Yusef Salaam will speak Monday night at Revolution Books in Harlem. Photo: Hakim Mutlaq
Revolution Books Black History Month Calendar: Yusef Salaam, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and More
“In the Age of Trump-Pence Fascism: Black History–The Fight for Emancipation and the Future”
Monday, February 13, 7:00pm
Yusef Salaam of the Central Park 5. In Conversation with Andy Zee and Carl Dix: “How the Trump Regime Will Be ‘Giuliani Time’ on Steroids, and What This Will Mean for Humanity.”
Who better to bring this vividly to life than Yusef who, along with four other Black youth, spent 13 years in prison for the rape of a women in Central Park based on fabricated evidence and false confessions forced through torture. Donald Trump took out full-page ads calling for their execution. Even after the 5 were completely exonerated through DNA evidence, as recent as last year during the presidential campaign Trump insisted the boys, now grown men, were guilty.
Yusef Salaam, along with Andy Zee and Carl Dix, are among the initiators of RefuseFascism.org
$10*- advance tickets or call 212-691-3345. or pay what you can at door.
Friday, February 17, 7:00pm
Daina Ramey Berry author of new book. “The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation”
The first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives-including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death-in the early American domestic slave trade.
“Searing, revelatory, and vital to understanding our nation’s inequities.”– Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.
$10 donation* suggested, no one turned away.
Friday, February 24, 7:30pm.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o. World-renowned Kenyan novelist, post-colonial theorist and prisoner of conscience Ngugi wa Thiong’o, will be joined by fellow Kenyan writers Peter Kimani & Mukoma Wa Ngugi. RB spokesperson Andy Zee will host.
$10*- advance tickets or call 212-691-3345 or pay what you can at door.
Many more Black History Month events coming:
* Kraal Kayo Charles & Brad Walrond, February 26
* Saturday morning Children’s Programs, Feb 18 & Feb 25
For full schedule, www.revolutionbooksnyc.org
Events and programming at RB are sponsored by the Revolution Books Educational Fund Inc., a not-for-profit organization authorized by the IRS to receive tax-deductible contributions. Please give generously so we can do more programs and publicize the bookstore all over.
Revolution Books. 437 Malcolm X Blvd @ 132nd
Take #2/3 to 135th Stop
Call 212-691-3345
12 noon til 9pm daily, except Monday
