The Ocean County Library presents a virtual discussion featuring author and feminist philosopher Lindsey Stewart on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m.

Stewart’s book, The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic, tells the stories of Negro Mammies of slavery, the Voodoo Queens and Blues Women of Reconstruction, and the Granny Midwives and textile weavers of the Jim Crow era.