FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2026
ReShonda Tate Returns!
With Love From Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott

From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate—a new novel inspired by beloved Harlem jazz performer Hazel Scott and the equal parts exhilarating and tumultuous relationship that changed the course of her life.

Harlem, 1943: At just twenty-three, Hazel Scott is a woman on fire. A jazz prodigy, a glamorous film star, and a fierce advocate for civil rights, she’s breaking barriers and refusing to play by the rules. Then Adam Clayton Powell Jr. walks into her life. Harlem’s most electrifying preacher-turned-politician, Adam is as bold and unyielding as Hazel—charismatic, powerful…and married.

This kicks off a decades-long relationship that propels them into the center of a political and cultural revolution. As Hazel’s star rises, Adam takes the national stage in Congress and the couple becomes the toast of the country. But when their affair turns into a marriage, behind the glamorous façade is a battlefield of ego, ambition, and sacrifice. Forced to choose between her music and her family, Hazel must decide what she’s willing to lose—and what she refuses to give up.
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Set against the pulsing backdrop of twentieth-century Harlem and featuring icons like Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin, With Love from Harlem is a sweeping, emotionally charged romantic drama, rich with historical detail. ReShonda Tate delivers a powerful portrait of love, art, and the price of being unforgettable.

Join us at The Cannery, 314 E. Alamo, Brenham. Register by Monday, Feb. 23rd. Lunch $25. Books will be available for purchase.

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Presenter 

​ReShonda Tate is the best-selling author of more than fifty-three books of adult and teen fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction which have received glowing reviews in USA Today, The Washington Post, Jet, People, Essence, and Ebony Magazines. Her sophomore novel, Let the Church Say Amen, was made into a film directed by actress Regina King, and produced by TD Jakes and Queen Latifah. She received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature for Say Amen, Again (2012), was named one of Houston’s Top Ten Authors (2015), recognized as the Houston Library Author of the Year (2020), and inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame in 2022. Tate is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and Jack & Jill of America. She is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin.​.

Many thanks to Sigma Chi Chi Professional Women’s Club, Texas Ten Historical Explorers, and Brenham Activist Association for their collaboration with Lifetime Learning to bring ReShonda Tate to Brenham for this speaker luncheon.​

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Friday, February 27, 2026
​11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

The Cannery
314 East Alamo
Brenham TX
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$25 per person

BUY TICKETS ONLINE:
Registration deadline: 
Friday, February 21st

OR... MAIL A CHECK TO:
       Lifetime Learning
       P. O. Box 513
       Brenham, TX 77834