Mar
20
11:00pm
Don Lemon & Joy-Ann Reid "This Is The Fire"
By Montclair Literary Festival
Don Lemon's new book This Is The Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism is an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, which he hopes will "help heal America". Host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, he will be talking with political analyst and MSNBC host of The ReidOut, Joy-Ann Reid on Saturday March 20 at 7 p.m.
Beginning with a letter to one of his Black nephews, Lemon reports and reflects on his slave ancestors, his upbringing in the shadows of segregation, and his adult confrontations with politicians, activists, and scholars. Lemon shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them, and offers a searing and poetic ultimatum to America: We must resist racism every single day. We must resist it with love.
'This is a vital book for these times'– Kirkus Reviews
Tickets cost $30 and include a copy of the book (value $28).The first 100 people to register will receive a signed copy of the book. Tickets can be bought via our ticketing platform here.
Books can be picked up at Festival partner watchung booksellers in Montclair after the release date of March 16, 2021, or shipped to your home address (additional cost, select option when selecting ticket).
Don Lemon is the host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Lemon was the leading voice on CNN guiding viewers through the death of George Floyd and a summer of nationwide protests and riots. Viewers also relied on his nightly coverage to guide them through a global pandemic.
Joy-Ann Reid is a political analyst for MSNBC and host of “The ReidOut” (weeknights 7 p.m. ET). She is the author of The New York Times bestseller The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story, as well as Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide and We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama, which she co-edited with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne. Reid also hosts the podcast “Reid This-Reid That” with veteran journalist Jacque Reid and a book podcast called “What to Reid". She has worked in local and national TV news, talk radio and as a press secretary during two presidential campaigns. Her columns have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, New York Magazine and The Daily Beast. Reid and her husband Jason own a documentary film production company. They reside in Maryland and have three children.
This event is part of Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival's special series of author events, Global Voices taking place on March 20 and March 21, 2021, and featuring authors and poets from England, Scotland, Ireland, Korea, Iran, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, and Spain. The fifth annual Montclair Literary Festival will take place on Saturday October 2, 2021, with a combination of live and online events.
See all of the talks by following us on Crowdcast here or visiting our website events page here.
Any proceeds from the festival benefit parent organization, Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education and opportunity gaps in Essex County, NJ. You can read more about Succeed2gether and the festival at www.succeed2gether.org.
The festival organizing committee wishes to thank event partners Montclair Public Library and Watchung Booksellers, and festival sponsors Rao's, West of Hudson Realty Group, Jill Williams (Ameriprise Financial), Ferguson Dental, the County of Essex, and community members.
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