Sankofa Bookstore
2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC
Join us for the sixth installment in our series commemorating the 100th birthday of Malcolm X—Presentations and discussion with Laini Mataka, Nubia Kai, Kenneth Carroll, Kelly Navies and Brian Gilmore! […]
This event will be in conversation with The Atlantic. When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, news spread about his implementation of Project 2025, a nearly […]
Sankofa Bookstore
2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC
Join us for the seventh installment in our series commemorating the 100th birthday of Malcolm X—activist, orator, and enduring symbol of Black liberation. Malcolm X and the Arts features a […]
In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black freedom struggle--a year when America faced a […]
When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its […]
The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once and future president to survive felony convictions and a would-be assassin's bullet, […]
Patriarchy has oppressed women and denied their contributions worldwide, but the United States of America has its own unique gendered hierarchy. Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs applies her signature blend of […]
Sold out of in-person tickets. Virtual tickets available. What if we could redefine leadership? What if kindness came first? The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern was elected the 40th Prime Minister of […]
Is there a single change that could simultaneously protect democracy, spur progress on climate change, enact sane gun policies, and improve our response to the next pandemic? Yes: changing the […]
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has […]
Few people beyond South Carolina's Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston--Mother Emanuel--before the night of June 17, 2015, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible […]
Published in 2011, A Queer History of the United States is extremely comprehensive – beginning in 1492 all the way up to the modern era. It has been banned and […]