Ted will be a featured author at the Annapolis Book Festival. Stay tuned here for more information!

Join us as Dr. Johnson makes an invitation—and a challenge—to all of us to confront structural racism, an endeavor born of lived experience as a black son of the American south and love of this country he took an oath to preserve. RSVP here

Join New America’s New Models of Policy Change Initiative and Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) for the launch of an essay series considering what it would look like to center equity and racial justice in the U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS). The authors will discuss redefining security, decolonizing aid, how race relations have been weaponized to weaken our democracy, exporting diversity as an American value, and much more.

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Ted will deliver a virtual book talk to Southern Methodist University law school faculty and students as part of its Diversity Week.

Johnson will speak on “The Challenge of Black Patriotism,” a topic about which he wrote in The New York Times Magazine several months ago. The lecture, which is open to the public and is also being livestreamed, will be at 6:30 p.m. in Knott Auditorium.

Ted Johnson makes his Thursday Night Bulwark debut appearance this week. He’ll join Tim, JVL and Will to discuss the news of the day.

Exclusively for Bulwark+ members! Join here

Dr. Johnson will lead us on the path to learn the history of racism, especially in America, educating us about the complexities of the issue and the future of our democracy.

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Ted will be giving a book talk at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law - an interdisciplinary center that bridges the worlds of scholarship and policy. His talk is part of the center’s weekly seminar featuring research related to the many dimensions of social, political, and economic development.

Details available here!

Ted will be in conversation with best-selling author Heather McGhee at the Ash Center and Harvard University’s Kennedy School. This is a virtual event with registration information to come!

Ted will be in conversation with NPR’s Michel Martin to discuss the ideas in his book When the Stars Begin to Fall. This will be an in-person evening event in Washington, DC - location forthcoming

In this virtual event, Ted will discuss how the ALM degree impacted his professional journey and led to his book When the Stars Begin to Fall. Registration information to come!

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Ted will be giving an in-person book talk at Perry World House, a center for scholarly inquiry, teaching, research, international exchange, policy engagement, and public outreach on pressing global issues. He’ll be talking about the ontological security argument in his book and its relationship to race and American democracy.

Registration details forthcoming and will be available here.

The online discussion will call each of us—whether we hold the title of elected official, parent, teacher, student, volunteer, manager, leader, reporter, officer, artist, technologist, neighbor, or voter—to reflect on our role in defining, living, and spreading civic values such as education and participation in a public arena that is too often marred by incivility, gridlock, and distrust.

Viewing details here!

A in-person book talk with Northeastern University’s students and faculty on race, politics, and our democratic society. Ted will be in conversation with Professor Dan Urman.

Campus location details forthcoming.

Ted will be holding a talk on his new book at this 7th annual literary lawn party! The prize-winning lineup of panelists is still taking shape and there will be something of interest for everyone. See more info here!

STATE CAPITOL BUILDING & GROUNDS | JACKSON, MS | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC

WorldBoston's Chat & Chowder features key authors on international affairs in an engaging setting. Even virtually, the spirit of Chat & Chowder persists! Join us for a conversation about When the Stars Begin To Fall, which makes a compelling, ambitious case for a pathway to the national solidarity necessary to mitigate racism.

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Author Theodore R. Johnson discusses When the Stars Begin to Fall with Secretary Ray Mabus on Wednesday, July 7th at 6:00 pm CT on Zoom.

This event is free to attend but registration is required. Click here to RSVP.

Theodore R. Johnson comes to Politics & Prose and will be in conversation with CNN’s Karen Finney to discuss his new book When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America!

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Ted returns to his hometown of Raleigh, NC for the first in-person event for his book. Raleigh is where much of the core portions of the book takes place, and Ted will discuss the challenge of race relations in America in the place where many of the lessons for solidarity came together for him. Join us!

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Register to attend in-person here (comes with a hardcover book and reserved seat!)

Join us for a virtual conversation centered around the central theme of Johnson's passionate literary debut - that the best way to counter systemic racism is through political action steeped in 'civil religion' or a belief in the power of American ideals over differences in race, class, and ethnicity. Johnson sits down with Awista Ayub, director of the fellows program at Washington-based New America where Johnson wrote much of the book proposal as an Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow.

The lecture is free admission, but registration is required. Please sign up online.

Ted will moderate this book event with Clint Smith, who explains how a deeper understanding of the legacy of slavery can help the United States better address its current injustices.

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Join us for a book conversation for Theodore R. Johnson’s When the Stars Begin to Fall with AEI Fellow and author Thomas Chatterton Williams.

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Join us for the book release of Theodore R. Johnson’s examination of the effects of racism in America and the path to national solidarity, to be moderated by Anne-Marie Slaughter (CEO, New America).

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PUBLICATION DAY - BOOK LAUNCH for Theodore R. Johnson’s When the Stars Begin to Fall!

Join the Brennan Center for Justice, the New York Public Library, and Ted as he holds his first event for his new book. He’ll be in conversation with historian and Brandeis University professor Leah Wright Rigueur.

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Please join CNAS for the fourth event in a multi-part discussion series on race in the military. This session will focus on the role of military service as a pathway to citizenship, the development of social capital, and as an expression of democratic participation.

The panelists will include Dr. Theodore Johnson and Meg Guliford. The panel will be moderated by Anthony Robinson of the National Democratic Training Committee and CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow Dr. Jason Dempsey.

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The National Constitution Center and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University present a new panel in their ongoing partnership of conversations about how to restore the guardrails of American democracy. On the heels of a contentious presidential and Senate election season, an unprecedented number of voting bills have been introduced across the nation. Theodore Johnson of the Brennan Center for Justice; Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute; Kim Wehle, author of What You Need to Know About Voting—And Why; and Rich Lowry of National Review, discuss the most significant legislation being considered, the constitutional issues they present, and what the Supreme Court might say. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

Join us for this enlightening talk on the challenges of finding bonds of connection—civic, political, and social—across lines of race and ethnicity, building to multiracial national solidarity. Dr. Johnson, an expert on race relations and public policy, is a contributor to media outlets across the political spectrum, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

RSVP to racial.justice.sjn@gmail.com by April 22

Eight attendees will be selected at random to receive a signed copy of Dr. Johnson’s forthcoming book, When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America.