Prior to our annual black history luncheon, a featured authors event which is free and open to the public allows individuals to interact with authors from across the nation who have written on a variety of issues related to African Americans and other topics. A variety of book types will also be represented, ranging from children’s books to scholarly works.
Note: To participate in the Annual Luncheon which follows at 12:15 p.m., you must purchase tickets. For more information,click here.
Featured Authors listed below:
- Donovan Anderson Mango in a Tree
- Phyllis Banks The Runaway Books
- Andrew Billingsley Yearning to Breathe Free
- Vera Blake Fearless Conversations
- Heather Buchanan Remembrance
- Lynn Calvin I Have Two Daddies: An Earthly Daddy and A Heavenly Daddy
- Yasmin Carty Proverbs and Praises with Meanings
- Priscilla Clark Just Keep On Livin’
- Melissa Cooper Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race and the American Imagination
- Judy Davis Pioneering African Women
- Donald L. Dowridge The Power of Being A Winner
- Kendra Field Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War
- DeWayne Foote ManTalityGary Ford Constance Baker Motley: One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice Under Law
- Virginia Garcia Forbidden Circles
- Robert Green Who Were the Real Buffalo Soldiers
- Will Guzman Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands
- Angel Harriott Journey to Nubia and Kemet: Exploring African History, Culture and Contributions
- Michelle Harris Stories from the front of the room: How higher education faculty of color overcome challenges and thrive in the academy
- Jesse Holland The Black Panther (Who is the Black Panther)
- Davina Irvin THE TIGER & THE TORCH: Living & Learning with Local Black History
- Irving Jones Fearless Conversations
- Nubia Kai Kuma Malinke Historiography: Sundiata Keita to Almamy Samori Toure
- Mary Kaplan Solomon Carter Fuller: Where My Caravan Has Rested
- Natonne Kemp There Is Something About Edgefield: Shining a Light on the Black Community through History, Genealogy & Genetic DNA
- Kimberly Matthews Images of Modern America: The Richmond Crusade for Voters
- Louis McCall ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD LORD, I PRAY
- Todd Michney Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900-1980
- Jan Miles The Post-Racial Negro Green Book
- Juanita Patience Moss Forgotten Black Soldiers Who Served in White Regiments During the Civil War
- Tyriek Murphy Big City Nights: The Biography of the Legendary Cisero Murphy
- George Derek Musgrove Chocolate City: A History of race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital
- Stephanie Myers Invisible Queen
- Menah Pratt-Clarke A Black Woman’s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America
- Jacqueline Pressey Step in the Beauty of Holiness
- J.Everett Prewitt Something About Ann
- Gwen Thomas The Parents Smart Guide to Sending Your Kids to College Without Going Broke
- Sasha Turner Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
- Eric Twiggs The Discipline of Now, 12 Practical Principles To Overcome Procrastination
- Chad Williams Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
- Herman Williams CLEAR! Living The Life You Didn’t Dream Of
- Martha Williams WPA Original Gardeners