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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Author A'Lelia Bundles
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an author talk with renowned Author A’Lelia Bundles and moderated by Tracy Chiles McGhee.  Bundles will discuss her new book\, Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance on Wednesday June 11 at the MLK Library in Washington\, DC. \n\n\n\nThis event is in partnership with Politics & Prose\, the DC Public Library Foundation\, and The Washington Association of Black Journalists. Be the first to register and arrive to receive your free book. \n\n\n\nRegister here! \nAbout the Author\nA’Lelia Bundles is the author of Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance (Scribner\, June 2025)\, the first major biography of her great-grandmother\, and of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker\, a New York Times Notable Book and bestseller about her great-great-grandmother\, an early 20th century hair care industry entrepreneur and philanthropist.   She is the founder of the Madam Walker Family Archives\, the largest private collection of Walker photographs\, memorabilia and ephemera. A’Lelia worked in network television news for thirty years\, first at NBC News where she was a producer for news and magazine programs\, and then at ABC News where she was a World News Tonight producer\, Washington\, DC deputy bureau chief and director of talent development. \nHer book\, On Her Own Ground\, received the Association of Black Women Historians’ 2001 Letitia Woods Brown prize for the best book on Black women’s history and was named a Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s Honor Book and a Hurston/Wright-Borders Books Legacy Award finalist in 2001. This deeply researched non-fiction book was the inspiration for Self Made\, the fictional four-part 2020 Netflix series starring Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer. A recipient of an Emmy and a du Pont Gold Baton for her television news work\, A’Lelia has participated in writing residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell and was named to Forbes Magazine’s 50 Over 50 Impact list.
URL:https://wabjdc.org/event/an-author-talk-with-author-alelia-bundles/
LOCATION:MLK Library\, 901 G Street NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001
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