A Program of Virginia Humanities
Leland Melvin (Chasing Space) will speak at the Read & Lead Lunch on March 21, 2018.
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, Cate Lineberry has had to cancel her participation. Barbara Bellows (Two Charlestonians at War), John Bicknell (Lincoln’s Pathfinder), and Cate Lineberry (Be Free or Die) discuss their recent books, histories from the Civil War era that provide new and valued insights into the counterpoint of two soldiers from Charleston, resounding impacts of political campaigns, and Robert Smalls’ triumphant choice to free himself and his family from slavery.
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Tags: African-American, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, History
Due to winter weather-related closures, this program has been canceled. Poet Remica Bingham-Risher (Starlight & Error), fiction writer Lisa Ko (The Leavers), and young adult novelist Nic Stone (Dear Martin) discuss race, gender, and identity across genres, offering perspectives on immigration, family, and police brutality, among other topics, encouraging thoughtful dialogue within our community.
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Tags: African-American, Asian-American, Book Club Picks, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Education / Teaching, Family / Aging, Fiction, Gender, History, Language / Culture / Folklife, Nonfiction, Poetry
Due to winter weather-related closures, this program has been canceled. 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 will include dancing, drumming, singing, and lots of audience participation.
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Tags: African-American, Arts, Music, StoryFest / Youth
Due to winter weather-related closures, this program has been canceled. Lamar Giles (Overturned), Jason Reynolds (Long Way Down), and Nic Stone (Dear Martin) discuss their acclaimed fiction for young readers, the challenges and opportunities facing writers of color, and the decisions involved in writing about race, social justice, gun violence, and other tough topics for teens and adults.
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Due to winter weather-related closures, this program has been canceled. Join urban farmer and food justice activist Karen Washington (Letters to a Young Farmer) for a community conversation and story telling about food, farming, identity, and equity.
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Barry Bergey and Tom Pich (Folk Masters) discuss their tribute to folk artists who have been named National Heritage Fellows, the highest honor the U.S. government awards to traditional artists, with Virginia state folklorist Jon Lohman. National Heritage Fellows Phil Wiggins and Sherman Holmes will perform with Almeta Ingram-Miller, Cora Harvey Armstrong, and Jared Pool.
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Tags: African-American, American Indian, Arts, Exhibit, Folklife, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Language / Culture / Folklife, Music, Nonfiction, Southern / Appalachian
Theo Emery (Hellfire Boys) and Will Englund (March 1917) discuss their work of the Great War era, delving into world-changing impacts of small decisions, technological innovations, social injustices and mores, as the early twentieth century faced the consequences of war.
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Tags: African-American, Current Affairs / World Affairs / War, Global, History
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Richard Reeves has had to cancel his participation. Mehrsa Baradaran, (The Color of Money), Keith Payne (The Broken Ladder) and Richard V. Reeves, author of (Dream Hoarders) discuss political, societal, and economic forces behind economic inequality, why the damage of inequality is widespread, and how it affects us all.
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Authors Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington (The Cadaver King and The Country Dentist), Brandon L. Garrett (End of Its Rope), and Bill Sizemore (A Far, Far Better Thing) discuss their work, exposing critical fractures in our American criminal justice system. John Grisham moderates.
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, Karen Washington has had to cancel her participation. Tess Taylor (Work & Days) and Karen Washington (Letters to a Young Farmer) discuss the intersection of farming and verse, and the connections that may be made through food and writing.
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Rachel Howzell Hall (City of Saviors) discusses her latest title in the series featuring LAPD detective Elouise Norton.
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Tags: African-American, Fiction
Join Michael W. Twitty (The Cooking Gene) and UVa professors Gertrude Fraser and Lisa Shutt for a discussion on race, power, cultural appropriation, and cultural diffusion in the world of Southern food writing and culinary politics.
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Tags: African-American, Biography / Memoir, History, LGBTQ, Southern / Appalachian
Authors Sheryll Cashin (Loving), Margaret Edds (We Face the Dawn) and Julian Heyter (The Dream is Lost) discuss their histories of interracial intimacy, the legal struggle for racial equality in education, and implementation of voters’ rights and mobilization, specific to the civil rights struggles faced in Virginia.
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NEW VENUE—Ibram X. Kendi (Stamped from the Beginning), one of the nation’s most prolific and accomplished young professors of race, writing and speaking to both scholarly and general audiences, delivers a keynote lecture.
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Kelley Fanto Deetz (Bound to the Fire) and Adrian Miller (The President’s Kitchen Cabinet) discuss histories of food and eating, from enslaved cooks to the personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every first family since George and Martha Washington.
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Tags: African-American, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, History, Nonfiction
Garnette Cadogan, Kima Jones, and Kevin Young discuss their contributions to The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, exploring and reacting to race in America in a present-day response to James Baldwin’s 1963 examination, The Fire Next Time.
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Henry Browne (Vanishing History: Ruins in Virginia), Andrew Lichtenstein and Alex Lichtenstein (Marked, Unmarked, Remembered), and Brandon Thibodeaux (In That Land of Perfect Day) explore American stories through photography of Virginian ruins, significant sites from America’s traumatic past, and people and landscapes from the Mississippi Delta.
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Michael W. Twitty (The Cooking Gene) wanted to know more about his roots and heritage, so he went on a multi-state, international journey to discover his place in Southern food history and his place in the American story. Searching for his food roots and family routes across the South, he discovered a way to bring all Southerners to the table in a spirit of culinary celebration and spiritual and racial reconciliation. He will share his story in this solo presentation.
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Nin Andrews (Miss August), Tyehimba Jess (Olio), and David Wojahn (For the Scribe) read from their recent collections.
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Tags: African-American, Headliners, Poetry, Social Justice
Hermione Hoby (Neon in Daylight), Irène Mathieu (orogeny), Nathaniel Rich (King Zeno), and SJ Sindu (Marriage of a Thousand Lies) give short readings of their work during this annual “late-night” Festival program. Just steps away from the Omni Hotel, enjoy the work of acclaimed emerging writers in an informal setting, with music, drinks, and mingling.
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Tags: African-American, Arts, Fiction, Food / Beer / Wine / Travel, Gender, History, Language / Culture / Folklife, LGBTQ, Music, Nonfiction, Poetry, Publishing / Books / Writing, Southern / Appalachian
Join hundreds of other Crime Wave readers for Saturday morning brunch with Attica Locke, the New York Times bestselling author of Bluebird, Bluebird and winner of the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.
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Tags: African-American, Crime Wave, Fiction, Headliners
Lesa Cline-Ransome (Before She was Harriet), James Ransome (Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You), and Carole Boston Weatherford (Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library) read from and discuss their historical picture books for children, which tell important stories of African-American heroes in the Civil Rights and social justice movements.
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Tami Charles (Like Vanessa), Brenda Rufener (Where I Live), and Ismée Williams (Water in May) discuss their young adult novels featuring strong female characters standing up to life’s challenges, from homelessness or pregnancy to racism.
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Tags: African-American, Fiction, StoryFest / Youth
Authors Andrew Kahrl (Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline) and Wayne Wiegand (The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism) discuss their work. Robert Williams, who protested at the Danville Public Library in 1960, will also participate.
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Tags: African-American, History, Nonfiction, Social Justice
Michael Twitty, award-winning food writer, independent scholar, and culinary historian, who describes himself as outside the mainstream and “four time blessed” – “large of body, gay, African American and Jewish,” will provide a period cooking demonstration and interpretation, cooking over an open fire.
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Angela Hattery and Earl Smith (Policing Black Bodies) and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (How We Get Free) discuss their work, exploring systems of structural racism as well as potential and radical strategies to work for change.
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The Southern Environmental Law Center’s Reed Award event features J. Drew Lanham (The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature) and readings by the winners of the 2018 Reed Environmental Writing Award, which recognizes excellent writing on the Southern environment in book-length nonfiction and journalism.
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Tags: African-American, Biography / Memoir, Environment / Science
Social consciousness, social conscience with Christopher Kempf (Late in the Empire of Men), Kamilah Aisha Moon (Starshine & Clay), and Bao Phi (Thousand Star Hotel).
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Tags: African-American, Asian-American, Global, Poetry, Social Justice
Deborah Heiligman (Vincent and Theo) and Ray Anthony Shepard (Now or Never) discuss their nonfiction books for young readers featuring historical figures.
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, Leesa Cross-Smith has had to cancel her participation. Leesa Cross-Smith (Whiskey & Ribbons) and Tayari Jones (An American Marriage) discuss their novels and how life, and love, continues beyond separation.
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Tags: African-American, Fiction, Social Justice
Kathleen Belew (Bring the War Home), Nancy MacLean (Democracy in Chains), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (How We Get Free), and Vegas Tenold (Everything You Love Will Burn) discuss the root causes and champions of the alt-right, and the wide-ranging impacts of the movement on American social equality and democracy. Jamelle Bouie moderates.
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Tayari Jones (An American Marriage) discusses her newest novel which examines the forced separation of a married couple, when being black leads to wrongful conviction and incarceration, and how love responds. In conversation with Lisa Lucas.
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Tags: African-American, Fiction, Social Justice
2017 National Book Awards finalists Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Never Caught) and David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon) join 2017 National Book Awards longlisted author Kevin Young (Bunk) in a discussion of the stories and facts their books bring to light, the hidden impacts of racism and social inequality in America that their work speaks to, and ultimately, the pursuit of truth in their award-winning nonfiction. National Book Foundation executive director Lisa Lucas moderates.
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The Charlottesville Chapter of The Links Incorporated presents its fifteenth 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
2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recipients Peter Ho Davies (The Fortunes), Tyehimba Jess (Olio), and Margot Lee Shetterly (Hidden Figures), accompanied in conversation with Award jury member Rita Dove, will share their writing and insights about race and culture, with a particular focus on the August 2017 events that took place in Charlottesville.
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