Darnell L. Moore: No Ashes in the Fire
@ Currency Exchange Café
305 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, June 26th, from 7PM - 9PM
From a leading organizer with the Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ movements comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir of radical black love.
When Darnell L. Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his Camden, NJ neighborhood tried to set him on fire. Darnell was tall and awkward and constantly bullied by those who saw him as other. That afternoon, the boys doused him with gasoline and tried lighting a match—but it was too windy. It was not the last time he would face death.
What happens to the black boys who come of age in neglected, heavily policed, and economically desperate cities that the War on Drugs and mass incarceration have created? How do they learn to live, love, and grow up? Where should they turn when history rejects their very existence? Darnell explores these questions in NO ASHES IN THE FIRE.
Join us for a conversation with Darnell L. Moore and Luvvie Ajayi at the Currency Exchange Cafe. Books will be available for sale.
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