Join The Pop-Hop in welcoming local author Kathryn H. Ross for a reading, Q+A, and signing of her memoir BLACK WAS NOT A LABEL (2nd Edition) from Red Hen Press. Pick up a copy of your own, get it signed, and have your questions ready for an afternoon of literature, connection, and honest conversation.

BLACK WAS NOT A LABEL is a collection of essays that explores the intersection of faith and racial trauma and the attempt to come to terms with instances of otherness, isolation, racism, erasure, anger, and lost love. A look at life within the "veil" W.E.B. Du Bois spoke of in his work, The Souls of Black Folk, this collection is both catharsis and lamentation to God for the self and all who have felt trapped within this (sometimes impenetrable) veil.

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