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An Evening with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

December 9, 2021 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free; advance regsistration is required.

The Center for Black Literature (CBL) at ϳԹ hosts an evening featuring Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author ofThe Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois(HarperCollins Publishers, 2021), in conversation withDr. Brenda M. Greene, founder of CBL. Jeffers’s epic debut novel explores the history of an African American family in the American South, from the time before the American civil war and slavery, through the Civil Rights Movement, to the present.

For over twenty years, Jeffers hasbeen lifting her voice on issues of Black culture, racism, American history, and gender through the medium of writing. She is an American poet, essayist, novelist, and professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She has published five collections of poetry, includingThe Age of Phillis(Wesleyan University Press, 2020), which won the NAACP Image Award of Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry and was longlisted for a National Book Award.

The New York TimesreviewedThe Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois.Read it. To learn more about the author, visit

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