RSVP: Author Talk with Lee Hawkins

Lee Hawkins, author of I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free, visits ThirdSpace Reading Room on August 9th.

I AM NOBODY’S SLAVE is not only a memoir that tells one family’s story in America, but a call to action. Hawkins argues for “a more responsible, complex understanding of patriotism,” informed by the lived experiences of both Black and White Americans whose ancestors were directly involved in the country’s darkest and most redemptive chapters. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 

LEE HAWKINS was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist as a lead reporter on a series about the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 at the Wall Street Journal, where he worked for nineteen years. He has received several fellowships, including The Carter Center’s Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Alicia Patterson Foundation Journalism Fellowship, the O’Brien Fellowship for Public Service Journalism, the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism National Fellowship for reporting on child well-being. Hawkins is a five-time winner of the National Association of Black Journalists’ “Salute to Excellence” Award. He is the creator and host of the podcast “What Happened in Alabama?” and lives in the New York City area.

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