The Hangout – If Beale Street Could Talk

Limited seats! Join us for this bookish hangout featuring the classical love novel by James Baldwin.

The novel concerns a young couple in Harlem in the early 1970s: Tish, 19 years old and pregnant, and Fonny, 22 years old and incarcerated. Flashbacks recount how Tish and Fonny met and fell in love, and how they arrived at their predicament. Fonny is awaiting trial for a crime falsely pinned on him by Officer Bell, a white cop bent on exercising his authority over young black men. Once Bell ensnares Fonny in the system, the bureaucracy of incarceration is shown to be invested in suppressing anything that could disprove an innocent man’s guilt. – Slate

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Live reading, poetry, and music performances.

Remember to bring your wine, favorite drinks, books, etc. to share with our community.