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VIRTUAL - Tarana Burke | Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Fri, September 17, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $34.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
TICKETS In conversation with Imani Perry A longtime activist for justice and equity, Tarana Burke founded the Me Too movement in 2006 as a way for women to come together in their shared experiences of sexual violence. She is the senior director of the advocacy group Girls for Gender Equity,…
VIRTUAL - Jackie Kay | Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend
Thu, September 30, 2021
7:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $19.00-Book with signed book plate
REGISTER In conversation with Sapphire The National Poet Laureate of Scotland from 2016 to 2021, Jackie Kay is the author of the celebrated poetry collections Life Mask , Off Colour , and The Adoption Papers , winner of the Scottish Arts Council Book Award. She is also the…
VIRTUAL - Andrea Elliott | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Wed, October 6, 2021
7:15 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $34.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER In conversation with Reginald Dwayne Betts, essayist, poet, and author of the award-winning collection, Felon An investigative reporter at The New York Times , Andrea Elliott won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a series of articles on Sheik Reda Shata, an…
VIRTUAL - Fiona Hill | There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Thu, October 7, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Register Known for her testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives during Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment hearings, Fiona Hill has more than 30 years of experience in foreign policy. The Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy…
VIRTUAL - Keisha N. Blain | Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Tue, October 12, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $28.95-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER In conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson Keisha N. Blain ’s Set the World on Fire , a history of some of the early 20th century’s leading Black nationalist women, won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize and was named one of Smithsonian…
VIRTUAL - Todd Doughty | Little Pieces of Hope: Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World
Thu, October 14, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $20.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER In conversation with Adriana Trigiani The senior vice president and deputy publisher of Doubleday, Todd Doughty has worked for Penguin Random House publishing for more than 20 years. When the World Health Organization named COVID-19 a global pandemic, he decided that he had to…
Making Her Mark: Philadelphia Women Fight for the Vote: Self-Guided Tour
Now through Fri, December 3, 2021
5:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Making Her Mark exhibition is open in the West Gallery of the Parkway Central Library and offers a look at the stories of Philadelphia women who built and sustained movements dedicated to voting rights. Making Her Mark was curated by Jennifer Zarro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Instruction,…