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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Marcus Books presents:

Ta-Nehisi Coates
"Between the World and Me"
Hosted by Greg Bridges

Wednesday, October 28, 7:30 PM
First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
advance tickets: $15 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or Marcus Books, Pegasus (3 sites), Moe's, Walden Pond Bookstore, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway's   S.F. - Modern Times. $18 door, KPFA benefit   www.kpfa.org/events  


Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (The New York Observer)

"This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it."

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and menbodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it?

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his sonand readersthe story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

"Powerful and passionate . . . profoundly moving . . . a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today."Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates's journey, is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory."Toni Morrison

"An instant classic and a gift to us all."Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns

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First Congregational Church of Berkeley (View)
2345 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States
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