Event

Queen Sugar with Natalie Baszile

Queen Sugar is the inspiration for the OWN TV series.

Monday

February 23, 2026

7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Location

Copley Library, Mother Hill Reading Room

Cost

Free

Event Status

Open to the Public

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Queen Sugar with Natalie Baszile

Natalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar which was adapted for seven television seasons and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She has a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA, and an MFA from Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers. 

Join us as we discuss Natalie Baszile's debut novel, Queen Sugar, a mother-daughter story of reinvention -- about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana -- as well as her newest non-fiction book, We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land & Legacy, where she brings together essays, poems, conversations, portraits, and first-person narratives to tell the story of Black people's connection to the land from Emancipation to the present. 

This event is free and open to the public. 

Contact Cindy Espineli for more information: cespineli@sandiego.edu. 

Parking is available in the USD West Parking Lot. 

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