Food for Thought 2020

City Barbeque of Highland Heights presents Food for Thought, a history series to stimulate your senses.
City Barbeque of Highland Heights presents Food for Thought, a history series to stimulate your senses.
Unfortunately, the December Let’s Talk About It program has been canceled due to illness. The program will be rescheduled for February.
Please check https://www.cc-pl.org/events in the coming weeks for the reschedule date.
Join us at our Cold Spring Branch to discuss Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Discussion led by Dr. Tonya Krouse of the NKU English Department.
Let’s Talk About It
NKU English professor Dr. Tonya Krouse will lead the discussion on Between the World and Me. Dr. Krouse is the author of multiple publications and critical essays:
Between the World and Me
“In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.” – Provided by publisher
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