Book Talk - What Our Fathers Never Told Us!
Tue, Apr 21
|Sankofa Video Books & Café
Join us for a powerful book talk on What Our Fathers Never Told Us! with author Halim A. Flowers in conversation with Jawanna Hardy and Elizabeth Paige White.
Time & Location
Apr 21, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Sankofa Video Books & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
Many young men today are raised in single parent homes where they are raised by their mothers. It takes a village to raise a child, but the "Rites of Passage" to transition our boys to men can only be administered by elder men. In this book, Halim A. Flowers gives young men the instructions that their absent dads never bequeathed to them in short chapters that are full of wisdom, easy to understand, and practical to their everyday lives. This book will help young boys to understand what it really means to be "progressive" men.
Best known for being featured in HBO s, Emmy Award Winning American Undercover: Thug Life in DC, "Halim A. Flowers" is a beautiful and talented soul who made a mistake as a 16 year-old teenager and who was sentenced to 30 years to Life for it. Since those long 17 years ago, Halim has turned…