 T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and groups of the essayists were brought together on several occasions around the US with a few of them being recorded and one being aired on national cable television.In October 2009, "Book TV" (C-SPAN) aired a program of T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and five of the essayists, filmed at Vanderbuilt University in September 2009, reading excerpts and talking about the collection and their views on Obama's speech as well as the ideas of a post-racial America.The same month the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library presented a panel discussion of the book with several contributors.