New York Times Bestselling author and National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi is coming to New Haven to celebrate the release of his new book, Malcolm Lives!.
Possible Futures, Kulturally Lit, and the Muslim Leadership Lab at Yale invite you to join us for an important discussion celebrating the life and legacy of the one and only, Malcolm X, just days after the 100th anniversary of his birth.
This is a fortuitous opportunity that anchors our collective 12-month celebration of the Year of X. It is also an essential educational experience.
In this historical moment, our freedoms - including the freedom to learn, and the freedom to read - are under attack. It is as important as ever to uplift, preserve, and honor Black history as essential history for everyone.
Malcolm Lives! is a narrative biography that is geared toward middle grades and YA readers. And like so many other books for younger people, this one is also an excellent option for readers of any age. Bring yourself, and bring beloved young ones, too.
Ibram will be in conversation with Professor Siobhan Carter-David.
*** Ticket price admits one, and includes a SIGNED copy of Malcolm Lives!. ***
About the book:
In collaboration with the Malcolm X Estate, this powerful biography for young readers is a modern classic in the making, written by #1 New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi.
Published 100 years after his birth, Malcolm Lives! is a ground-breaking narrative biography of one of the most influential Americans of all time. Dr. Kendi expertly crafts a propulsive telling of Malcolm X’s life—from birth to death. He provides context for both Malcolm’s choices—and those around him—not just painting an intimate picture of a famous figure, but of the social and political landscape of America during the civil rights movement. Ultimately, Malcolm's true legacy is a journey toward anti-racism. Just like history, Malcolm lives. With short, evocative chapters, exclusive archival documents, photographs from the Malcolm X Collection at the NYPL Schomburg Center, and extensive backmatter,this is a thoughtful and accessible, must-read for all Americans.
About Ibram:
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is a National Book Award-winning author of books for adults and children, including New York Times bestsellers like Stamped From the Beginning, Stamped for Kids, How to Raise an Anti-Racist, and Goodnight Racism. Dr. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities at Boston University, and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
About Siobhan:
Siobhan Carter-David is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, affiliate faculty in Women's and Gender Studies, and co-director of Africana Studies at Southern Connecticut University in New Haven, Connecticut. She teaches in the areas of fashion studies, women's and gender studies, and African American/Diaspora and contemporary United States histories. As a public historian, she has worked with museum and special collection curators on projects involving various facets of African American and broad-based United States cultural history. She is the author of several chapters and articles in edited volumes, exhibition catalogues, and academic journals, and is completing a book manuscript, Issuing the Black Wardrobe: Magazines and Fashion Post-Soul.
Doors open at 1:00pm. All tickets are non-refundable. Street parking available. Children older than 5-years old need a ticket for entry.