Cup of Truth: A Conversation on Joy Goddess

A live conversation with author A’Lelia Bundles about her new book | Re-Opening Weekend

Celebrate the return of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights with Cup of Truth, featuring journalist and author A’Lelia Bundles in conversation about her new book Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance.

Bundles brings to life her great-grandmother A’Lelia Walker — daughter of Madam C. J. Walker and a dazzling force of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Dubbed the “joy goddess of Harlem” by Langston Hughes, Walker inherited her mother’s empire and transformed it into a cultural salon for legends like Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

This is more than a biography. It’s a story of joy as resistance, legacy as power, and one woman’s quest to define herself on her own terms.