Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
(On W. Polk St., just east of Clark St.)
Saturday 9/12, 12:30pm

Emily Yellin is a journalist, author, and producer. Her latest book, Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love, is a collaboration with civil rights movement leader Rev. James Lawson Jr. They worked together for five years to tell his story, before he died in 2024 at the age of 95.

Emily is a longtime contributor to The New York Times, writing about the South, race and violence against women. She also wrote two previous books, and produced a 10-part video series for The Root about sanitation workers and their families called 1,300 Men: Memphis Strike ’68.