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Join Bill Fletcher Jr. at the East Side Freedom Library for an engaging discussion about race, class, and the crime novel.

The Man Who Changed Colors explores the complicated relationships between Cape Verdean Americans and African Americans, liberation movements in Cape Verde, Portuguese and Greek fascists emigrating to the United States, and shipyard working conditions that include a worker falling to his death.

In The Man Who Changed Colors, all these issues intertwine as investigative journalist David Gomes keeps asking questions about that shipyard worker’s death. His dogged pursuit of the truth puts his life in danger and upends the scrappy Cape Cod newspaper he works for.

Bill Fletcher Jr., the author of They’re Bankrupting Us! (Beacon Press, 2012) is a long-time racial-justice, labor, and international activist, scholar, and author. He has been involved in the labor movement for decades and is a widely known speaker and writer in print and on radio, television, and the Web. He has served in leadership positions with many prominent union and labor organizations, including the AFL-CIO, the SEIU and the AFGE. He is the author of The Man Who Fell From the Sky, a murder mystery.