Freeman's Challenge Events

Public Events upon Publication of Freeman’s Challenge

 

  • Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi, Hutchins Fellows Colloquium, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, 23 April 2025  
  • “Mass Center for the Book Presents Prisons for Profit: Racism and the History of Incarceration in the North,” conversation with Toussaint Losier, Newburyport Literary Festival, 26 April 2025
  • Conversation, Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC, 6 March 2025, 
  • Conversation with Lisa Biggs, Boston Atheneum, 19 February 2025
  • Conversation with LaKisha Simmons, “Bookworm,” William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, 17 January 2025
  •  Conversation with Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Mass Incarceration Research Cluster, Brown University
  • Conversation with Nicole Fleetwood, New York Society Library (online), 19 September 2024
  • Conversation with Caleb Gayle, Watertown Free Public Library, 18 September 2024
  • Book talk, Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures, Cornell University, 13 September 2024
  • Conversation with Karen Jaime, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY, 12 September 2024
  • Discussion of Freeman’s Challenge with current prisoners enrolled in the Cornell Prison Education Project, Auburn Correctional Facility, 12 September 2024
  • Lecture, “The Seward Family and the Auburn State Prison,” Seward House Museum, Auburn, NY, 11 September 1024
  •  Lecture, New-York Historical Society and Bryant Park Reading Room, 17 July 2024
  • Conversation with Kyla Wazana Tompkins, North Presbyterian Church and Talking Leaves Bookstore, Buffalo, NY, 13 July 2024
  • Conversation with Lorrie Kim, A Novel Idea Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA, 2 June 2024
  • Conversation with Julius Fleming, Red Emma’s Bookstore, Baltimore, MD, 29 May 2024
  • Conversation with Brandon Terry, Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA, 17 May 2024. Event co-sponsored by the Hutchins Center Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety
  • Conversation with Koritha Mitchell, Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA, 8 May 2024. 
  • Conversation with Marcia Chatelain, Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington DC, 5 May 2023. 
  • Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe, P&T Knitwear Bookstore, New York City, 3 May 2024
  • Conversation with Kevin Quashie, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, 16 April 2024. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YKO08Ak3iY&t=1885s; C-SPAN coverage of event: https://www.c-span.org/video/?534848-1/freemans-challenge