On Friday, November 4th at 10:30am author Freddi Williams Evans will sign copies of her book Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans and speak about her research of Tom Dent.
At the same location there will be a Tom Dent Forum on Saturday, November 5th including Shelia M. Goss, author of Delilah; Jumata Emill Jones, author of Never Dead; Keith Weldon Medley, author of We As Freemen: Plessy V. Ferguson; Emelda Kia, poet and author of Soul of a Sister; and Clarence Nero, author of Temptation of Desire.
Thomas Covington Dent was a New Orleans author who founded the Free Southern Theatre, where he both directed and wrote numerous plays. In addtion to this, Dent founded the “Callaloo” literary journal. Copies of this journal from 1978 to the present are available on the second floor of the Xavier Library.
Tom Dent
