Porkchops & Politics: featuring Kevin Powell

Kevin Powell

Please be our guest
Saturday, August 30, 2008
12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
South Dallas Café
3126 Grand Ave/ Dallas, TX 75215
Please R.S.V.P. by August 22nd
Tel: 214-670-7809
Email: larry.jefferson@dallaslibrary.org

Due to limited space, we require advanced registration for Pork Chops and Politics. The event includes a lecture and meal purchase of $10.00, payable on-site. Seating is limited to the first 50.

Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem asserts that "as a charismatic speaker, leader, and a very good writer, Kevin Powell has the courage...to be fully human, and this will bring the deepest revolution of all." Internationally acclaimed scholar and social critic Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has called Powell "a mighty wind of fresh air."

Political activist, poet, journalist, essayist, hip-hop historian, public speaker, and entrepreneur, Powell has published eight books, including Be a Father to Your Child: Real Talk from Black Men on Family, Love, and Fatherhood and Someday We’ll All Be Free. Powell’s two upcoming books include No Sleep Till Brooklyn and his second volume of poetry. Additionally, he is at work on his childhood memoir, homeboy alone, slated for 2010, and The Kevin Powell Anthology (2011), which will highlight the first twenty-five years of his literary career. Indeed, he has written numerous essays, articles, and reviews through the years for publications such as Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Essence, Rolling Stone, The Amsterdam News, and Vibe. Most recently Powell has been a Writing Fellow for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, as well as a Phelps Stokes Fund Senior Fellow. And Powell is currently a 2008 Democratic candidate for the United State Congress in Brooklyn, New York.

If you are not interested in attending the luncheon, please attend the book signing at the African American Museum.