Bards Alley To Host Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist

From Bards Alley: Bards Alley will be hosting Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Serrano for an hour-long talk, Q&A, and signing on Thursday, March 21 at 7:00 pm.

Serrano will discuss his latest book, Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Forth Leavenworth, an expose of the U.S. military's practice of racial discrimination in the legal system. Specifically, he reveals how, between 1955 and 1961, black and white soldiers condemned to death at Fort Leavenworth military prison for equally horrendous crimes received unequal treatment; all white soldiers were paroled and eventually returned to their families, while only black soldiers were hanged. This meditation on capital punishment is apt and timely at a time when race is being hotly debated.

Richard A. Serrano spent 45 years covering the Pentagon, the wars in Haiti and the middle east, the US Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Terror. He is the author of four other books: One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma Bombing, Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and The Mystery that Outlived the Civil War, American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, The Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and The Vanishing Wild West, and My Grandfather's Prison: A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City. Serrano lives in Fairfax, VA.
This event is free to attend with an RSVP on Bards Alley's Facebook event page. Seats will be available on a first come, first served basis.