Appearances & Events

  • 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.

  • October 13, 2026

    12:00 P.M. EDT

    Virtual presentation, Langston Center Lunch & Learning, Johnson City, Tennessee

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • October 22, 2026

    6:30 P.M. EDT

    PT Knitwear, 180 Orchard Street, NYC, conversation with Keith Beauchamp, Filmmaker (Till)

  • October 23, 2026

    6:00 P.M. EDT

    Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge MA, conversation with William Cornell Brooks, Professor Harvard Kennedy School, 18th President NAACP

  • October 24, 2026

    The Reginald Lewis Museum, Maryland Lynching Project annual meeting, Baltimore

  • October 28, 2026

    7:00 P.M. EDT

    Red Emma's Bookstore, Baltimore, conversation with India Artis, NAACP Archivist

  • 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

  • November 11, 2026

    King's Books, Tacoma WA, conversation with professor emeritus and author Michael K Honey.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • January 22, 2027

    Elliott Bay Book Comany, Seattle WA, conversation with professor emeritus and author Michael K Honey.   

  • February 12, 2027

    Conference on African American History & Culture, Tennessee State University, Avon Williams Campus, 330 10th Avenue North., Nashville, speech