Appearances & Events
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October 12, 2026
12:00 P.M. CDT
Jim will be Blake Framer's guest on This is Nashville, WPLN, Nashville Public Radio 90.3 FM.
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October 13, 2026
12:00 P.M. EDT
Virtual presentation, Langston Center Lunch & Learning, Johnson City, Tennessee
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October 15, 2026
Elbert Williams' 118th birthday.
6:00 P.M. CDT
Launch at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis - conversation with Margaret A Burnham, Professor, Director of Northeastern Law's Center for Civil Rights & Restorative Justice, and author of By Hands Now Known, Jim Crow's Legal Executioners.
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October 17, 2026
11:00 A.M. CDT
Venue: The Obion Room, Tennessee State Library and Archives
Southern Festival of Books, Nashville - conversation with John Seigenthaler Jr, broadcast journalist & commentator
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October 19, 2026
5:30 P.M. CDT
Dunbar-Carver Museum, 709 East Jefferson Street, Brownsville TN (the scene of the crime). For the benefit of the Elbert Williams Interpretive Center
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October 20, 2026
5:30 P.M. CDT
Southern Poverty Law Center in its Civil Rights Memorial Center, Montgomery AL - conversation with Lecia Brooks, SPLC
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October 22, 2026
6:30 P.M. EDT
PT Knitwear, 180 Orchard Street, NYC, conversation with Keith Beauchamp, Filmmaker (Till)
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October 23, 2026
6:00 P.M. EDT
Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge MA, conversation with William Cornell Brooks, Professor Harvard Kennedy School, 18th President NAACP
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October 24, 2026
The Reginald Lewis Museum, Maryland Lynching Project annual meeting, Baltimore
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October 28, 2026
7:00 P.M. EDT
Red Emma's Bookstore, Baltimore, conversation with India Artis, NAACP Archivist
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October 30, 2026
7:00 P.M. EDT
Politics & Prose, Washington DC, conversation with Aderson Francois, Professor & Dir. of the Civil Rights Clinic & the Voting Rights Institute, Georgetown Law
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November 11, 2026
King's Books, Tacoma WA, conversation with professor emeritus and author Michael K Honey.
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November 14, 2026
10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. EDT
"Books By The Banks, Cincinnati Regional Book Festival," at the Main Public Library, 800 Vine Street, Downtown Cincinnati.
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November 19, 2026
7:00 P.M. PST
Books Inc, Palo Alto CA, conversation with Matt Gonzalez, Chief Attorney, San Francisco Public Defender's Office
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January 22, 2027
Elliott Bay Book Comany, Seattle WA, conversation with professor emeritus and author Michael K Honey.
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February 12, 2027
Conference on African American History & Culture, Tennessee State University, Avon Williams Campus, 330 10th Avenue North., Nashville, speech

