Award-winning journalist Issac J. Bailey visits Murrells Inlet

Award-winning journalist Issac J. Bailey will have a book signing at Lee’s Inlet Apothecary & Gifts in Murrells Inlet, Saturday, July 25.

Bailey has authored a book about the complexity of growing up black in the South and why the region’s haunted history shouldn’t diminish the pride black Southerners have about the area. Proud. Black. Southern. (But I Still Don’t Eat Watermelon in Front of White People) was released in April.

According to a news release,  the book represents a new approach to dealing with race and the South found in other works, because those other works often focus on the pathologies of being black in a region which for too long considered dark skin inferior and hostile and don’t often enough reflect upon the beauty, pride and complexity that can be found here as well. Proud. Black. Southern. does not shy away from exploring the region’s ugly past and still unequal present and would be a thorn in the side of any Southern apologist who attempts to paper over that reality.   

For more information, visit http://www.proudblacksoutherner.com.

Issac J. Bailey, the local columnist for The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, S.C., grew up in St. Stephen, S.C.  He is a graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina.
Lee’s Inlet Apothecary & Gifts is located at 3579 Highway 17 Business in Murrells Inlet.  For more information call 843-651-7979.