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Night Flyer Events (to date)

June 20, 2024 Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
Event in conversation with Melissa Bartholomew
June 22, 2024 Concord Library (Concord, MA)
Event in conversation with Jacqueline Jones
July 20-22, 2024 TBD Sun Valley Writers Conference (Sun Valley, ID)
Book Talk
August 24, 2024 National Book Festival (D.C.)
In conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
September 21, 2024 New York State Equal Rights Heritage Center (Auburn, NY)
Book Talk
September 29, 2024 History Book Festival (Lewes, DE)
Closing keynote in conversation with Linda Harris
October 13, 2024 Book Talk and Signing at John Brown Farm State Historic Site
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October 25, 2024 Southern Historical Association Panel (Kansas City, MO)
“Tubman in the 21st Century” Roundtable
November 17, 2024 First United Methodist Church, Ann Arbor, MI
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November 24, 2024 Miami Book Festival, In Conversation with Edda Fields-Black
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February 18, 2025 Lessons from Harriet Tubman: A Model of Resistance, Resilience, and Hope
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February 22, 2025 Black History Month Celebration
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March 14-15, 2025 in Charleston, SC Spring Lectures with Tiya
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Historian Chronicles Intersection of Native-American and African-American Culture in Old South

“Historian Chronicles Intersection of Native-American and African-American Culture in Old South”  — Tiya speaks with Steve Goss from WABE Atlanta about the Chief Vann House and her research on Native-American and African-American cultures. February 2012.

Toward Living Memory,” with Tiya Miles

“Toward Living Memory” — Tiya speaks with host Krista Tippett on the NPR show, On Being, for Black History Month in February 2012.

Native Americans As Slaves, Slave Owners In North

“Native Americans As Slaves, Slave Owners In North” — Tiya speaks with NPR host Michel Martin about shedding light on the unexplored history of Native American and African-American slavery in Michigan, January 2012.

Native America Calling

“Native America Calling” — Originally aired on live radio interview on KTQX 91.5 FM Fresno, KIDE 91.3 FM Hoopa, KMPO 88.7 FM Modesto/Stockton. Topics included: What types of dynamics are exposed when “home for the holidays” includes bringing home a so-called outsider? Who is considered an outsider to your family? November 2011.

Interview by Tomeka Weatherspoon

Tiya was interviewed by Tomeka Weatherspoon with the Kansas City, MO NPR station, KQUR, on the Central Standard show. (Segment is in the last 10 minutes of the show.)

America’s 2nd Largest Indian Tribe Expels Blacks

“America’s 2nd Largest Indian Tribe Expels Blacks” — A radio interview by Tiya with NPR on why the Cherokee Nation recently stripped citizenship from a majority of African-Americans. Published on National Public Radio in September 2011.

African Americans & Native Americans — A Shared Experience?

“African Americans & Native Americans—A Shared Experience?” — Listen to this podcast from a 2007 radio interview on the NPR KERA (Dallas) “Think” Talk Show.