{"id":16232,"date":"2021-04-06T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=16232"},"modified":"2021-04-03T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T14:40:02","slug":"event-reading-partners-sc-to-host-community-book-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/event-reading-partners-sc-to-host-community-book-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT: Reading Partners SC to host Community Book Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From our friends at Reading Partners SC&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Join <a href=\"https:\/\/readingpartners.org\/location\/south-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reading Partners SC,<\/a> a local literacy nonprofit, on Thursday, April 22 for a community book<br \/>\nconversation with author and Emmy-winning director <a href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyblount.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Blount<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They will discuss his latest book, The Emancipation of Evan Walls, and education in America. We cannot wait for this event and we hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SIGN UP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rpcommunityread_jeffreyblount.eventbrite.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/rpcommunityread_jeffreyblount.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;EVAN WALLS IS TERRIFIED by the birth of his \ufb01rst child because he doesn&#8217;t want her to suffer the isolation he had as a child. Seeing his torment, his wife, Izzy, prods him to explain. He tells of being a black child growing up in the racially charged 1960s. Inspired to overcome the racism and class status imposed on blacks, he dreams of a life bigger than that lived by most everyone he knows in the small Virginia town of Canaan. He is resented by friends and family for desiring a life better than theirs. Among the smartest in his class, Evan becomes a target of white kids threatened by the forced integration of their schools. Caught in a cross\ufb01re of hate from whites and his own people, who question whether he is black enough, Evan is often alone and bewildered. Only the love of his great grandmother, Mama Jennie, and his mentor, Bojack, keeps him on track. Together, they help Evan \ufb01nd perspective and peace.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/19618\/9781633938106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bookshop.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GET THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"19618\" data-sku=\"9781633938106\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/22-e1617460626406.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16237 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/22-e1617460626406.png\" alt=\"JoinTheConversation-ReadingPartnersSC\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/500;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From our friends at Reading Partners SC&#8230; Join Reading Partners SC, a local literacy nonprofit, on Thursday, April 22 for a community<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/event-reading-partners-sc-to-host-community-book-talk\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":16236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,517,3,34,2,19,8,28,10,35,31,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16239,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16232\/revisions\/16239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}