Tickets: $40-$45 (includes book with purchase)
Genre: Conversation
Entertainment, Music
Joy-Ann Reid in conversation with Rachel Maddow
“Writer and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid has written the book we didn’t even know we needed. In her latest, Reid tells the story of Medgar and Myrlie Evers: their love and leadership, their resistance and resonance. Their remarkable story is finally told in this captivating and inspirational volume.” — Ms. Magazine
Join The Apollo and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid for an exploration of her New York Times best-selling book, Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America. The award-winning host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut will be joined in conversation by Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show and author of The New York Times best-selling book, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, live at the historic Apollo theater.
A copy of Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America will be included with each ticket purchased.
Copies of Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism will also be available on-site for purchase.
In Conversation: Joy Reid with Rachel Maddow is part of The Apollo’s Winter/Spring 2024 season.
Ticket Information
Please contact the Apollo Box office at [email protected] or (212) 531-5305 if any other special assistance is required for your visit.
The Apollo’s In Conversation Series:
The Apollo’s In Conversation series amplifies the voices of artists and thought leaders and explores the African American and African diasporic narrative. Past In Conversation artists and panels have included John Legend, Black Thought, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Oprah Winfrey, Chadwick Boseman, Edward Enninful, Lupita Nyong’o and more.
About The Book:
Medgar and Myrlie is a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America’s struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers’s extraordinary activism after her husband’s assassination in the driveway of their Mississippi home. In this groundbreaking and thrilling account of two heroes of the civil rights movement, Joy-Ann Reid uses Medgar Evers and Myrlie Louise Beasley ’s relationship as a lens through which to explore the on-the-ground work that went into winning basic rights for Black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.