EDC Community Event: A Conversation with Nico Slate

The Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC) is pleased to host Nico Slate as part of our EDC Community Event Series.

Date and Time: Friday, May 2nd, 2025 from 5:30pm to 7pm

Type of ticket: free

Location: Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC), 976 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

About This Event: The Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC) is pleased to host Nico Slate as part of our EDC Community Event Series. Nico Slate is a Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University, and the author of Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race.

EDC fights to uphold housing as a basic human right, helping people stay in their homes and protecting San Francisco’s most vulnerable populations from eviction and homelessness. We are excited to offer this conversation with Nico, whose perspective on race in the United States and research on democracy worldwide are sure to lead to a thought-provoking evening.

Light refreshments, including wine and finger foods, will be served. Donations will be welcome, but optional, at the event itself.

More about the book

Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race

Brothers is Nico Slate’s poignant memoir about Peter Slate, aka XL, a Black rapper and screenwriter whose life was tragically cut short. Nico and Peter shared the same White American mother but had different fathers. Nico’s was White; Peter’s was Black. Growing up in California in the 1980s and 1990s, Nico often forgot about their racial differences until one night in March 1994 when Peter was attacked by a White man in a nightclub in Los Angeles. Nico began writing Brothers with the hope that investigating the attack would bring him closer to Peter. He could not understand that night, however, without grappling with the many ways race had long separated him from his brother. This is a memoir of loss—the loss of a life and the loss at the heart of our racial divide—but it is also a memoir of love. The love between Nico and Peter permeates every page of Brothers. This achingly beautiful memoir presents one family’s resilience on the fault lines of race in contemporary America.

More about Nico Slate

Nico Slate is a Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University, and the author of four books, including The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India, Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India and Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind.

More about EDC

The Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC) believes that housing is a basic human right. EDC fights to uphold this right, helping people stay in their homes and protecting San Francisco’s most vulnerable populations from eviction and homelessness. We work to reach housing solutions through an integrated, collaborative approach that brings together free legal representation, rental assistance, and support for residents of homeless shelters. EDC provides support services that address root causes of homelessness and advocates for changes to address the unfairness and inequity in housing. EDC is a lifeline for people faced with losing their homes. We are here to help.

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