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VIRTUAL - Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys
Wed, July 8, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $17.00- Book with Ticket
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Each ticket includes a paperback copy of The Nickel Boys . Books will be mailed following the event. After you purchase your ticket, you will receive an email within 24 hours with a link that you can use to enter the event on Crowdcast . “The best living American novelist” (Chicago…
VIRTUAL - Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. | Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Thu, July 16, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Watch Eddie Glaude, Jr . live on Crowdcast at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance! In conversation with Tamala Edwards , anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition The chair of the Department of African American Studies and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University…
VIRTUAL - Carol Anderson | White Rage and One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Tue, August 4, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Watch Carol Anderson live on Crowdcast at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance! Carol Anderson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for White Rage , an “extraordinarily timely and urgent” ( New York Times Book Review ) primer on the ongoing opposition to…
Virtual Performance: Jazzy Ash
Wed, August 12, 2020
11:00 A.M.
Parkway Central Library
A special video performance entitled "Fly Through My Window" by celebrated children's performer Jazzy Ash, who specializes in bringing New Orleans-style jazz to children and families! This concert, featuring African American folk songs in an interactive and educational setting,…