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SUMMARY:Randal Jelks talk about My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy
DESCRIPTION:We are offsite at the Rosa Parks Museum for a truly special program featuring award-winning author and documentary producer Randal M. Jelks on Thursday\, May 7 starting at 5:30pm. We are pleased to bring him to Montgomery for a talk about My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy\, a new book in which he delivers a revelatory portrait of the celebrated poet\, essayist\, playwright\, and American artist. Jelks will be in conversation with poet Jaqueline Allen Trimble. Event co-sponsors include the Rosa Parks Museum\, League of Women Voters of Alabama\, and Read Freely Alabama.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/randal-jelks-talk-about-my-america-langston-hughes-on-democracy/
LOCATION:Rosa\, 252 Montgomery St\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36104\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:mike.breen@readherringbooks.com
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SUMMARY:The NewSouth Bookstore First Annual Poetry Read-Aloud
DESCRIPTION:The NewSouth Bookstore’s first annual poetry read-aloud: Join us in honor of National Poetry Month. We’ll gather chairs in a circle and sit together to listen as friends and fans each read aloud a favorite poem or two. We expect that the experience of sharing the verse we love best will be enlightening and enjoyable. Bring a friend. Wine and other beverages served\, as usual.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/the-newsouth-bookstore-first-annual-poetry-read-aloud/
LOCATION:NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S Court St\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36104-4003\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:mike.breen@readherringbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Nick Tabor at The NewSouth Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Nick Tabor joins us at The NewSouth Bookstore to discuss his new book\, Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created. The story focuses on the community founded by enslaved people carried to the Gulf Coast by the Clotilda\, the remains of which were recently discovered. That community was rooted in slavery\, but its people refused to let that be their only identity. In Africatown Yoruba was spoken\, and its residents appointed their own leaders. Today\, those living there battle the effects of pollution from surrounding industry and land developers. Tabor tells an evocative story about an inspirational history tied to this place.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/nick-tabor-at-the-newsouth-bookstore/
LOCATION:NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S Court St\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36104-4003\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:mike.breen@readherringbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Tim Spofford at the NewSouth Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Tim Spofford will be our special guest at the bookstore in connection with his new book\, which details a dramatic episode in Black history told in vivid detail for the first time. What the Children Told Us is the biography of Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Phipps Clark\, Harlem psychologists and racial justice pioneers\, who developed a controversial doll test. Using brown and white dolls\, their experiment played a key role in the landmark Supreme Court ruling against segregated school systems in 1954. Today\, Clark dolls are on exhibit at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington\, and at the Brown v. the Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka\, Kansas. What the Children Told Us has garnered many fine reviews. Booklist has this to say about it: “Part biography\, part history\, and part psychological study\, this emotionally charged book chronicles the lives of Kenneth and Mamie Clark as they challenged segregation by studying its effects on Black identity and self-esteem as early as childhood.” Spofford has a doctorate in English and worked for years in classrooms and newsrooms. He’s written for the New York Times\, Newsday\, Mother Jones magazine\, Columbia Journalism Review and other publications.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/tim-spofford-at-the-newsouth-bookstore/
LOCATION:NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S Court St\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36104-4003\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:mike.breen@readherringbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Kent Quaney at the NewSouth Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Kent Quaney\, Assistant Professor of English at AUM\, has a new novel out. One Breath from Drowning charts a tale of lost faith and lost love with insight. We’ll host him for a talk about it and a reading from the book on February 23. Come meet Kent and enjoy literary discussion with friends.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/kent-quaney-at-the-newsouth-bookstore/
LOCATION:NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S Court St\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36104-4003\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:mike.breen@readherringbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Caylor Roling and Amanda Edwards at the NewSouth Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Caylor Roling and Amanda Edwards of E.A.T. South give us the benefit of their expertise in composting in this special program conceived of for our NewSouth Bookstore friends and customers. The idea for this program developed from a story that appeared in the NY Times recently describing environmental issues\, which include methane generation\, posed by food waste disposed of in landfills. Roling and Edwards will discuss E.A.T. South’s composting plans\, City of Montgomery initiatives\, vermicomposting vs. traditional composting\, and provide tips to get started and more. Come get educated and inspired!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/caylor-roling-as-the-newsouth-bookstore/
LOCATION:NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S Court St\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36104-4003\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:mike.breen@readherringbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Jeff Miller at Read Herring
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Miller\, a 1976 Auburn University grad and career-long sportswriter\, will be at The NewSouth Bookstore on February 9 to recall Auburn’s legendary “Punt Bama Punt” football game at Legion Field\, a game that stunned Alabama\, which is the subject of his new book\, Teammates for Life. The book both recounts the team’s accomplishments and catches up with its players today. This will be a fun event as players Roger Mitchell\, Johnny Simmons\, Randy Walls\, and Rusty Deen will all be present to celebrate the release of Miller’s new book. Folks\, we will have no team partisanship here. All football fans in the state of Alabama are welcome! (Weather permitting\, we may be outside for this big event.)
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/jeff-miller-at-read-herring/
LOCATION:NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S Court St\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36104-4003\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="NewSouth Bookstore":MAILTO:mike.breen@readherringbooks.com
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