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“There’s no way I can pay you back. But the plan is to show you that I understand… you are appreciated.” – “Dear Mama” (1995), Tupac Shakur
We are excited to welcome cultural critic and writer Jamilah Lemieux for the release of her powerful new book, “Black. Single. Mother.”
Jamilah will be joined by author, activist, and fellow mom, Yaba Blay, for an important and timely panel discussion on Black motherhood that will surely engage, inspire, and celebrate the impact that Black mothers have on all of us. This panel will be moderated by the owner of Uncle Bobbie’s, Marc Lamont Hill.
A community Q&A and book signing will follow the talk.
Copies of Jamilah Lemieux’s powerful new book, “Black. Single. Mother.” will be available for purchase, but pre-purchase to guarantee your copy.
Your ticket also includes access to all of the museum exhibits, including the new and amazing Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design
You don’t want to miss this event!
About the Book:
A personal meditation on, examination of, and tribute to Black single motherhood, unapologetically told through poignant essays and candid interviews by a celebrated cultural critic
With her signature candid, humorous, and sometimes biting takes, Jamilah Lemieux suffers no fools while also courageously revealing the scars of her own parenting journey and search for self-acceptance in a world that hates “baby mamas.” With a particular verve and relatability-honed in her many years among Black Twitter’s most prominent voices-Lemieux centers the complex reality of Black single motherhood: uncertainty and fierceness alike.
Black. Single. Mother. combines riveting personal essays, infused with whip-smart cultural and historical analysis, with twenty-one intimate first-person testimonies from a spectrum of Black single mothers. A long-overdue offering in celebration of the American matriarch most often maligned, Black. Single. Mother. sets out to inspire a new cultural and community dialogue about this powerful figure as one profoundly deserving of love, support, and respect.
About the Author:
Jamilah Lemieux https://www.jamilahlemieux.com/about-jamilah-lemieux is a cultural critic and writer with a focus on issues of race, gender, and sexuality. A leading feminist thinker, social influencer, and millennial media darling, Lemieux has writt en for a host of platforms, including the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Essence, Playboy, The Cut, The Guardian, Colorlines, The Washingt on Post, Wired, Self, Refinery29, and The New York Times. She was pro minently featured in Lifetime’s docuseries Surviving R. Kelly and Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning. She also appeared in A&E’s Secrets of Playboy. Lemieux penned the forewords for the anniversary editions of Michele Wallace’s Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman and Ann Petry’s Miss Muriel and Other Stories. Currently, she writes a weekly advice column for Slate’s “Care and Feeding” parenting section and is a co-host for the podcast of the same name. She resides in Los Angeles with her daughter, Naima.
About the Participants:
Dr. Yaba Blay https://www.yabablay.com/about is an “Independent People’s Worker” who works in service of Black liberation every day. A scholar-activist, cultural worker, and storyteller, her practice centers Black experiences globally, especially those of Black women and girls. A maroon academic, her research and scholarship engages the Black body, with particular focus on colorism and beauty politics.
A blooming visual artist, her film, The Whites of Our Eyes, won the 2024 BlackStar Film Festival Shine Award, given annually to a first-time filmmaker. She created and directed the popular web series, ‘Professional Black Girl,’ and in 2012, she served as a pro ducer on “Who is Black in America?,” CNN’s television documentary is based largely on her research on Black racial identity.
Dr. Blay’s commentary is featured in A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond, a permanent installation exhibited in the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and she is the author of the bestselling, award-winning book, One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race.
Marc Lamont Hill https://www.marclamonthill.com/about https://www.jamilahlemieux.com/about-jamilah-lemieux is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country. He is currently the host of Al Jazeera UpFront, the “Night School” podcast and co-host of the Joe Budden Podcast. He has hosted programs on VH1, MTV, TV ONE, and Black News Channel. He is the founder and owner of Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books. Marc is also an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. Ebony Magazine has named him one of America’s 100 most influential Black leaders.