Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today – review
Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021
The great writer’s passion and resilience resonate anew in Eddie S Glaude Jr’s timely, powerful study
Books and Literature
Exploring Black Religion: An eBook Special
Monday, Jan 11, 2021
This month, as we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., we look to his role as a leading figure in the African American church. MLK’s important work inspires us to explore the history, complexity, and influences of Black religion in American life. Browse the eBooks below to find studies on Black women’s Christian activism, the connections between Black religion and cooking traditions, the influence of religion on the poetry of Langston Hughes, and other important interventions in the study of Black religion. Get each eBook for just $1.99 through the end of January!The Books That Got Away
Friday, Dec 18, 2020
Listen, a lot has happened this year, and it's no shock that some things may have slipped under the radar. So our resident book expert, Karen Grigsby Bates, took a virtual trip around the country to talk to independent book store owners about their favorite underappreciated reads of 2020.HAI Recommended Reading: 10 Books Worth Checking Out
Friday, Dec 18, 2020
HAI faculty members share their favorite fiction and nonfiction books with a technology theme.James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere
Friday, Dec 18, 2020
Elaborating on the entanglements between the past and present of US politics, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.’s Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own effectively interweaves Baldwin’s time with our own.Difficult Questions
Friday, Dec 18, 2020
Equating conversation with political actionWhat 'Backlash' Against Black Progress Really Means: A Lesson on Race From Eddie Glaude's New Book
Wednesday, Dec 16, 2020
I recently read (twice) a book on race in America that I think would be valuable for high school and college students (and, for that matter, everyone else) to read. Now.
Toni Morrison to be Honored in Thanksgiving Marathon Reading, Posthumous Induction to National Women’s Hall of Fame
Monday, Nov 23, 2020
World-renowned writer and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University, who died on Aug. 5, 2019, will be honored in a Thanksgiving weekend marathon reading of her novel “Song of Solomon” and a posthumous induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.Joshua Bennett Presents "Being Property Once Myself" and "Owed" with Imani Perry
Monday, Nov 23, 2020
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes acclaimed poet Dr. Joshua Bennett—the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and author of The Sobbing School: Poems—for a discussion of his latest books, Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man and the poetry collection Owed. He will be joined in conversation by writer and scholar Dr. Imani Perry, author of the award–winning biography, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.Marc Lamont Hill "We Still Here" Book Launch with Eddie Glaude Jr.
Monday, Nov 23, 2020
Uncle Bobbie's own Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is in conversation with Eddie Glaude for the launch of his profoundly insightful, radical and timely book "We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest and Possibility", followed by a live audience Q&A.
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