An Evening with Joy-Ann Reid: Medgar and Myrlie Evers. #1 Bestseller

SATURDAY May 11th

THE NEW DATE IS CONFIRMED:

May 11, 2024

An Evening with Dr. Petty and the Tyson Symphonic/Jazz Band featuring
MSNBC Host JOY-ANN REID

Special guest, Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. Mistress of Ceremony

Dr. Petty and Jazz and the Tyson Symphonic welcomes MSNBC’s host Joy-Ann Reid. While on her sold-out book tour, Joy-Ann stops by with her New York Times #1 Bestseller: Medgar and Myrlie at the renowed Cicely Tyson Community School of Performing and Fine Arts for a conversation with the community; lead by the students of AP Language. The event is made possible through partnership of The Bibliophiles, Inc., African American Reading Group.

The book: Medgar and Myrlie, traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers.

Portion of the proceeds will help support student band members travel to compete in Chicago.

VIP Reception -6:00pm -6:45pm

Program - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Contact: DrTEATV@gmail.com

See you in May!

Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq.

Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. serves as Executive Director at the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College. She is an author, activist and attorney with a longstanding commitment to racial and social justice. Ms. Daniel Favors earned her J.D. from New York University, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar.

She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BA in African and African

American Studies, with a Minor in Spanish Language. She hosts the Lurie

Daniel Favors Show on Sirius XM’s Urban View Network, a national, daily talk show that tackles issues of race, gender, culture, politics and the law. Ms. Daniel Favors is a contributing author to The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement and she authored Afro State of Mind: Memories of a Nappy Headed Black Girl, which uses a natural hair journey as a metaphor for understanding the Black experience in the west.

She began her legal career as an attorney in the New York offices of Proskauer Rose LLP and Manatt Phelps and Phillips, LLP. She also served as a federal court law clerk in the chambers of the Honorable Sterling Johnson, Jr., in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She later founded Daniel Favors Law PLLC, a law firm that focused on economic and racial justice.

Before completing law school, Ms. Daniel Favors co-founded Sankofa Community Empowerment, Inc., a non-profit organization designed to educate and empower communities of African descent. She later co-founded Breaking the Cycle Consulting Services LLC, which specializes in creating comprehensive professional development for educators, youth education programs and family engagement workshops designed to address the crisis in urban education through the use of culturally responsive teaching.

Ms. Daniel Favors adheres to the West African principle of sankofa and believes one must use the past to understand the present and build for a brighter future. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and an active member of the North Jersey Alumnae Chapter. You can follow her on LinkedIn, Twitter; Instagram; or Facebook.