For years I have been wondering when someone would write a book about Constance Baker Motley, one of the most consequential activists in the modern-day...
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18 October 2022
Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Philip Metres is poet, scholar, translator, essayist, playwright, and peacebuilder. He is the...
10 July 2022
This past June 17 was the fiftieth anniversary of the break in of the Watergate Hotel. A surfeit of books have been written about this sorry episode in...
20 February 2022
What an adorable photo on the cover of this book! The slender, handsome boy is all of ten years old; I have socks older than that. Yet he also looks...
02 October 2021
It is entirely within the realm of possibility that hundreds of thousands of people have seen the amazing work of Ernest Withers, but didn’t know it. He was...
22 November 2020
Last year, I had a conversation about forgiveness with a friend who grew up in Jim Crow Nashville. He opined that black people forgive white people too much...