Name: The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates (Audio listening series) Jan 5 - Feb 2, 2025
Start: 2025-01-05T13:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-05T15:00:00-08:00

Join us online every Sunday in January, as we listen to Ta-Nehisi Coates read his latest book, "The Message". The last session will be in person where we'll break bread and listen to the last chapter together and discuss the whole book. **Note**: The audiobook is available for free if you have Spotify Premium

We'll listen to an hour and about an hour follow-up discussion. (1st session will be 1.5 hr w/ half hour follow-on discussion).

**About the book.**
In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, 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 his mind. Then he takes listeners along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book’s banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation’s recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city—a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book’s longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground.

[Listen ](https://www.cityarts.net/event/ta-nehisi-coates-4/)to a discussion of the book in discussion with Daniel Sokatch

[Zoom link](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87224246405?pwd=fuifS5wQsxvRzpLnf1SaLM1odDps2N.1)

**Schedule:**
Jan 5 - Intro, Dedication, Epigraph,
Chapter 1: Journalism is not a luxury
Chapter 2: On Pharaohs
Jan 12 - Chapter 3: Bearing the Flaming Cross
Jan 19 - Chapter 4: The Gigantic Dream, pt1
Jan 26 - Chapter 5: The Gigantic Dream, pt2
**Feb 2 - Chapter 6: The Gigantic Dream, pt3** (in person in my home).

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