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Join us at the MLK Library for an Author Talk with Juanita Tolliver on her book, A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics.
Juanita Tolliver will discuss her book A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics with award-winning author Ibram Kendi. This program will include a 45-minute conversation followed by a 15-minute Q&A with the audience and a book signing. Register to join the live audience.
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Juanita Tolliver is an Author, MSNBC Political Analyst, Opinion Contributor for theGrio, and a Contributor and Guest Host for SiriusXM Progress. Juanita refined her appreciation for cultural lore with her new book, A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics.
Previously, Juanita served as Host of Crooked Media’s What A Day podcast, and as the Director of Campaigns at the Center for American Progress Action Fund where she advised presidential and congressional campaigns, and led policy advocacy campaigns. She is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is a National Book Award-winning author of sixteen books for adults and children, including ten New York Times bestsellers—five of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. Dr. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor. In the summer of 2025, he will join Howard University as Professor of History and Director of its newly established Howard Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Kendi is the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, making him the youngest author to win that award. He also authored the international bestseller, How to Be an Antiracist, which was described in the New York Times as “the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.” Dr. Kendi’s other bestsellers include How to Raise an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. In 2020, Time magazine named Dr. Kendi one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. He was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.
His next book is Malcolm Lives!. It is the first major biography of Malcolm for young readers in more than thirty years, appearing in May 2025 on the centennial of Malcolm’s birth.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Juneteenth | Author Talk |
