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A'Lelia Bundles

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Author of On Her Own Ground (Madam C.J. Walker bio) & Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker & the Harlem Renaissance
www.aleliabundles.com www.madamcjwalker.com

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NEW SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER JOY GODDESS EVENTS! I hope to see you in DC, Atlanta, Jackson, and Indy this month and next. One of the lovely bonuses of my A’Lelia Walker biography is having new readers for “On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker,” which really is the “prequel” to “Joy Goddess.” For registration and event details click on my website link in bio. by @aleliabundles

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This morning I was thrilled to be on the
@todayshow with @alroker talking about my book -- Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance -- as we toured Madam Walker's Villa Lewaro in Irvington, NY. Having started my network TV news career at @nbcnews almost 50 years ago, it was a full circle moment for me as I had the pleasure of working with associate producer Haley Clark, a consummate professional, and the talented camera crew.

All TV news segments are collaborative efforts so I also am grateful to @simonandschuster @scribnerbooks publicist @addiegilligan, who shepherded this process, and to William James and the generous folks at Villa Lewaro who opened the home to us.

I always have a sense that the ancestors are sending their encouragement as I tell these family stories so I'm going to allow myself to think that it's more than just a lovely coincidence that today would have been my mother's 97th birthday.

I hope you enjoy the segment. I'd love it if you'd share the link with others and if you'd encourage friends to consider Joy Goddess as their summer vacation read. While everything in the book is 100% true and carefully documented non-fiction, I'm very happy that folks tell me it has the drama and twists and turns of good fiction. by @aleliabundles

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Biographers International Organization’s $5000 Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship for an exceptional biography-in-progress about an African American figure

Entry deadline: Feb 1, 2027

Application details: @biographersintl

Past recipients include @rachelswarnsnyt @sgarrettscott Kevin McGruder, Ramin Ganeshram, Heath Brown and @marione_orr by @aleliabundles

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TOMORROW! SAT AFTERNOON! 5:00pm EST/4:00pm CT/2:00 pm PT Artist Live w/ @aleliabundles

A’Lelia Bundles is the author of Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, a 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Prize finalist, and On Her Own
Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, a New York Times Notable Book about her great-great-grandmother. She founded the Madam Walker Family Archives and worked for thirty years at NBC News and ABC News as a producer then as an executive. She serves on several non-profit boards including the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. A recipient of an Emmy for her journalism, she was a
MacDowell and Yaddo fellow while writing Joy Goddess.

#A’LeliaBundlesnjournalism #JoyGoddessA’LeliaWalkerandtheHarlemRenaissance #madamwalkerfamilyarchives by @aleliabundles

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Books continue to be challenged and banned across the country and in honor of Banned Books week, we asked A'Lelia Bundles, author of JOY GODESS and ON HER OWN GROUND, about her thoughts on banned books. by @aleliabundles

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INSPIRED by the powerful conversation with @aleliabundles at the Martha’s Vineyard Black Book Festival about the journey of writing a book and preserving the stories that shape who we are.

We need to tell our stories. We need to document our history, honor those who came before us, and make sure future generations know where they come from.

If we don’t tell our stories, who will?

#OurStories #OurLegacy #MarthasVineyardBlackBookFestival #BlackHistory BlackAuthors TellOurStories LiteraryLegacy taken in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts by @aleliabundles

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Colleagues, friends, and fellow writers at the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Mississippi. #Christopher Benson @esglaude @aleliabundles. Remember that Mississippi has an arguably great writing tradition. taken in Mississippi Museum of Art by @aleliabundles

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10/7 DC FRIENDS: I’d love to see you on 10/7 at 6:30 p.m. when I’ll be moderating a conversation with biographer @reboomer Ray Boomhower, author of “Wallace Terry: A Reporter’s Journey from Selma to Saigon to Bloods,” and panelists Marvin Kalb and Lisa Victoria Terry at NYU’s Brademas Center in Washington, DC. In this first full-length biography of Terry, Boomhower examines the pioneering career of Time magazine’s first Black national correspondent and how he helped shape public understanding of both the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Terry’s groundbreaking 1984 book, “Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans,” and the audio recording, “Guess Who’s Coming Home,” chronicled the reality of the experiences of Black GIs. His posthumously published 2007 book, “Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America,” captured the stories of other pioneers like Ethel Payne, Ed Bradley, Carl Rowan, Max Robinson, William Raspberry, Barbara Reynolds, Chuck Stone, Bernard Shaw, Carole Simpson and Earl Caldwell.
Registration link in bio by @aleliabundles

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10/3 INDIANAPOLIS Free Press Indiana’s daylong ArcFest event is perfectly timed to shine a light on the threats to freedom of speech, the American free press and the role of journalism in a democracy.

I’m honored to be included on the panel at 1:10 p.m. at IUI’s Hine Hall with @tamarawinfreyharris, Dr. Leslie K. Etienne, Kisha Tandy and @nicole_martinezlegrand

ArcFest is a collaboration of @freepressindnews and @mirrorindy Mirror Indy that brings together influential voices, artists, journalists, and civic leaders to explore what it means to participate in the life of our communities and how each of us can help shape the next chapter of the American story as our national celebrates its 250th anniversary.

It is beyond ironic during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that the very ideals and aspirations of American democracy set forth in the Declaration and the Constitution are being dismantled and undermined. But that is exactly why I choose to declare my place and rights as an American whose ancestors participated in building this nation. I refuse to be silenced, erased or dismissed by ignorant bigots.

Registration & schedule link in bio by @aleliabundles

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9/26 JACKSON, MS & C-SPAN - I’m THRILLED to see that our “Art, Activism & the American Dream” panel at the @msbookfestival Mississippi Book Festival will be carried by C-Span at 5 pm ET/4 pm CT. Tune in when authors Randal Maurice Jelks @drjelks, Chris Danielson, Emily Yellin and I explore some of the lives and moments that helped define the Black experience from the Harlem Renaissance to the Mississippi Freedom Struggle.
If you’re in Jackson on 9/26, please stop by the booksigning tent at 5:15 p.m.
Registration is at https://msbookfestival.com/ by @aleliabundles

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9/25 IN ATLANTA: it will be a joy to take the stage with my friend @lindaclemons (Sisterpreneur founder) and @lizamickens (great-great-granddaughter of Richmond, VA banker Maggie Lena Walker) at @theashleynicoleshow Ashley Kirkwood’s SOLD OUT Black Women Sell Live conference. Ashley is a BOSS: a former trial attorney who walked away from a partner-track legal career to found a very successful sales training company.
Although the event is sold out, you can join the wait list, learn more about the organization and be ready for next year.
Link to Black Women Sell Live is above in the Linktree bio by @aleliabundles

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