The Detroit Housewives’ League Author Event with Nzinga Lejeune

We are delighted to host Nzinga Lejeune to celebrate her book The Detroit Housewives League on September 10th, 2025. This event will include a book talk, Q & A and booksigning. The event will be an hour and there will a booksigning line.

There are free and book tickets at this link. The free ticket will reserve you a seat and the book ticket will secure you at book at the event.

About the Book:

BASED ON A TRUE STORY SET IN THE 1930'S ABOUT HOW A GROUP OF AFRICAN- AMERICAN WOMEN BURNED DOWN A MEAT PACKING INDUSTRY DEMANDING “DON’T SHOP WHERE YOU’RE NOT HIRED” ORGANIZING ECONOMIC UNITY.___________Ruth and her family recently moved from the south to bustling Detroit, Michigan with aspirations of creating a business for themselves but when a meat packing plant fires all the black men in the community, The Detroit Housewives' League takes charge with demands of their own.____________During the 1930's in an area of Detroit called Black Bottom over 300 black businesses thrived but not without resentment. An auxiliary organization of the Booker T. Washington Trade Association was created by Fannie Peck with fifty women called The Detroit Housewives' League. An organization that grew to 10,000 members organizing black women to have the largest boycott of a meat factory in the United States. A story untold and unknown by many created economic unity in the black community.

About the Author:

is a Detroit poet, author, screenwriter, and indie-film producer. In 2017 she wrote poetry book, children's book, and produced a documentary-short all titled #WaterINJUSTICE about the Flint Water Crisis and illegal Detroit Water Shutoffs. Her second poetry book is titled Plandemic and third titled Valley of the Moon. Her indie films include Check-In (about a friend who was murdered while teaching overseas and organs harvested), Black Fathers Matter, Sci-fi short-film Seventh Frequency, and upcoming feature boxing/crime/drama film GRATIOT. Currently a screenwriter on the new hit TV-Shows STREET LEGAL and STREET LEGAL SOUTH.

She is a graduate of Martin Luther King Jr., Sr. High School, Hampton University -BA degree in education, alifornia State University-multi language learning, Marygrove College-MA degree in Social Justice, and in 2021 completed Harvard University's Women in Leadership program for Emerging Leaders.

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