Ishmael Reed will launch Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media, The Return of
the Nigger Breakers in Toronto on April 16

MONTREAL, April 13 /CNW Telbec/ - Eminent American writer Ishmael Reed will launch Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media, The Return of the Nigger Breakers in Toronto on Friday, April 16, 7:30 pm. United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil.

Professor George Elliott Clarke, award-winning writer, poet, and playwright, will host the launch, organized by A Different Book List and Baraka Books.

For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama is being tormented by reincarnations of those demonic people hired to break uppity slaves, the "Nigger Breakers." Reed establishes himself as the conscience of a country once moved by Martin Luther King's dream.

Ishmael Reed of Oakland CA is the prize-winning essayist, novelist, poet, and playwright who sparked the debate on Precious and its "foul representations of blacks." He taught at the University of California (Berkeley) for 35 years.

Press copies, interviews: [email protected]

See www.barakabooks.com and www.adifferentbooklist.com [phone]

For further information: Robin Philpot, [phone]