negro) read from their new collections. Book sales and signing will follow. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Environment / Science, LGBTQ, Poetry
Virginia Humanities Fellows Karen Chase (Carrying Independence), Keith Clark (Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for Readers), and Charles Thompson (Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice In an Unsettled Land) share their most recent works. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Environment / Science, Fiction, Social Justice, Southern / Appalachian
Wesley Browne (Hillbilly Hustle), Gabriel Bump (Everywhere You Don’t Belong), and Aatif Rashid (Portrait of Sebastian Khan) discuss their novels which feature flawed characters in their full humanity, making their way as best as they can.
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Tags: African American, Fiction, Humor, Southern / Appalachian
Acclaimed poets Erika Meitner (Holy Moly Carry Me), Kiki Petrosino (White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia), and Brian Teare (Doomstead Days) read from and discuss their new collections of poetry. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Environment / Science, Headliners, Poetry, Southern / Appalachian
Cameron Awkward-Rich (Dispatch), Morgan Parker (Magical Negro), and Amy Woolard (Neck of the Woods) give readings of their poetry during this annual “late-night” Festival program.
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Tags: African American, Arts, Asian American, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Gender, Health / Mind / Body, LGBTQ, Poetry, Social Justice
Laura Lee Gulledge (The Dark Matter of Mona Starr), Maria Padian (How to Build a Heart), and Morgan Parker (Who Put This Song On?) discuss their young adult novels and graphic novel tackling questions of identity and mental health, for readers of all ages.
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Tags: African American, Comics / Graphic Novels, Family / Aging, Fiction, Health / Mind / Body, StoryFest / Youth
Authors Bettye Kearse (The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family) and Kevin Levin (Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth) share their deeply-researched works in a conversation about black genealogies—actual family histories that were denied and suppressed, and fictive historical tales that blossomed a hundred years after the Civil War. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Biography / Memoir, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, History
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America) and Charles King (Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Genre in the Twentieth Century) examine the reconstruction of our preconceptions of identity through the explorations of their subjects in cultures across America and around the globe. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Biography / Memoir, Global, Southern / Appalachian
Matt Stoller (Goliath) and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Race for Profit) discuss the perils of seemingly well-intentioned government policy shifts to promote access, stabilization, and development—and the disaster of the resulting discrimination, domination, and destruction. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Business, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, History
Lamar Giles (Not So Pure and Simple), NoNieqa Ramos (The Truth Is), and Brynne Rebele-Henry (Orpheus Girl) discuss their young adult novels for all ages, which tackle difficult topics, from sexuality and race to religion and family.
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Tags: African American, Family / Aging, Gender, Health / Mind / Body, Humor, Latinx, LGBTQ, StoryFest / Youth
Adriana Herrera (American Love Story), Mary Ann Marlowe (Dating by the Book), and Hope Ramsay (Summer on Moonlight Bay) discuss their contemporary romance novels that feature professional women making time in their lives to find love.
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Tags: African American, Latinx, Romance
Poets Ilya Kaminsky, (Deaf Republic), Jeanne Larsen, (What Penelope Chooses), and John Murillo, (Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry) read from their newest collections. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, Poetry
Amy Bass (One Goal), Michael Kranish (The World’s Fastest Man) and Michael Powell (Canyon Dreams) probe the capacity of sport to bridge gaps in culture and condition, which in turn forge connections to advance the integration of communities—and subsequent opportunities for marginalized individuals. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, American Indian, Sports / Outdoors / Animals
The Charlottesville Chapter of The Links Incorporated presents its sixteenth annual Celebration of the African American Literary Tradition, including brunch, musical and spoken word performances by community youth, a tribute to book festival authors, book sales and signing. Tickets required.
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Tags: African American, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
William Andrews (Slavery and Class in the American South), Daniel Thorp (Facing Freedom), and Nicole Myers Turner (Soul Liberty) share critical new studies of the lives of Southern blacks. Their works use slave narratives, land documents, local archives, church records, and geospatial mapping to unearth authentic accounts and provide new perspectives. FREE to attend and open to the public.
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Tags: African American, History, Southern / Appalachian, Spirituality / Religion
Gabriel Bump (Everywhere You Don’t Belong), Lindsay Lerman (I’m From Nowhere), and Aatif Rashid (Portrait of Sebastian Khan) discuss their novels about the trials and triumphs of self-discovery, including the first blush of adulthood as well as the re-discovery that comes after loss.
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Tags: African American, Family / Aging, Fiction, Humor, Language / Culture / Folklife, Spirituality / Religion
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