Wednesday evenings via March 20, be a part of the Church of the Redeemer for their VOICES Series. VOICES, the Redeemer Speaker Series invitations up to date voices to problem and inform us: artists and authors, visionaries and thought leaders, advocates of change brave sufficient to carry the loveliness and sorrow of the world directly and discover the surprise in each.
All occasions will probably be held in the church beginning at 7:00 p.m.
March 13: Scott Shane
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
Baltimore resident Scott Shane was a reporter for 15 years at The New York Times, the place he was twice a member of groups that gained Pulitzer Prizes, and earlier than that for 21 years at The Baltimore Sun. Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland is a riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and author Thomas Smallwood, who purchased his personal freedom, led lots of out of slavery, and named the underground railroad.
Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all however misplaced to historical past. Flee North additionally portrays the harmful enemies confronted by Smallwood, and his allies, together with Baltimore’s Hope Slatter, who ran his slave-buying and selling enterprise from the Inner Harbor.
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March 20: Joseph Hooper
Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina
Joseph Hooper is a local Baltimorean, and graduate of Calvert and Gilman colleges. He has made his profession in New York City the place, as a contract journalist, his work has been printed in The New York Times Magazine, New York, Popular Science, Men’s Journal and Elle. Joe will probably be joined for this presentation by Ashley Johnson. Ashley was a rookie FBI agent at the time of the murders and was largely accountable for fixing the case and making an attempt to deliver the criminals to justice together with lead creator and Justice Department prosecutor, Jared Fishman.
In 2009, legal professional Jared Fishman, then an inexperienced Civil Rights prosecutor was despatched by the Department of Justice to New Orleans to analyze rumors that the police could have had one thing to do with the 2005 capturing dying and disappearance of an unarmed Black man, Henry Glover, in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina.
About 5 years in the past, Joseph Hooper joined forces together with his pal, legal professional Jared Fishman, to co-write the story of this most extraordinary civil rights case.
From Publisher’s Weekly: This riveting true crime saga begins in 2009 when Fishman, then working in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, got here throughout a file on Henry Glover, a Black man whose physique was present in a burned-out automotive atop a breached New Orleans levee after Hurricane Katrina. This launched a yearlong FBI investigation that culminated in the conclusion that Glover was killed by a white police officer and it was lined up by the New Orleans Police Department.
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The Ivy Bookshop, a longtime companion in our VOICES sequence, will preserve a show of books in their retailer for our spring 2024 sequence. They will probably be at Redeemer to promote books for our speaker sequence on February 28, March 13 and March 20. We are grateful for this ongoing partnership.
