Black Detroit
Friday, November 3rd
7:00 pm
Join the Sembène Film & Arts Festival for a reading with award-winning journalist/activist Herb Boyd, as he discusses his latest book, Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination.
Black Detroit is a groundbreaking history of the struggles and resilience of African Americans from the city’s birth two hundred years ago until the present.
“Boyd…breathes new life into the history of Detroit through stories of the city’s black residents from its earliest days to its bittersweet present…He leaves no stone unturned, making his work an invaluable repository of all that is black Detroit.” – Publishers Weekly
Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943, as race riots were engulfing the city. In Black Detroit, he reflects on his life and this landmark place, combining deep passion and a stunning eye for detail to seamlessly blend personal experience, exhaustive research, and eyewitness accounts to document the Motor City’s work ethic and spirit of resistance.
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