Subject: You Are Invited: "An Evening with Charles Blow," Sept. 24
From: "Darren Walker, Ford Foundation President" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:01:13 -0400

INVITATION 

 An Evening With
 Charles Blow
 Author and New York Times Columnist 

 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
 6:30 - 7:30 pm
 Reception to follow 

 FORD FOUNDATION
 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY 10017 

 DARREN WALKER, president of the Ford Foundation, invites you to an evening with New York Times columnist Charles Blow, author of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” Please join us as we mark the launch of his remarkable memoir, capturing a childhood in segregated, dirt-poor rural Louisiana, the people who shaped his life—for better and for worse—and the personal torment and tensions he wrestled with as a young man. 

 “[The book] lays bare...what is beautiful, cruel, hopeful and despairing about race, gender, class and sexuality in the American South and our nation as a whole...” – Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow” 

 The event will feature Charles Blow in conversation with Darren Walker. 

 Please RSVP by Wednesday, Sept. 17: www.eveningwithcharlesblow.eventbrite.com.