Live Author Talk Watch Party with Lee Hawkins

Join us as we stream this live virtual author talk in the Johnson Community Room. We welcome you to our conversation with journalist and author Lee Hawkins as he talks to us about the examination of his family’s legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience in this riveting memoir, I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free. 

I Am Nobody’s Slave tells the story of one Black family's pursuit of the American Dream through the impacts of systemic racism and racial violence. This book examines how trauma from enslavement and Jim Crow shaped their outlook on thriving in America, influenced each generation, and how they succeeded despite these challenges.

There will be a "chat station" set up to ask the author questions. 

To watch at home, please register at https://libraryc.org/scrantonlibrary/67601.