Events
2024
Dr. Jane Ellen McAllister Symposium – “Humanities and the Intellectual Life of Dr. Jane, Ellen McAllister”
October 24-25
Vicksburg, MS
Furious Flower IV, Celebrating Worlds of Black Poetry – “The Creativity of Black Women: From Phillis Wheatley to Margaret Walker.” Ebony Lumumba, Airea D. Matthews, Maryemma Graham
September 21
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Bay Area Book Festival – “Black Women: Reclaiming our Legacies and Futures”
Maryemma Graham, Shia Smith, Cynthia Manick, Joshunda Sanders
June 1-2
Berkeley, CA
Institute for Diversity in the Arts – “A Conversation with Adam Banks”
May 31
Stanford University
Ruthe T. Sheffey Lecture in African American Female Studies– “Becoming Margaret Walker: The Most Famous Person Nobody Knows”
March 28
Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
Memories and Milestones – “Black History For My People: An Authors Round-Table honoring Margaret Walker”
February 22
WBHM – Birmingham Public Radio, Birmingham, AL
“Daughter of Birmingham”
February 20
Tougaloo College, MS
Roundtable Writers Breakfast – “Conversation with Maryemma Graham”
January 13
The Black Academy for Arts and Letters, Dallas, TX
2023
50th Anniversary Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival – “Tribute to Margaret Walker,” Maryemma Graham, Shelly C. Lowe, Maria Rosaria, Jackson, Monique Davis”
November 1-4
Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, MS
“The House where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker in Conversation with Tayari Jones”
September 28
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta, GA
Kansas Book Festival
September 16
Washburn University, KS
Mississippi Book Festival
August 19
Jackson, MS
Raven Book Store
May 4
Lawrence, KS
CASE (Creative Arts & Scholarly Engagement) – Margaret Walker Center
April 14 – 15
Jackson State University
Off Square Books
April 12
Oxford, MS
History is Lunch – Mississippi Department of Archives and History
April 12
Jackson, MS
Paine College, the Lucy Craft Laney Museum and the Book Tavern Book Talk
March 29
Augusta, GA
Revival: Lost Southern Voices – “A Conversation with Pearl McHaney”
March 22-25
Decatur Public Library, GA
Pennsylvania State University – “Reading and Discussion”
March 16
State College, PA
Maryemma Graham and Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation
January 5
African American Center, San Francisco Public Library
