REMEMBER ME NOW | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
Date and Time
Mar 6, 2023 6:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Mar 6, 2023 6:00 pm
450K
REMEMBER ME NOW | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
Join us to discuss the call for black women to be their own activists.
When Breonna Taylor was killed, her police report was virtually blank. Feeling as if she was suffocating in the initial silence and lack of public outcry, anti-racism educator and activist Faitth Brooks wondered, “Would the world care about and remember me if I was killed?”
In Remember Me Now, Faitth grapples with the answer, charting the story of her activist grandparents and ancestors, as well as chronicling her own journey as the first-generation suburbs kid who becomes an activist and organizer herself. Part manifesto, part love letter to Black women, Remember Me Now shows us how we learn to celebrate the fullness of ourselves—a holy, defiant, and necessary move in a world determined to silence us.
Filled with transporting stories, poems, and letters to sisters of all walks of life, Remember Me Now is a transformational read that calls Black women to be their own activists. It’s a reminder to all that Black women matter, and our lives, voices, and stories are worth everything.
Faith Brooks is joining the Busboys stage for a celebration and discussion of her new book. She will be joined in conversation by Ekemini Uwan. This event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of REMEMBER ME NOW will be available for purchase before and during the event. Please note that this event will not be livestreamed.
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Faitth Brooks is a writer, speaker, social worker, activist, and co-host of the Melanated Faith podcast. She engages in activism by working with nonprofits to find sustainable solutions to systemic issues, as well as by being a strategist and consultant for brands and influencers. Faitth has served as the director of programs and innovation for Be the Bridge and director of women’s empowerment for Legacy Collective. In addition to leveraging her speaking and social media platforms to enliven collective liberation centered on the sisterhood of Black women, Faitth is crafting a communal space where Black sisters can explore rest, tenderness, and softness.
Ekemini Uwan (pronounced Eh-keh-mi-knee Oo-wan) is a public theologian and co-author of the 2023 NAACP Image Award Nominated book Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. She co-hosts the award-winning podcast Truth's Table and Get In The Word With Truth’s Table. Uwan is a 2022 Aspen Ideas Festival Fellow, a member of the Aspen Institute’s Racial Justice and Religion Collective, and a 2023 Aspen Insitute Fellow. In addition to being an NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Debut, Ekemini is also a contributing writer for Hallmark Mahogany and a charter member of The International Civil Working Group of the Permanent Forum for People of African Descent at the United Nations.
Her writings have been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post Black Voices, and Christianity Today, to name a few. Ekemini has appeared on MSNBC, The Grio, and her insights are quoted by NPR, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker, among other publications. As one who is passionate about theology, Ekemini has a fierce commitment to the gospel and its implications for issues pertaining to racial injustice, anti-black racism, and white supremacy.
Ekemini believes that theology can and does speak to our present day's culture, social, and political issues. As a result, she often speaks, opines, and writes about the aforementioned for various online publications. Ekemini's voice has been sampled on Lecrae's album, All Things Work Together, and Sho Baraka's The Narrative.
