Mar 7, 2023
Performer and writer Joy Harjo visits Google to discuss her journey and her new book "Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years". This selection of poems celebrates the three-term US Poet Laureate’s fifty years as a poet. She is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee...
Feb 24, 2023
CEO of Good Steward LLC, financial coach, and author Shawn Rochester visits Google to discuss his book, "The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America". He examines the various costs associated with being Black in America, as well as what the Black community and concerned advocates can do to help close the...
Feb 17, 2023
National Book Award winner, MacArthur fellow, and New York Times
bestselling author Colson Whitehead visits Google to discuss his
novel, "The Underground Railroad."
The novel tells the story of Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation
in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on
the cusp of womanhood,...
Feb 14, 2023
Brandon Kyle Goodman visits Google to discuss his book "You Gotta Be You: How to Embrace This Messy Life and Step Into Who You Really Are." From the time we’re born, a litany of do’s and don’ts are placed on us by our families, our communities, and society. We're required to fit into boxes based on our race,...
Jan 6, 2023
Author Cate Flanders visits Google to discuss her book “The Year of
Less”.
In her late twenties, Cait found herself stuck in the consumerism
cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more,
rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000
of consumer debt, her old habits took hold...