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DESCRIPTION:Please join Morgan State's Program for the Study of the Middle 
 East & North Africa and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism\
 , Immigration\, and Colonialism for this landmark event. The award-winning
 \, bestselling author and Baltimore native Ta-Nehisi Coates will speak wit
 h Sara Rahnama (Morgan State\, History) and Nathan Connolly (Johns Hopkins
 \, History) to address the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the dest
 ructive myths that shape our world. Coates will address how traveling to S
 enegal\, South Carolina\, and occupied Palestine caused him to rethink how
  he had accepted certain myths about politics\, history\, and social chang
 e. This event has been rescheduled from when it was originally set to take
  place on February 11 but was canceled because of inclement weather.\n\nPl
 ease use this link to RSVP.\n\nDoors will open at 6 p.m.\, and the event w
 ill begin at 7 p.m. Books will be available for purchase.\n\nThis event is
  free and open to all to be accessible to as many students and community m
 embers as possible. We ask attendees who are able to consider a suggested 
 donation of $20. Your support will enable our program to fund study abroad
  travel for Morgan students who lack the financial resources to otherwise 
 do so. Study abroad is a critical tool for Morgan students to experience n
 ew cultures and expand their understanding of the world. Every contributio
 n\, no matter the size\, helps make that possible.\n\n \n\nAbout The Messa
 ge:\n\nTa-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing\,
  in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language\,
 " but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories
 —our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and di
 stort our realities.\n\nIn the first of the book's three intertwining essa
 ys\, Coates\, on his first trip to Africa\, finds himself in two places at
  once: in Dakar\, a modern city in Senegal\, and in a mythic kingdom in hi
 s mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia\, South Carolina\
 , where he reports on his own book's banning\, but also explores the large
 r backlash to the nation's recent reckoning with history and the deeply ro
 oted American mythology so visible in that city—a capital of the Confede
 racy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Fina
 lly\, in the book's longest section\, Coates travels to Palestine\, where 
 he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist n
 arratives\, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we 
 tell and the reality of life on the ground.\n\nWritten at a dramatic momen
 t in American and global life\, this work from one of the country's most i
 mportant writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the d
 estructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace th
 e liberating power of even the most difficult truths.
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LOCATION:Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
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CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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