As we continue to ask what is it going to take? we cannot only focus on the major cities and urban settings, and Bakari Sellers’ book MY VANISHING COUNTRY (Amistad; May 19, 2020) offers insights into an often forgotten area, the rural Black Belt (once a reference to fertile soil, but now known as the chain of the nation’s most impoverished states). MY VANISHING COUNTRY is Sellers’ poignant ode to his father, a significant figure of the Civil Rights movement; a roaring ballad to the abandoned rural South; and a moving reflection on fatherhood.
Moderated by W. Teddy McDaniel, III, President and CEO of the Urban League of Central Carolinas.