POSTPONED | Ben Jealous Special Event | NEVER FORGET OUR PEOPLE WERE ALWAYS FREE | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
Date and Time
Feb 28, 2023 6:00 pm
Location
Columbia
6251 Mango Tree Rd, Columbia, Maryland, 21044
Feb 28, 2023 6:00 pm
Columbia
NEVER FORGET OUR PEOPLE WERE ALWAYS FREE | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
Join us to explore how we mend America’s broken heart together with Ben Jealous.
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free illuminates for each of us how the path to healing America’s broken heart starts with each of us having the courage to heal our own.The son of parents who had to leave Maryland because their cross-racial marriage was illegal, Ben Jealous’ lively, courageous and empathetic storytelling calls on every American to look past deeply-cut divisions and recognize we are all in the same boat now. Along the way Jealous grapples with hidden American mysteries, including:
Told as a series of parables, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free features intimate glimpses of political, and faith leaders as different as Jack Kemp, Stacey Abrams, and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and heroes as unlikely as a retired constable, a female pirate from Madagascar, a long lost Irishman, a death row inmate, and a man with a confederate flag over his heart. More than anything, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free offers readers hope America’s oldest wounds can heal and her oldest divisions be overcome.
Ben Jealous is joining the Busboys stage to celebrate his latest release and bring together Marylanders for a night of healing and racial equity. Copies of the book will be available for purchase online before the event on our Eventbrite, and in person at the event.
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 NEVER FORGET OUR PEOPLE WERE ALWAYS FREE will be available for purchase before and during the event. Please note that this event is IN PERSON at Busboys and Poets Columbia (6251 Mango Tree Road, Columbia, MD) and it WILL be livestreamed on Facebook and Youtube.
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Ben Jealous is a scholar, journalist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist. Jealous is the Sierra Club new Executive Director and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law, where he currently teaches a course on Leadership and Racial Justice and works with students in mentorship settings. From 2008 to 2013, Ben led the NAACP as the youngest-ever president and CEO of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization with more than 2,400 chapters. As a decades-long activist, an experienced civil rights leader, and coalition builder who has always brought together people, he was formerly Director of the Human Rights Program at Amnesty International USA, and Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of REACH: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding. A Rhodes Scholar and a past Democratic nominee for Governor of Maryland, he lives on the Chesapeake Bay with his children, Morgan and Jack, and their dog, Charlie.
