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CANCELLED - POSTPONED: Writers Resist PHL: Write the Vote Inspired by Toni Morrison
Sun, March 29, 2020
1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS BEING POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Join the flagship event of the national day of literary protest to engage in what Morrison termed "Word Work:" using language to celebrate our differences, reaffirm our dignity, and embrace our…
CANCELLED - Tracing Your Roots: A Case Study in African American Genealogy
Mon, March 30, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Social Science and History Department
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Parkway Central Library
Researching African American ancestors can be challenging and often calls for using creative search methods. Learn how Natline Thornton and her family traced their roots back to 1795, to Halifax County, Virginia. She documents the family's history through six generations, including…
CANCELLED - Authors Up Close | William Evans
Mon, March 30, 2020
6:30 P.M.
Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse
Cost: FREE
Join William Evans at Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse for a reading of his new book, We Inherit What the Fires Left Us: Poems . An award-winning poet and cofounder of the website Black Nerd Problems , Evans offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of…
CANCELLED - Author Talk: Fasaha Traylor
Tue, March 31, 2020
6:30 A.M.
West Oak Lane Library
Cost: FREE
Fasaha Traylor, co-author with Dr. Allener Baker-Rogers, will be here to speak about their new book They Carried Us: The Social Impact of Philadelphia's Black Women Leaders . This book traces the lives and impact of ninety-five Philadelphia black women, and is part of our Women's History…
Jazz Musicians in Harlem
Wed, April 8, 2020
7:00 P.M.
Lovett Memorial Library
Join us to watch a documentary about a black and white photograph of fifty-seven jazz musicians in Harlem, taken by freelance photographer Art Kane, for Esquire magazine in 1958. This 1994 American documentary film was directed by Jean Bach about the photograph of the…
Postponed: Author Talk - Richard Bell | Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home
Thu, April 16, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Social Science and History Department
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Parkway Central Library
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date. Philadelphia, 1825: Five young, free black boys fell into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States—and escaped, helping to bring justice to their captors. In this history,…
Blueprints for Healing: Toni Morrison and the Balm of Black Women Writing led by Yolanda Wisher and Trapeta B. Mayson
Sat, April 18, 2020
2:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
As a novelist, essayist, and author of children’s books, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison (1931-2019) unapologetically wrote the Black experience into a tradition of American letters that often rendered it invisible or caricatured. As a book editor and professor, she nurtured the careers and…
April is National Poetry Month
Sat, April 25, 2020
2:00 P.M.
Oak Lane Library
East Oak Lane's Vernita Hall will join us and read new poems of witness for modern times, in celebration of Poetry Month. She is the author of Where William Walked: Poems about Philadelphia and its people of color" (Willow Books), winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize…
CANCELLED - Wes Moore | Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
Mon, April 27, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $33/$48 - book included with ticket
Two Tickets/One Book A former combat officer in Afghanistan, Rhodes Scholar, and White House Fellow to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Wes Moore is the author of the bestsellers The Work , an intimate reflection about finding meaning in an unstable era, and The Other Wes Moore , the…
Frank B. Wilderson III | Afropessimism
Tue, April 28, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Frank B. Wilderson III spent more than five years in South Africa, where he was one of two Americans elected to the African National Congress during the country’s transformation after apartheid. His books include Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid and Red, White…
CANCELLED - Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. | Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Wed, April 29, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
The chair of the Department of African American Studies and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the author of the acclaimed book Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul . “One of the most…
CANCELLED - Samantha Irby | Wow, No Thank You.
Thu, April 30, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In her popular long-running blog, bitches gotta eat , Samantha Irby offers raw, humorous takes on her sometimes difficult personal life, pop culture, and, of course, food. She is also the author of three essay collections: Meaty ; New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely…
Susan Choi | Trust Exercise with Jacqueline Woodson | Red at the Bone
Thu, May 7, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, Trust Exercise follows a star-crossed suburban teen romance in a 1980s performing arts high school. Susan Choi ’s novels are known for excavating the hidden corners of the human heart and acclaimed for their “nuance, psychological…
Adult Reading Club: Color's Blues
Mon, June 8, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Education Philosophy and Religion Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join us in the Education, Philosophy & Religion Department as we read and discuss Philadelphia author, Lee Ruben's novel, which delves into the steamy underworld during the Harlem Renaissance era. Copies of the book chapters will be available. Snacks will be provided. To register…