Come join us for the launch of philosopher John P. Clark's new book, BETWEEN EARTH AND EMPIRE: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community.

Please join us for at the main New Orleans Public Library where journalist and author Daniel Brook will discuss his newly published book, The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction, and the research methods that enabled him to bring to life Reconstruction-era civil rights struggles in Charleston and New Orleans.  Mr. Brook will be in conversation with Greg Osborn from the Library's Louisiana Division/City Archives & Special Collections.

The imposition of the black-white binary racial system at the collapse of Reconstruction brought wrenching social, political, and personal consequences from which we are still reeling today. But it also brought an indomitable spirit of resistance.

"A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white....The Accident of Color revisits a crucial inflection point in American history. By returning to the birth of our nation’s singularly narrow racial system, which was forged in the crucible of opposition to civil rights, Brook illuminates the origins of the racial lies we live by." - from the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED BECAUSE THE AUTHOR'S FLIGHT WAS CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER

Please join us for a special evening featuring award-winning environmental journalist, Amanda Little on her recently released book, THE FATE OF FOOD: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, and Smarter World, in conversation with writer Nathaniel Rich, author of LOSING EARTH: A Recent History.

Amanda Little, a Vanderbilt University professor and an award-winning environmental investigative journalist – and a failed vegetarian, a lousy backyard farmer, and a mother of little kids – whose new book is sort of Eat, Pray, Love meets The Sixth Extinction. And here’s why: