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Grow and Walk Yoga
Thu, October 6, 2022
4:00 P.M.
West Oak Lane Library
There's no mistaking a chill in the air that says autumn is here! Black Girls With Green Thumbs is dedicating the month of October to children's health. As the seasons change, it can sometimes knock us off kilter, but practicing yoga can support us through this transition. Yoga is…
Worlds of Color: W. E. B. Du Bois Reading Group
Mon, October 10, 2022
6:00 P.M.
Walnut Street West
Join our W. E. B. Du Bois reading group for the third novel of Du Bois' Black Flame Trilogy: Worlds of Color It’s 1936 and Manuel Mansart, son of the lynched labor leader, Tom Mansart, is sixty years old. America is reeling from the Great Depression and picking up the pieces from the…
Author Talk: Writing About the Black Experience
Wed, October 12, 2022
6:00 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Mr. Asar, who writes Urban Fiction, will be on hand to talk about his craft. His most recent work is When The Streets Call You Home: An Urban Drama . This event will take place in person, and on Zoom. To register for the Zoom program, click here: …
IN-PERSON - Saidiya Hartman and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor| Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
Wed, October 12, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
TICKETS One of academia’s leading authorities on African American literature, enslavement, gender studies, and the ways in which marginalized people are excluded in historical narratives, Saidiya Hartman is a University Professor at Columbia University. Her works include Wayward…
Grow and Walk Yoga
Thu, October 13, 2022
4:00 P.M.
West Oak Lane Library
There's no mistaking a chill in the air that says autumn is here! Black Girls With Green Thumbs is dedicating the month of October to children's health. As the seasons change, it can sometimes knock us off kilter, but practicing yoga can support us through this transition. Yoga is…
Precious Paper Dolls: A Treasured Art Form
Now through Thu, October 13, 2022
5:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
The Art and Literature Department is excited to present an exhibition of paper dolls curated and collected by Martha Raively. Paper dolls have evolved from an adult form of entertainment in the late 1700's to a joyous childhood plaything during the 1930s through 1950s to its re-creation…
Worlds of Color: W. E. B. Du Bois Reading Group
Mon, October 17, 2022
6:00 P.M.
Walnut Street West
Join our W. E. B. Du Bois reading group for the third novel of Du Bois' Black Flame Trilogy: Worlds of Color It’s 1936 and Manuel Mansart, son of the lynched labor leader, Tom Mansart, is sixty years old. America is reeling from the Great Depression and picking up the pieces from the…
Demystifying the Diaspora
Wed, October 19, 2022
6:00 P.M.
Culinary Literacy Center
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Parkway Central Library
Join local food educator Chef Joy Parham of Urban Country Culinary Concepts to demystify the flavors of the African diaspora. This class will highlight ingredients that have influenced our culinary culture here in America and introduce cooking with palm oil, ancient African grains and spices,…
Grow and Walk Yoga
Thu, October 20, 2022
4:00 P.M.
West Oak Lane Library
There's no mistaking a chill in the air that says autumn is here! Black Girls With Green Thumbs is dedicating the month of October to children's health. As the seasons change, it can sometimes knock us off kilter, but practicing yoga can support us through this transition. Yoga is…
IN-PERSON - Charlayne Hunter-Gault | My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives
Mon, October 24, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50
TICKETS In conversation with Dorothy Roberts Referred to by Jelani Cobb as “a Dean of American journalism,” Charlayne Hunter-Gault has chronicled some of the past half-century’s most important moments in Black life, culture, and politics. Often the only Black woman in…
Grow and Walk Yoga
Thu, October 27, 2022
4:00 P.M.
West Oak Lane Library
There's no mistaking a chill in the air that says autumn is here! Black Girls With Green Thumbs is dedicating the month of October to children's health. As the seasons change, it can sometimes knock us off kilter, but practicing yoga can support us through this transition. Yoga is…
IN-PERSON - Kardea Brown | The Way Home: A Celebration of Sea Islands Food and Family with over 100 Recipes
Tue, November 1, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $13.20 auditorium; $41.25-book with ticket
TICKETS Charleston, South Carolina–based Kardea Brown hosts the Food Network’s Delicious Miss Brown and OWN’s The Great Soul Food Cookoff . She also is the creator of the pop-up New Gullah Supper Club, where her cuisine pays homage to her grandmother’s cooking and…
IN-PERSON - Andrew K. Diemer | Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
Thu, November 3, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
TICKETS Andrew K. Diemer is the author of The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863 , an examination of the ways in which free Black Philadelphians and Baltimoreans fought to defend their liberty before and during the…
IN-PERSON - Kerri K. Greenidge | The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Wed, November 16, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
TICKETS In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition Historian Kerri K. Greenidge is the author of Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter , a portrait of the post-Reconstruction civil rights activist. A New York Times…
IN-PERSON - Misty Copeland | The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson
Tue, November 29, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50 ticket or $38.80 book-with-ticket
TICKETS In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition The first African American principal dancer in the history of the elite American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland is one of the world’s most accomplished and recognizable artists. She is the author of the…
Kwanzaa Story & Craft!
Wed, December 28, 2022
2:00 P.M.
Northeast Regional Library
Kwanzaa Celebration! Join us for a story and make your own paper plate kinara!
Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition
Now through Sat, December 31, 2022
5:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The roots of activism in Philadelphia run deep, and local archives hold innumerable stories of resistance. But many of these stories — those that center historically marginalized peoples — have been diminished, erased, neglected, and buried. Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition…