News & EVENTS
BOOK LAUNCH EVENTS
April 25 — Greenville, SC — Liberty Fellowship 20th Anniversary Dinner
June 2 — Charleston, SC — Pre-publication sneak peek for members of Mother Emanuel and the A.M.E. community, in conversation with Dr. John Thomas, editor of The Christian Recorder — Emanuel A.M.E. Church, 110 Calhoun Street — 7 p.m. — TCR Dialogue and Mother Emanuel Book Launch
June 3 — Charleston, SC — Official Book Launch — In conversation with Carolyn Murray, anchor at WCBD-TV — Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street, in conjunction with Buxton Books — 6 p.m. — Honoring Mother Emanuel - Charleston Library Society
June 5 — Columbia, SC — In conversation with Dr. Bobby Donaldson, director of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research, University of South Carolina — Allen University, Waverly Building, 2200 Hampton Street, in conjunction with All Good Books — 5:30 p.m. — Emanuel Nine Book Talk
June 8 — Charleston, SC — Second Sunday — signing books in VIP tent on King Street, near Liberty — June at the 2nd Sunday Tent — 2nd Sunday on King Street
June 9 — Savannah, GA — In conversation with Jordyn Holman, business reporter for The New York Times — The Seminar (private forum for senior communications and public affairs professionals) — 3 p.m.
June 10 — Atlanta, GA — In conversation with Rev. Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Jr., James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership at Emory University and former President of Morehouse College — Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, NW — 7 p.m. — Elson Lecture featuring Kevin Sack in conversation with Robert Franklin | Atlanta History Center
June 11 — Washington, DC — In conversation with Robert Samuels of The Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize winning co-author of His Name Is George Floyd — Politics and Prose at The Wharf, 610 Water Street, SW — 7 p.m. — Kevin Sack — Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church - with Robert Samuels — at The Wharf | Politics and Prose Bookstore
June 12 — New America — In (virtual) conversation with journalist and author Caleb Gayle — 12 p.m. — Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
June 12 — Baltimore, MD — In conversation with Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead, professor of communication and African American studies at Loyola University Maryland and host of Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA-FM — Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street — 7 p.m. — Kevin Sack: "Mother Emanuel" Tickets, Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
June 13 — Fairfax, VA — In conversation with Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of Metropolitan A.M.E. Church of Washington, DC — Fairfax Presbyterian Church, 10723 Main Street — 7 p.m. — Kevin Sack Book Talk: Mother Emanuel Tickets, Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite — Live stream: Fairfax Presbyterian Church - YouTube
June 20 — Jacksonville, FL — Jacksonville Public Library Lit Chat, in conversation with Isaiah M. Oliver, president of The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida — Main Library, 303 N. Laura Street — 4 p.m. — Lit Chat with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Kevin Sack | Jacksonville Public Library
June 23 — Cambridge, MA — In conversation with James Dao, editorial page editor of The Boston Globe — Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue — 7 p.m. — Kevin Sack at Harvard Book Store | Harvard Book Store
June 25 — Savannah, GA — In conversation with Rev. Thurmond N. Tillman, pastor of historic First African Baptist Church — The Learning Center, 3025 Bull Street — 12 p.m. — Mother Emanuel 12:00 - 1:00 pm Wednesday, June 25 — Senior Citizens, Inc.
July 23 — Atlanta, GA — In conversation with Rev. Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Jr. — UNITE conference, sponsored by UNCF — Signia by Hilton Atlanta, 159 Northside Drive NW — 11:25 a.m.
August 13 — Camden, SC — In conversation with Camden Mayor and former State Senator Vincent Sheheen, in conjunction with Books on Broad — Liberty Hall, Revolutionary War Visitor Center, 212 Broad Street — 6 p.m.
September 13 — Eva Haller Salon Series — virtual — 5 p.m. Eastern — Eva Haller Salon Series | MY HERO
September 25 — New York, NY — Trinity Talks, in conversation with the Rev. Phillip A. Jackson, rector — Trinity Church, 89 Broadway — 6:30 p.m.
November 7 — Charleston, SC — Charleston Literary Festival — In conversation with best-selling author and Princeton scholar Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., featuring a performance by the Emanuel AME Choir — Dock Street Theater, 135 Church Street — Charleston Literary Festival
COVERAGE
Spirited Brunch is an open book - The Food Section
Need a summer read? These are the South’s hottest new books — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sack’s Emanuel history defines massacre’s impact - Charleston City Paper
Ten Years After Tragedy: PW Talks with Kevin Sack — Publishers Weekly
Pulitzer winner to discuss history of AME church at Atlanta History Center — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Remembering the Mother Emanuel Church Shooting 10 Years Later | TIME
10 New Books We Recommend This Week - The New York Times
Walter Edgar's Journal | Mother Emanuel: Two centuries of race, resistance, and forgiveness
Emanuel AME has a long history of forgiveness, by necessity — The Post and Courier
Book of the Week (June 8, 2025) — The New York Times
Nonfiction book of the Month (June) — Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction | Kirkus Reviews
The Great Big Summer Reading List – Garden & Gun
Opinion | 10 years after the Charleston AME church shooting — Boston Globe
Charleston’s Emanuel AME: history, grace, and resilience | The State
'Mother Emanuel' is a history of the Charleston church, 10 years after shooting : NPR
Writer examines Dylann Roof’s massacre at Mother Emanuel AME | The State
More than a massacre: How an outsider captured Mother Emanuel's legacy —Religion News Service
Kevin Sack on Mother Emanuel Charleston Church Shooting 10 years later – The Forward
10 years after tragedy, a historic Black church lives on - Say More | Podcast on Spotify
First Coast Connect: Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Kevin Sack