The Schomburg Center is pleased to present award-winning biographer A’Lelia Bundles’s new book, Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, a vibrant, deeply researched biography of A’Lelia Walker – daughter of Madam C. J. Walker and herself a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance – written by her journalist great-granddaughter. The book, published by Scribner, is on sale June 10, 2025. Following the conversation, a special advance book signing will follow.

This program is a pre-Schomburg Centennial Festival event presented in person and streamed to our global audience online on YouTube.com/TheSchomburgCenter.