What with the damning convolutions of ignorance, disingenuousness, and angst that shadow so much of the discussion of race in the United States, it is heartening when hope glimmers, as it does when Clifton Taulbert in The Invitation unpacks his defensive prejudicial baggage acquired as an African American child growing up in the ‘40s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi Delta.

—ForeWord Reviews

World-renowned author Clifton Taulbert embodies the story of the South in our time. In The Invitation, Taulbert has written the most honest, and perhaps the greatest, book of his storied career.

—Sally Dennison, PhD, former publisher, Council Oak Books

Startling, painful, sometimes funny, and always insightful.

—Nancy Anderson, associate professor of English, Auburn University Montgomery

Taulbert has an open, confiding prose style and those coming to this book without having read any earlier works will have few complaints.

—Don Noble, Tuscaloosa News

The Invitation stuns with its eloquence. Taulbert's examples of hope, faith, and humanity invite us to join him in the work at hand—repair of the American soul.

—Beth Lieberman, rabbi, founder of Lehrhaus Books and former executive editor of the CCAR Press

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CLIFTON L. TAULBERT attended school in the Mississippi Delta during the era of legal segregation. He would have failed, he believes, if not for the community of unselfish adults around him. Their presence gave rise to his first book, Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored, which was included in the United States's gift to Nelson Mandela upon his release from prison and also became a critically acclaimed movie of the same name. Taulbert wrote a dozen more books, including the Pulitzer-nominated The Last Train North, as well as the award-winning Eight Habits of the Heart. Taulbert is president and CEO of Roots Java Coffee, the founder and president of the Building Community Institute, and has delivered training internationally, from NATO in Brussels to political organizations in Central America to Fortune 500 Companies and academic institutions throughout the United States.

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