Kids Books, Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | February 27 , 2017

Angie Thomas Discusses The Hate U Give

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | April 04 , 2017

Stephanie Powell Watts Discusses No One Is Coming to Save Us

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Kids Books, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | June 16 , 2017

This Phenomenal Life: The Amazing Ways We Are Connected with Our Universe

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | September 05 , 2017

Jesmyn Ward Discusses Sing, Unburied, Sing

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | January 13 , 2016

Ethan Michaeli Discusses The Defender

Journalist Ethan Michaeli had a pressing question when he interviewed for a job with the celebrated black newspaper the Chicago

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | March 08 , 2016

Kaitlyn Greenidge Discusses We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Kaitlyn Greenidge knows that her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, is a disorienting read. She spent eight years

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | August 05 , 2016

Jesmyn Ward Discusses The Fire This Time

A powerful new anthology aims to channel the spirit of James Baldwin’s sharp eye and sharper pen, turning them on current

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | October 11 , 2016

Brit Bennett Discusses The Mothers

26-year-old Brit Bennett’s sparkling debut novel, The Mothers, came of age over eight years and several drafts. She began

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | December 08 , 2016

Patricia Bell-Scott Discusses The Firebrand and the First Lady

In The Firebrand and the First Lady, scholar Patricia Bell-Scott illuminates the unlikely friendship between two historic

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Author & Leader Interviews, Books for Adults . By Maya Smart | August 15 , 2017

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Discusses A Kind of Freedom

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