Award-winning
writer and Hip-Hop historian Kevin Powell is set to release his seventh book,
Someday We’ll All Be Free, a collection of three essaysinspired
by 9/11, the 2004 presidential election and Hurricane Katrina.The
three essays, inspired by Powell’s personal visits to New Orleans, Baton
Rouge and Houston during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, are a collection
of interviews from survivors of the 2005 disaster, the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
and his own personal reflections of the 2004 Presidentialelection."This
is the hardest book I’ve ever written," Powell said. “But I felt compelled
to write because we have to document this episode in the Americanjourney honestly,
with the hope and determination that it will never happen again."Someday
We’ll All Be Free which is titled after the 1973 Donny Hathaway song,
is heralded as Powell’s more distinguished work to date.During
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Powell staged two major New York City benefits
in the span of three months to raise money for large truckshipments of food
and aid that were sent to the devastated region.He
also co-created “Katrina on the Ground”, a program which sent over 700
young people, mostly college students, to the area as an alternative Spring Break
trip in March.Someday
We’ll All Be Free
hits stores Aug. 29.