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January 28, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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An Evening with Omo Moses
The Books & Books Literary Foundation presents…
AN EVENING WITH OMO MOSES
discussing
The White Peril: A Family Memoir
(Beacon Press, $29.95)
Tuesday, January 28th, 7 PM | Books & Books, Coral Gables
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The Books & Books Literary Foundation is proud to present an evening with Omo Moses discussing The White Peril: A Family Memoir (Beacon Press, $29.95). From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase the evening of the event! Please RSVP only if you intend to join us.
About the Book:
From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family
In The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather’s sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice.
Omo was born in 1972 in Tanzania, where his parents had fled to escape targeted harassment by the US government. He did not encounter white supremacy until the family moved back to America when he was 4. Here, he learned what it meant to be Black. He came of age in a Black enclave of Cambridge, Massachusetts, became a passionate basketball player, lived in the shadow of his father’s Civil Rights work but did not feel like a part of it until his college basketball career came to an unceremonious end. Unsure what to do next, he took up his father’s offer to go with him to Mississippi and teach math to Algebra Project students. Omo didn’t know it yet, but it was among those young people that he would find his purpose.
This book is at once a coming-of-age story, a multigenerational family memoir, an epic father-son road trip, a searing account of the Black male experience, and a work that powerfully revives Rev. Moses’s demand for liberation.