Wisconsin Book Festival Features bestselling author Jacquie Abram

2429 Perry St, Madison, WI 53713,Madison WI 53713

23 August, 2022

Description

On Friday, August 23, 2022, join Wisconsin Book Festival and Madiosn College to discuss Jacquie Abram's book, Hush Money: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job. Join us. Hush Money tells a story that is all too familiar to Black people across the globe with the case study of Ebony, a young Black woman who was living in poverty, struggling financially, and finding it hard to make ends meet. It describes how she obtained a job with an organization, after years of working dead end jobs, that put her one step closer to living the American dream. But it also describes how that dream turned into a nightmare when she became a victim of systemic racism in her workplace, was stripped of all dignity, confidence and strength, and was left with three choices: suffering in silence to keep her job, resigning to keep her sanity, or waiting to be unjustly fired. Hush Money also tells a story of triumph that breaks down the strategy Ebony used after years of suffering that not only proved systemic racism in her workplace, but also allowed her to keep her job and receive a six-figure settlement from her employer, among other things, to buy her silence. Hush Money is #1 in Best Eye Opening African American Women's Fiction on Goodreads Listopia, #8 in Best African American Christian Fiction as well as #9 in Most Popular African American Christian Fiction on findthisbest.com, and was #33 on Amazon's Best Sellers List for Black and African American Christian Fiction.