# Freeman's Challenge Events **Public Events upon Publication of** ***Freeman’s Challenge*** - [Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc4r30b4lXw&t=1353s), 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9LQSTTSTY), Washington, DC, 6 March 2025, - Conversation with Lisa Biggs, Boston Atheneum, 19 February 2025 - [Conversation with LaKisha Simmons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxi-kTcha0Q), “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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZUJSM2BuJY), Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA, 8 May 2024. - [Conversation with Marcia Chatelain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smx9rdc3rc8), 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YKO08Ak3iY&t=1885s); C-SPAN coverage of event: