Events and Media Appearances
BACKTALKER BOOK TOUR 2026
Thursday April 30: Los Angeles, CA — LA / Reparations Club + PEN World Voices @ The Gathering Spot
Monday May 4: Brooklyn, NY — Powerhouse (Brooklyn), 7pm
Tuesday May 5: New York, NY — TBD
Thursday May 7: Washington, DC — DC / Mahogany Books @ DC Public Library, 7pm
Saturday May 9: Chicago, IL — Chicago Humanities, 6:30pm — Get Tickets
Monday May 11: New York, NY — Roosevelt House
Tuesday May 12: Cambridge, MA — Harvard Bookstore @ Brattle Theater, 6pm
Wednesday May 13: New York, NY — NYPL, 7pm
Thursday May 14: Los Angeles, CA — Hammer Museum
Friday, May 15: Seattle, WA — Town Hall, 7:30pm
Monday May 18: San Francisco, CA — Booksmith @ Internet Archive
May 22 - May 29: UK tour
Notable Articles and MEdia Appearances
The Battle for Our Memory Is the Battle for Our Country, Time
Why Trump’s ‘anti-woke’ attack on the Smithsonian matters, The Guardian
Civil rights leaders rally around National Museum of African American History, USA Today
Anti-Blackness Is at the Heart of Trump’s Toxic Politics, The New Republic
‘Just the tip of the iceberg’: Kimberlé Crenshaw warns against rightwing battle over critical race theory, The Guardian
King was a critical race theorist before there was a name for it, Los Angeles Times
Why book bans and voter suppression go hand in hand, Los Angeles Times
‘You Promised You Wouldn’t Kill Me’ : Atatiana Jefferson, Natasha McKenna and the other black women we forget, The New York Times
The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies, The New York Times
“Critical thinking is the kryptonite to fascism”: Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Trump administration's erasure policies
“The urgency of intersectionality”: TED Talk