Author Talk With Jeffrey Blount

Press release from the City of Falls Church:

July 27, 2020

Posted on: July 27, 2020

Author Talk with Jeffrey Blount

Join us online (via Zoom) for a Talk with Author Jeffrey Blount on August 26 @ 7 pm.

Author Talk with Jeffrey Blount

Join us on Zoom, Wednesday, August 26th at 7 pm for a talk by local author Jeffrey Blount and a discussion about racial bullying, followed by a brief audience Q&A. Jeffrey is an Emmy award-winning television director, spending over 3 decades at NBC, and a 2016 inductee to the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. Mr. Blount will be interviewed by his wife Jeanne Meserve, an award-winning anchor and correspondent, formerly with CNN and ABC News, who now works worldwide as a moderator, and a security analyst for Canada’s CTV News.

About The Emancipation of Evan Walls: :

It is June 1968. The Civil Rights movement is winding down after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Negroes in the town of Canaan, Virginia have been used to acting the same, thinking the same and sharing in the unadulterated hatred of a common enemy. Evan is ten years old and, in the jargon of the times, young, gifted and black. In the presence of his parents and a summer porch gathering of their friends, he makes a startling declaration. From that moment on, the central question of his life is born. Is he black enough?

To request a Zoom invite, please email Marshall Webster at mwebster@fallschurchva.gov.

This press release was produced by the City of Falls Church. The views expressed are the author's own.