Black History is for Everyone with Brain Jones

Schedule

Tue Oct 21 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Source Booksellers | Detroit, MI

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Join us for an enlightening evening where Brain Jones will share why Black History is essential for everyone to understand and appreciate!!!
About this Event

Detroit come out celebrate Black History is for Everyone : Essays on Race and a Nation with author Brian Jones. It is true that our history is under attach. We are interested in the glimpses of alternate futures as booksellers. We are delighted to host Brian Jones for this inspiring book.


Save your Spot!

You can get a ticket that supports the book and saves your seat at this link. The event with include a rich conversation. a Q & A session and booksigning line. We celebrate the release of this book September 30th. The event books will be available for pick up at the event. You may purchase a book before the event and join with free ticket.

Who may be intested:

Black History Buffs

Educators

Black Studies Scholars

About the Book:

A longtime educator explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are.
Black history is under attack from powerful forces that seek to excise it from classrooms, libraries, and the popular imagination. Yet its opponents fail to understand a simple truth: the best education challenges our assumptions, helps us see larger forces at work, and gives us glimpses of alternate futures.
In Black History Is for Everyone, Brian Jones offers a meditation on the power of Black history, using his own experiences as a lifelong learner and classroom teacher to question everything—from the radicalism of the American Revolution to the meaning of “race” and “nation.”
With warmth and immersive storytelling, Jones encourages us to delve deeper into our collective history, explores how curiosity about our world is essential—and reminds us that with stakes so high, the effort is worth it.

About the Author:

Brian Jones has taught many ages and grades in New York City’s public schools and the City University of New York. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library and was the associate director of education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The author of The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History, his writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Guardian, and Jacobin.


"Amid widespread political censorship and attacks, Black History Is for Everyone pulses with love, insight, and possibility. Brian Jones shares how Black history has challenged and energized his own thinking, inviting each of us to reflect on what we learn, why we learn it, and how it shapes our understanding of the nation and our place in the world. From Bacon’s Rebellion to the Haitian Revolution, this book reveals how those who came before us resisted oppression—and reminds us that study and struggle have always gone hand in hand."
—Ruha Benjamin, author of Imagination: A Manifesto

Black History is for Everyone is a love letter to students, a history lesson, and a critical analysis of the segregated schools—with too few Black teachers and too little Black history—that we have today. At a moment when many are shrinking from and erasing our history, Brian Jones pointedly shows us the many ways that the study of Black history enriches us all. This is the book we need to see the road forward.”
—Jeanne Theoharis, author of King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr's Life of Struggle Outside the South

“Brian Jones, one of our most insightful pedagogists, reminds us that the Black experience is so central to the American experience that no one’s education is complete without its examination. This book is required reading."
—Tracie D. Hall, former Executive Director, American Library Association


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Source Booksellers, 4240 Cass Avenue, Detroit, United States

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