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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Online
Feminism’s ultimate breakthrough remains elusive. America again will not elect a woman as president in 2020, despite the initial promise in a crowd...
Signature Event
Online
Family members and other close associates share what they learned from late first lady Barbara Bush in the newly released Pearls of Wisdom...
Signature Event
Online
In an online discussion of his new book,What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues, author Cliffor...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 12, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Perhaps no one took more meaning from the advent of the automobile—and its promise of freedom and adventure, power and self-expression—than African...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College and an authority on racial issues in the U.S., looks anew at the challe...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 20, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her new book, Towson University’s Jeannie Vanasco walks through her lingering trauma, feelings of betrayal, and...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her memoir Smacked, former New York Times business columnist Eilene Zimmerman...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Arguments in the divisive right-to-die debate range from legal to spiritual, ethical, and social. Longtime public radio host and podcaster...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Merriam-Webster has thrown its considerable weight behind the use of “they” as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun, expanding its dictionary definit...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
When journalist Sarah DiGregorio’s daughter was born nearly three months prematurely, she was cast into a place—t...