Evening Post Books’ New Publication, ‘Ukweli: Searching For Healing Truth’

CHARLESTON, S.C.—January 30, 2022—Evening Post Books will release the book Ukweli: Searching for
Healing Truth on February 15, 2022.

Ukweli is the Swahili word for truth. In this book, South Carolina writers and poets explore American racism.
The personal accounts and insights will educate White Americans about the systematic racial bias employed
to stymie African American progress. Forty–seven writers and poets provide insight into the struggles
Black people have faced as they’ve made substantial contributions to America, and helped to define its
soul. Ukweli presents personal truths learned about race relations in this country to show a part of American
history often overlooked or misunderstood.

This book meets this moment in America as a healing truth to overcome the trauma of slavery and the decades
of violence that followed it. Inspired by a poetry, lecture, and dialogue series of the same name organized by
poet Horace Mungin in 2020 at Charleston’s McLeod Plantation.

Praise for Ukweli

“This book is about how Blacks faced atrocities committed by their White ‘cousins.’ They maintained their
religion and customs like ‘Watch Night.’ Music and art also got them through a nightmare of uppity Blacks
burned alive, lynchings, land theft, and unequal justice. This Gullah book is one of the most important on race
in decades. I hope it’s not buried by book reviewers who see Black literature in terms of one–at–a–time tokens.”

— Ishmael Reed, American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher
“You will pick up this book thinking, ‘This is too much!’ and you will finish this book thinking, ‘I wish there
was more!’ Mungin and Frazier’s collected collision of poetry and prose is a perfectly unsettling way to bring
new insight into these decidedly unsettled conversations. The pain rings in these truths and the reconciliation
reigns in these truth–tellings. A required read. Ukewli, indeed. — Tonya M. Matthews, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, International African American
Museum, Charleston

“Meticulously researched, objectively analyzed, judiciously provocative, and sublimely written…” — Henry E. Darby, principal, North Charleston High School

The book, ISBN 978–1–929647–69–9, retails for $29.95. If you would like to request a review copy, please contact
Michael Nolan at the address above. Consumer Publications, LLC dba Evening Post Books, began publishing
titles in 2008 by South Carolina authors with subject matter dedicated to the Lowcountry and the greater South.
Additional information may be found at www.eveningpostbooks.com