Past Appearances

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Free Library of Philadelphia
Time: 7:30 PM

1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Tickets cost $15 for general admission, $7 for students and are available on January 4, 2013.

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Thursday, January 31, 2013
“The State of Things” WUNC-FM/NPR, Raleigh Durham)
Time: 12-1 PM

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Enoch Pratt Free Library
Time: 7 PM

400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

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Sunday, January 27, 2013
TV One’s “Washington Watch with Roland Martin”
Time: 11 AM EST

Friday, January 25, 2013
The Mike Cuthbert Show – AARP Radio
Time: 10-10:30 AM

Friday, January 25, 2013
Aspen Institute
Time: 12-2 PM

Moderated discussion by James Fallows

Thursday, January 24, 2013
WYPR-Maryland Morning

Thursday, January 24, 2013
WAMU-FM-Kojo Nnamdi Show

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

“Get Connected with Conn Jackson”, WAEC-AM
1:05-1:35 PM EST


Monday, January 21, 2013

Mark Steiner Show
5-7 PM EST

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Sunday, January 20, 2013
CBS Face the Nation, 11 AM EST

A look at the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joe Califano, Lehigh University’s Dr. James Peterson, and Taylor Branch, author of “The King Years”

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Thursday, January 17, 2013
The Diane Rehm Show; NPR Radio

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Monday, January 14, 2013
“Culture Shocks with Barry Lynn”; NBC Radio
3-3:40 PM

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
“Armstrong & Getty Show”; KKSF-AM
7:45-8 AM (Pacific)


Thursday, January 10, 2013
Time: 11:30 AM-1 PM
Midtown II Auditorium Community Room

AT&T’s annual “In the Circle of Legends” MLK Celebration

725 W Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA


Monday, January 7, 2013
Time: 7:16-7:26 AM
Tom Joyner Show

Taylor Branch interview with Roland Martin, Tom Joyner, Sybil Wilkes and J. Anthony Brown


Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Time: 8:00-9:00 AM
Chantilly Ballroom West, Hilton Anatole Hotel, 2201 North Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX

Annual Convention for the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, “Featured Session: The State of Intercollegiate Athletics in Today’s Ever-Changing Environment.”

With Wade Manual, Athletics Director at the University of Connecticut; Marilyn McNeil, Athletics Director at Monmouth University; and Tim Selgo, Athletics Director at Grand Valley State University; Moderated by Steve Weinberg of USA Today.

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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Time: 1:15-2:25 PM
Paepcke Auditorium, Aspen, Colorado

Aspen Ideas Festival, Panel Discussion “College Sports at a Crossroads: Entertainment or Education?” 

With New York Times columnist Joe Nocera; NCAA Vice President Wallace Renfro; and Oregon State head basketball coach Craig Robinson, moderated by ESPN correspondent Tom Farrey, director of the Aspen Institute’s Sports & Society program

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Friday, June 29, 2012
Time: 5:30-6:30 PM
Room TBA at the Hotel Jerome, Aspen Colorado

Aspen Ideas Festival, one-on-one discussion with actress Anna Deavere Smith, “College Sports: A Canary in the Mine?  Will the Higher Education Bubble Burst Like Others?”

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Monday, July 2, 2012
11:30 AM
St. Augustine, FL 

Speaker
Freedom Trail Luncheon
Honoring the St. Augustine Movement

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Time: 5:30-7:30 PM
1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036

In “The Future of College Sports,” the American Enterprise Institute sponsors a public debate between author Taylor Branch and Louisiana State University President Dr. John Lombardi.


Monday, March 19, 2012
Lecture
“Violence and Nonviolence in History and Everyday Life”

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Friday, November 4, 2011, 12:00 Noon
Lecture
“Forty Years After MLK: Looking Ahead With Obama”

The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH  44114

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Saturday, October 29, 2011, 9:00 AM
Presenter with Bob Moses and Drew S. Days, III
“Breaking the Caste System”
Ceremony Honoring John Doar
Former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division

Sidwell Friends School
3825 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC


Thursday, October 27, 2011, 8:00 PM
Presenter
Search for Common Ground Awards Ceremony

Carnegie Institution for Science
1530 P Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005


Monday, October 24, 2011, 10:00 AM
Eulogy and Tribute
Funeral of Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth

Faith Chapel
100 Lexington Street
Birmingham, AL 35224