Omo Moses and The White Peril join the Montclair Literary Festival, held April 26 - May 3, 2025, on May 3rd for a panel discussion from 3-4PM at the Montclair Public Library. Event is free and open to the public.

Panel Description:

Non-Fiction: Telling Our Stories

Leslie-Ann Murray delves into three deeply personal and insightful memoirs. In I Am Nobody’s Slave, Lee Hawkins tells the story of one Black family's pursuit of the American Dream through the impacts of systemic racism and racial violence. Omo Moses’ The White Peril is a coming-of-age story, an epic father-son road trip, a searing account of the Black male experience and a work that powerfully revives his great-grandfather’s demand for liberation. In Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create, award-winning memoirist Elissa Altman addresses how to give yourself permission to transcend the fear that keeps vital stories from being written.

Venue: Mills Auditorium (in former United Way Building).