February is Black History Month, and at SVWC we are celebrating the important contributions of Black authors to past Conferences and to the literary world as a whole. Click the links below to watch or listen to these incredible talks:

Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Lies That Bind: Identity in Our Age (2019)

Edwidge Danticat: Literary Immigration (2018)

Terrance Hayes: A Poetry Reading (2018)

John Lewis: My Country, My Story (2014)

Julie Lythcott-Haims: Real American: Becoming Whole (2019)

Imbolo Mbue: The Books That Made Me a Writer (2017)

Roger Wilkins: Bearing Witness (2002)

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