The powerful memoir ☛NO ASHES IN THE FIRE: COMING OF AGE BLACK & FREE IN AMERICA [pub: Nation Books] by Darnell L. Moore drops next Tuesday, May 29th! Lucky for us the author and activist is going on a nationwide book tour. Hope to see you in Brooklyn this Thursday, May 31st at BAM where Moore celebrates his book launch iwith Marc Lamont Hill, Kiese Lamon, Brittney Cooper, and Kierna Mayo .
Per Hachette:
When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they assumed he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It wasn’t the last time he would face death.Three decades later, Moore is an award-winning writer and activist, a leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and a tireless advocate for justice and liberation. In No Ashes in the Fire, he sets out to understand how that scared, bullied teenager not only survived, but found his calling. Moore traces his life from his childhood in Camden, New Jersey, a city scarred by uprisings and repression; to his search for intimacy in the gay neighborhoods of Philadelphia; and, finally, to the movements in Newark, Brooklyn, and Ferguson where he could fight for those who, like him, survive on society’s edges. No Ashes in the Fire is a story of beauty and hope – and an honest reckoning with family, with place, and with what it means to be free.
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