Dismantling Racism Discussions

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August 26: Silver Linings: A Memoir – by Leonard E. Fairley

Watch a video from Soapstone UMC: A Conversation with Bishop Leonard Fairley

September 30: We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) by Eddie Glaude Jr.

Watch: Politics and Prose Bookstore interview by journalist Clint Smith

Watch: Speech and Q&A at American Philosophical Society

Watch: PBS Amanpour & Co Interview by journalist Walter Isaacson

October 28: A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power by Abby Phillip

Watch: SC ETV For the People (1982) Rev Jesse Jackson

Watch: CBS Sunday Morning – From the Archives, Jesse Jackson’s Political Movement

Watch: Democracy Now – Remembering Jesse Jackson (2026)

January 27: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Watch: Harvard Book Store book talk (2013)

Watch: Yale University book talk (2011)

Watch: UNC-Chapel Hill Public Health book talk (2001)

February 24: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois 

Watch: PBS Biography in Four Voices

Listen: Reelblack One – Autobiography (1961)

March 31: Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church by Kevin Sack

Watch: Charleston Library Festival 2025 – author Kevin Sack interviewed by Eddie Glaude

Watch: WEAA/enochprattlibrary – author Kevin Sack interviewed by Karsonya Wise Whitehead

Watch: CBS News – The Charleston Church Shooting: Six Years Later

April 28: Erasure: A Novel by Percival Everett

Listen: NY Times Book Review book club discussion 2025

Watch: About the Authors TV Percival Everett book talk

Watch: Critical – Percival Everett, author of Erasure, executive producer of the movie