Author Talk – Kevin Sack with Alan C. Miller

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Join us for a compelling conversation between Kevin Sack, author of Mother Emanual, and Alan C. Miller.

“A masterpiece . . . a dense, rich, captivating narrative, featuring vivid prose . . . expansive, inspiring and hugely important.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

 

Kevin Sack is a veteran journalist who has written broadly about national affairs for more than four decades and has shared in three Pulitzer Prizes. Sack spent 30 years on the staff of The New York Times, where he was a senior writer, and worked previously for the Los Angeles Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His work also has been featured in The New York Times Magazine.

Sack is the author of Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church (Crown, June 3, 2025). It explores the 200-year history of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC, site of the 2015 massacre of nine parishioners by a young white supremacist. The project was supported by a New America Emerson Collective Fellowship and grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Alan C. Miller is the founder of the News Literacy Project, the leading provider of news literacy education in the country. He helped launch the field of news literacy when he started NLP in 2008. NLP’s award-winning resources are being used in all 50 states. Alan previously had a distinguished journalism career at The Times Union in Albany, New York, The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey, and the Los Angeles Times, where he worked for over 21 years. He won more than a dozen national reporting honors. This included the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which he shared with Kevin Sack. Alan and his wife own a home in Otis.