Charles Michael Byrd makes appearance in Montclair, New Jersey to promote new book!
Charles Michael Byrd, author of “The Bhagavad-gita in Black and White: From Mulatto Pride to Krishna Consciousness” (Backintyme Publishing) will be speaking at Watchung Booksellers, 54 Fairfield Street, Watchung Plaza in Montclair, New Jersey on Thursday, October 4th from 7 to 8 p.m.
In addition to reading from his book and holding a Q&A session on racialism from the Vedic perspective, Mr. Byrd, along with bookstore owner Margot Sage-El, will conduct a drawing afterwards. Individuals (nationally as well as locally) who purchase “The Bhagavad-gita in Black and White: From Mulatto Pride to Krishna Consciousness” from the Watchung Booksellers website between now and October 4th — as well as those folk who buy the book after they arrive that evening — will be eligible to win Watchung Booksellers Gift Certificates!
Born in 1952 in Abingdon, Virginia, Mr. Byrd is of “black,” “white” and Cherokee heritage. From 1995-2003 he published Interracial Voice, an Internet newsjournal serving the multiracial community in cyberspace. Among numerous media credits, he has appeared on both Tony Brown’s Journal and Jim Lehrer’s “NewsHour” and has written Op-Eds for the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday and The Times Union of Albany. As well, he was recently interviewed for the Washington Post article entitled “A Part Colored By History: Choice of White Actress For Mixed-Race Role Stirs Debate on Insensitivity.”
A student of Vedic scriptures, Mr. Byrd believes that individuals of mixed racial backgrounds quickly begin searching for a higher spiritual truth, something that allows them to make sense of the madness behind lumping human beings into separate and distinct “racial” groupings.
Boston native Margot Sage-El is interracially married with three children and was interviewed by Mr. Byrd for Interracial Voice back in September 1995. Additionally, she has been in the forefront of the effort to promote literature geared toward “mixed-race” children and their families.
Order “The Bhagavad-gita in Black and White: From Mulatto Pride to Krishna Consciousness” from Watchung Booksellers today, and come to Montclair on October 4th. (Telephone 973-744-7177 if you need directions or more information.) See you there!