Jabari Asim
presents
Yonder
Thursday, February 2, Doors open at 6:30pm; Event begins at 7pm
at the Ames Chapel/Friends of Hingham Cemetery
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Jabari Asim is the Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow and a Professor at Emerson College, has served as the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine—the NAACP’s flagship journal of politics, culture, and ideas. He was also an editor at The Washington Post, where he wrote a syndicated column on politics, popular culture, and social issues. His writing has appeared as well in Essence, The Baffler, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The New Republic, American Prospect, Yale Review, and elsewhere.
The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century.
They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives.
A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Insightful and searing essays that celebrate the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America by critically acclaimed writer Jabari Asim