Book Reading - A World of Black Authors
Thu, Oct 17
|Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Join us on October 17 at Sankofa for an exciting book reading featuring powerful voices from Black authors! Don’t miss this chance to celebrate literature and community.
Time & Location
Oct 17, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
About the Authors
Victor Luckerson
Victor Luckerson is a journalist and author who works to bring neglected black history to light. His new book on the history of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Built From the Fire, won the MAAH Stone Book Award, the Lillian Smith Book Award and was named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times. His writing and research have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wired, and Smithsonian. He was nominated for a National Magazine Award for his reporting in Time on the 1923 Rosewood Massacre. He also manages an email newsletter about underexplored aspects of black history called Run It Back.
Cheryl Head
Cheryl A. Head is the author of the award-winning Charlie Mack Motown mysteries, and the 2023 novel, Time’s Undoing which is shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Strand Critics Award, and…