In conversation with Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie Ngozie. We talking race, gender and what it means to be a feminist today

We met with author Imbolo Mbue in Cincinnati Ohio at the Books by the banks festival and discussed the American dream and her debut novel Behold the Dreamers.

In her second novel , the Beggars Strike , Senegalese writer and pioneer of African literature in the French language, Aminata Sow Fall is trying to answer the question are poor people more or less valuable then rich people. 

Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi share her thoughts on the danger of stereotypes, feminism and race in America.

Readings of Damon Young first book and what it means to be black and a man in America

Damon Young author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker and I discussed what it means to be black in America.

Reading from Cesaire Cahier d'un retour au pays natale, Notebook of a return to my native land.We immerse ourselves in one of the most important book ever written by an African , a black man.

As we remember the 9/11 attacks in New York, American Poet Suheir Hammad offers poems of comfort and resistance.

Julia Alvarez talks about her 2nd novel, In the time of the butterflies, at the Library Of Congress Book Festival