GE N ERAL SES S I O NS Friday, November 19 8:00–9:15 p.m. ET
GEORGE M. JOHNSON GEORGE M. JOHNSON is the author of the memoir We Are Not Broken. Johnson has written for major outlets, including Teen Vogue, Entertainment Tonight, NBC, The Root, Buzzfeed, Essence, Ebony, THEM, and The Grio. They have also served as Guest Editor for BET.com’s Pride month. They were awarded the 2019 Salute to Excellence Award by the National Association of Black Journalists for their article “When Racism Anchors Your Health” in Vice Magazine, and named to The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2020. They are the author of the bestselling memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue. VINCENT MARC
Saturday, November 20 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. ET
COLSON WHITEHEAD COLSON WHITEHEAD is the author of Harlem Shuffle. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten works of fiction and nonfiction, and a twotime winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, including the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and Harper’s. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, he lives in New York City. CHRIS CLOSE
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