Social Justice Power Hour!
Throwback Thursday
Special rebroadcast of this extraordinary show with our dear friend & stalwart ally
Kiese Laymon
A Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi, Kiese is the author of the genre-bending novel, “Long Division”, the essay collection, “How to Slowly Kill Yourself & Others in America” & his bestselling memoir, “Heavy: An American Memoir”, won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, & was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. The audiobook, read by Kiese his own self, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. He is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard & is now hard at work on several new projects, including the long poem, “Good God”, the horror comedy, “& So On”, the children’s book, “City Summer, Country Summer “ as well as the film version of “Heavy”. He is the founder of The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts & Justice Initiative, a program aimed at getting Mississippi kids & their parents more comfortable reading, writing, revising & sharing.
Join Kiese & our own BRCSJ Chief Activist Robt Seda-Schreiber in virtual community-buildin' conversation as meaningful as it was FABULOUS!

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