A Renaissance of Our Own

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 From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful approach to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building liberating new ones.

The Covenant of Water

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Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor and Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a best-selling author and a physician with a reputation for his focus on healing in an era where technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Verghese, the author of Cutting for Stone (published in 2009) that became a literary phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million copies in the United States and remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years.

Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel 
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah – author of The New York Times bestselling debut Friday Black – is back with an action-packed, visionary, and wholly unique new novel. Chain Gang All Stars centers on two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system (not so far-removed from America’s own).

Tayari Jones – A New York Times best-selling author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage published in 2018

More Than I Imagined…What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew

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An award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he’d never met—and how faith brought them all together. Blake covered some of the biggest stories about race in America for twenty-five years before realizing that “facts don’t change people, relationships do.” He only discovered that after experiencing what he calls “radical integration.” It was the only way forward for him and his family—and it’s the only way forward for America as a multiracial democracy. More Than I Imagined is a hopeful story for our difficult times.

Registration: https://www.wabe.org/events/buried-truths-live-race-rage-in-terrible-terrell/

[NOTE: This event will start at 6:30 pm, not 7:00 pm.] Buried Truths focuses on civil rights cold cases in Georgia and how they can enlighten our understanding of today’s society, particularly on matters of race. This season focuses on the murder of a young black man by police in 1958 in Dawson, Georgia. The reason for his murder? They did not like that he was driving a nicer car than they did.  This crime is used to illustrate the plight of the Black citizens of Terrell County under a reign of terror conducted by the police and sheriff.  

The May 2 event will feature Hank Klibanoff recapping the season and having a conversation with family members of both the victims and perpetrators to see how a violent hate crime can reverberate for generations with dire impact. Additionally, this event will have a musical performance---singer/songwriter Caroline Herring will debut a song she wrote inspired by this season of Buried Truths.