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BIG IDEA Book Club

Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the

2024-09-24 17:30:00 2024-09-24 18:30:00 America/New_York BIG IDEA Book Club A discussion group dedicated to diverse voices, perspectives, and authors. We'll aim to construct a meaningful conversation about anti-racism and embrace the diversity of our community. Kent - Computer Training Room

Tuesday, September 24
5:30pm - 6:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-09-24 17:30:00 2024-09-24 18:30:00 America/New_York BIG IDEA Book Club A discussion group dedicated to diverse voices, perspectives, and authors. We'll aim to construct a meaningful conversation about anti-racism and embrace the diversity of our community. Kent - Computer Training Room

Kent

Computer Training Room

A discussion group dedicated to diverse voices, perspectives, and authors. We'll aim to construct a meaningful conversation about anti-racism and embrace the diversity of our community.

Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride

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Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown’s rough-and-tumble life, through McBride’s lens, is an unsettling metaphor for American life: the tension between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. McBride’s travels take him to forgotten corners of Brown’s never-before-revealed history: the country town where Brown’s family and thousands of others were displaced by America’s largest nuclear power bomb-making facility; a South Carolina field where a long-forgotten cousin recounts, in the dead of night, a fuller history of Brown’s sharecropping childhood, which until now has been a mystery. McBride seeks out the American expatriate in England who co-created the James Brown sound, visits the trusted right-hand manager who worked with Brown for forty-one years, and interviews Brown’s most influential nonmusical creation, his “adopted son,” the Reverend Al Sharpton. He describes the stirring visit of Michael Jackson to the Augusta, Georgia, funeral home where the King of Pop sat up all night with the body of his musical godfather, spends hours talking with Brown’s first wife, and lays bare the Dickensian legal contest over James Brown’s estate, a fight that has consumed careers; prevented any money from reaching the poor schoolchildren in Georgia and South Carolina, as instructed in his will; cost Brown’s estate millions in legal fees; and left James Brown’s body to lie for more than eight years in a gilded coffin in his daughter’s yard in South Carolina.

AGE GROUP: | Adults (18+) |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Groups |

TAGS: | branchbookgroup | blacklivesmatterbookgroup | bigidea |

Kent

Phone: 419.259.5340

Hours
We're closed Wednesday January 01 due to New Year's Day
Mon, Dec 30 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Tue, Dec 31 9:00AM to 5:30PM
(closing at 5:30 due to New Year holiday)
Wed, Jan 01 Closed
(New Year's Day)
Thu, Jan 02 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Fri, Jan 03 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sat, Jan 04 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sun, Jan 05 Closed

About the branch
  • 32 public computers/44 public Netbooks
  • 4 children's computers/4 teen computers
  • Research lab with 6 computers for group collaboration
  • Teen gaming room with PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
  • Free Wifi
  • Meeting Space200-person meeting room/handicapped accessible
  • Faxing, copying, and scanning
  • 74 parking spots/3 handicapped accessible parking spots
  • 5 bicycle spots

Upcoming events

Mon, Dec 30, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room B (Capacity : 49)

Fri, Jan 03, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Computer Training Room
This event is full

Mon, Jan 06, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room B (Capacity : 49)

Cancelled
Tue, Jan 07, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Wed, Jan 08, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room B (Capacity : 49)

Cancelled
Thu, Jan 09, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Mon, Jan 13, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Conference Room

Mon, Jan 13, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room B (Capacity : 49)

Cancelled
Tue, Jan 14, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Wed, Jan 15, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Conference Room

Wed, Jan 15, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room B (Capacity : 49)

Cancelled
Thu, Jan 16, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Cancelled
Fri, Jan 17, 10:00am - 11:00am

Cancelled
Tue, Jan 21, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Wed, Jan 22, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room B (Capacity : 49)

Cancelled
Thu, Jan 23, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Thu, Jan 23, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Meeting Room B (Capacity : 49)
This event is full

Cancelled
Sat, Jan 25, 10:00am - 11:00am

Mon, Jan 27, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room B (Capacity : 49)

Cancelled
Tue, Jan 28, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Wed, Jan 29, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room B (Capacity : 49)