Hip-Hop Historian Kevin Powell Preps Book On Presidential Elections, 9/11, Katrina Disaster
Award-winning writer and Hip-Hop historian Kevin Powell is set to release his seventh book, Someday We’ll All Be Free, a collection of three essaysinspired by 9/11, the 2004 presidential election and Hurricane Katrina.
The three essays, inspired by Powell’s personal visits to New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Houston during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, are a collection of interviews from survivors of the 2005 disaster, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and his own personal reflections of the 2004 Presidentialelection.
"This is the hardest book I've ever written," Powell said. “But I felt compelled to write because we have to document this episode in the Americanjourney honestly, with the hope and determination that it will never happen again."
Someday We’ll All Be Free which is titled after the 1973 Donny Hathaway song, is heralded as Powell’s more distinguished work to date.
During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Powell staged two major New York City benefits in the span of three months to raise money for large truckshipments of food and aid that were sent to the devastated region.
He also co-created “Katrina on the Ground”, a program which sent over 700 young people, mostly college students, to the area as an alternative Spring Break trip in March.
Someday We'll All Be Free hits stores Aug. 29.
The three essays, inspired by Powell’s personal visits to New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Houston during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, are a collection of interviews from survivors of the 2005 disaster, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and his own personal reflections of the 2004 Presidentialelection.
"This is the hardest book I've ever written," Powell said. “But I felt compelled to write because we have to document this episode in the Americanjourney honestly, with the hope and determination that it will never happen again."
Someday We’ll All Be Free which is titled after the 1973 Donny Hathaway song, is heralded as Powell’s more distinguished work to date.
During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Powell staged two major New York City benefits in the span of three months to raise money for large truckshipments of food and aid that were sent to the devastated region.
He also co-created “Katrina on the Ground”, a program which sent over 700 young people, mostly college students, to the area as an alternative Spring Break trip in March.
Someday We'll All Be Free hits stores Aug. 29.
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