A book launch celebration:
WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME
The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports


Featuring the authors:
Dave Zirin, author, What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the
United States

CHUCK D, Public Enemy, and host, On the Real
(http://www.airamerica.com/onthereal/)

Tuesday, May15, 7 pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
55 Malcolm X Blvd.
New York, NY
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

About the book:

"Welcome to the Terrordome." Public Enemy's 1990 hip-hop anthem was a
call to arms against a world—and a popular culture—gone mad. A real
Terrordome emerged in the New Orleans Superdome in the horrifying
aftermath of Hurricaine Katrina—a gruesome collision of sports and
politics as thousands sat stranded in a sports arena where most could
never have afforded even the cheapest ticket.

Today the "Terrordome" is a twenty-first century sports world that is
frightening, ridiculous, horrifying, and inspiring…all before the next
commercial break. From the "baseball factories" of the Dominican
Republic to the inspiring legacy of Roberto Clemente; from the stormy
marriage between hip hop and the NBA to Zinedine Zidane's head butt—it
will get you talking and thinking.

Welcome to the Terrordome. You'll find heroes and villains. You'll
find oppression and protest. And you'll find an engaging and
provocative look at the world of sports like no other.


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About the authors:

Dave Zirin is the author of the widely acclaimed book What's My Name,
Fool? (Haymarket Books) and writes the weekly column "Edge of Sports"
( edgeofsports.com ). He writes a regular column for The Nation and
Slam magazine and has appeared as a sports commentator on ESPN TV and
radio, CBNC, WNBC, Democracy Now!, Air America, Radio Nation, and
Pacifica.

Chuck D redefined rap music and hip-hop culture as leader and
co-founder of the legendary rap group Public Enemy. Spike Lee calls
him "one of the most politically and socially conscious artists of any
generation." He co-hosts a weekly radio show on Air America.


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Welcome to the Terrordome
The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports
by Dave Zirin
Introduction by Chuck D
ISBN 978-1931859417 | $16.00 | Trade Paper
http://www.haymarketbooks.org
http://cbsd.com/inventory.aspx?id=21144

For review copy requests, contact:
Sarah Macaraeg
sarah.macaraeg@gmail.com

For interview requests, contact:
Adam Riferenberick
adam@pressboxpublicity.com

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