{"id":109310,"date":"2021-01-29T13:26:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=109310"},"modified":"2021-02-01T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T15:56:35","slug":"square-books-black-history-month-virtual-event-charles-m-blow-in-conversation-with-bakari-sellers-for-the-devil-you-know-wednesday-february-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-black-history-month-virtual-event-charles-m-blow-in-conversation-with-bakari-sellers-for-the-devil-you-know-wednesday-february-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Black History Month Virtual Event: Charles M. Blow in conversation with Bakari Sellers for “The Devil You Know” \u2013 Wednesday, February 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

*This is a ticketed event. Admission is $5 or purchase of book.* <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acclaimed columnist and author Charles Blow<\/strong> never wanted to write a   \u201crace book.\u201d But as violence against Black people\u2014both physical and psychological\u2014seemed only to increase in recent years, culminating in the historic pandemic and protests of the summer of 2020, he felt compelled to write a new story for Black Americans. He envisioned a succinct, counterintuitive, and impassioned corrective to the myths that have for too long governed our thinking about race and geography in America. Drawing on both political observations and personal experience as a Black son of the South, Charles set out to offer a call to action by which Black people can finally achieve equality, on their own terms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what will it take to make lasting change when small steps have so frequently failed? It\u2019s going to take an unprecedented shift in power. The Devil You Know<\/strong> <\/em>is a groundbreaking manifesto, proposing nothing short of the most audacious power play by Black people in the history of this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles M. Blow <\/strong>is an acclaimed journalist and op-ed columnist for the New York Times<\/strong> <\/em>who  appears frequently on CNN. He is the author of the New York Times <\/em>bestselling memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones<\/strong><\/em>. He lives in Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Host:<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bakari Sellers <\/strong>made history in 2006 when, at just twenty-two years old, he defeated a twenty six-year incumbent State Representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature and the youngest African American elected official in the nation. In 2014 he was the Democratic Nominee for Lieutenant Governor in the state of South Carolina. Sellers is a CNN political analyst and served in the South Carolina state legislature. Recently named to Time<\/em>‘s “40 Under 40” list, he is also a practicing attorney who fights to give a voice to the  voiceless. He is also the author of the memoir My Vanishing Country<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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