Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets welcomes Randall C. Jimerson and Amos Townsend in a conversation moderated by  Ann Jimerson. Topic: Coming of Age at the height of the Civil Rights Era in “the most segregated city in America.” Featured Title: Shattered Glass in Birmingham: My Family’s Fight for Civil Rights 1961-1964 by (more…)

Teaching for Change’s Busboys and Poets Bookstore welcomes Marion Barry to sign and discuss Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr. Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to the executive offices of one of the most (more…)

Join author Yasmeen Premji as she signs and discusses her book “Days of Gold and Sepia”  This is the saga of Lalljee Lakha as he rises from his humble beginnings as a penniless orphan in his desert homeland of Kutch to amass a large fortune as Bombays Cotton King. Set against the eventful period between (more…)

Busboys and Poets Books welcomes Congressman Keith Ellison to sign and discuss “My Country ‘Tis of Thee: My Family, My Faith, Our Future.”  The first Muslim to be elected to Congress speaks out about what divides Americans?and what can bring us together. As a former Catholic who converted to Islam, Keith Ellison, is the first (more…)

Teaching for Change  Bookstore  at Busboys and Poets  welcomes  Matt Herron, Julian Bond, Aviva Kempner, and a panel moderated by Askia Muhammad  to discuss the book, This Light of our Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents (more…)

Come check out my one man comedic motivational speaking event based on my self-help book The Glass Ceiling Vs. The Front Door. This will be everything you wish other motivational speakers would say and more. Come get motivated to either start or continue on your own funny road to success and laugh all the way (more…)

Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets welcomes Umi Vaughan for a book discussion and drum demonstration.  FEATURED TITLES Carlos Aldama?s Life in Bat?: Cuba, Diaspora, and the Drum  Bata identifies both the two-headed, hourglass-shaped drum of the Yoruba people and the culture and style of drumming, singing, and dancing associated with it. This (more…)

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Join Dr. Reza Aslan and The Washington Post’s Sally Quinn for a discussion on religion/faith, politics and Aslan’s book, Zealot: The Life and Time of Jesus of Nazareth” Tickets are sold out! From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a provocative and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus (more…)

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Busboys and Poets Books welcomes author and economist Ha-Joon Chang tosign and discuss Economics: The User’s Guide.  In his bestselling 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of thepredominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining andaccessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works?inreal-world (more…)

Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets  welcomes Charles Cobb Jr. to discuss and sign his new book, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible.Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self defense,” (more…)