The Kevin Powell Reader : Essential Writings and Conversations

Kevin Powell

ISBN 10: 1636141013 / ISBN 13: 9781636141015

Published by Akashic Books, Ltd. Apr 2023, 2023

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Neuware - A hopeful and insightful collection by one of the great voices of our time.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Kevin Powell Reader : Essential Writings and Conversations
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd. Apr 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1636141013
• ISBN 13: 9781636141015
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 152H x 43D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 43 millimeters depth
• Weight: 658 grams

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Synopsis

A hopeful and insightful collection by one of the great voices of our time.

“The Kevin Powell Reader is an electric and deeply inspiring selection from Powell’s lifework, spanning the Reagan-Bush years of AIDS and crack epidemics to our current era framed by the COVID-19 pandemic; the tragic killing of George Floyd; the #MeToo movement; and much more.” ―Essence

Kevin Powell is one of the most prolific and acclaimed American writers, thinkers, activists, and public speakers of the past three decades. His writings are important contributions to our national conversations on race, gender, class, politics, pop culture, celebrity, hip-hop, and the past, present, and future of the United States.

The Kevin Powell Reader is an electric and deeply inspiring selection from Powell’s lifework, spanning the Reagan-Bush years of AIDS and crack epidemics to our current era framed by the COVID-19 pandemic; the tragic killing of George Floyd; the #MeToo movement; and much more. In a journey that has produced fifteen books, countless cover stories, hundreds of published pieces, and definitive writings on iconic figures like Stacey Abrams, Dave Chappelle, Kerry Washington, Sidney Poitier, Cicely Tyson, Kobe Bryant, Tupac Shakur, Aretha Franklin, and Kendrick Lamar, Powell is a voice for our times, and a voice that is timeless.

This collection also tracks Powell’s personal struggles and his unwavering honesty about himself and the world around him. The Kevin Powell Reader captures twenty-first-century America with hope, insight, and the urgent need to preserve freedom and justice for all people.

About the Author

Kevin Powell is a poet, journalist, essayist/blogger, public speaker, civil and human rights activist, filmmaker, and the author of fifteen previous books, including a new poetry collection, Grocery Shopping with My Mother. His next book will be a biography of Tupac Shakur. A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Powell lives and thrives in New York City, in the borough of Brooklyn. His latest work is The Kevin Powell Reader.