From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a coming-of-age story about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family. Moses will be in conversation with longtime activist, Belvie Rooks.

Omo Moses, author of The White Peril: A Black Family's Struggle for Freedom from Jim Crow to Hip-Hop 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. Coming of age in a Black enclave of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he became a passionate basketball player and 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.

Book sales and signing to follow the conversation. 

Omo Moses is an activist, an educator, and a media maker. He is the Founder/CEO of MathTalk, an education technology company that creates products that inspire adults and kids everywhere, particularly those in economically distressed communities, to enjoy math. Moses is a member of the MSNBC Grio 100, a Huffington Post Person of the Day, and a Barr Foundation Fellow.

Belvie Rooks is co-founder of the Growing a Global Heart project. She is a writer, educator and human rights and social justice advocate whose work weaves the worlds of spirituality, feminism, cosmology and ecology. As an educator, Belvie was  invited to be part of the founding faculty of the College of Social Justice at the State University of New York (SUNY) Old Westbury. She has served as Visiting Faculty at Naropa University's Graduate Program in Environmental Studies, core faculty at Holy Names University's Sophia Center Program in Culture and Spirituality, and as a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz.

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