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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…
Race and Slavery in the U.S.
Fri, July 10, 2020
3:00 P.M.
Philadelphia City Institute
How did slavery shape the idea of race in the United States, and how did it affect African Americans in the decades after it ended? Discover how the enslavement of Black men, women, and children laid the groundwork of how race is often thought of today. This workshop is the first in a…
Virtual Hands-on History–Hands Off: Touch Not the Theremin
Sat, July 11, 2020
2:00 P.M.
Fleisher Collection
at
Parkway Central Library
Some of us may remember that weird sound made famous in the original Star Trek theme song. That was the sound of the Theremin, the grandfather of all electronic instruments. It remains one of the stranger instruments in sound, function, and history. Join us in this virtual…
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…
The Art of Resistance
Fri, July 17, 2020
3:00 P.M.
Philadelphia City Institute
In this workshop we will look at the ways artists of color have used art as a form of resistance against racism. This workshop is the third in a series of workshops preparing participants for this year’s fifth annual Social Justice Symposium, which will take place on Saturday August 1.…
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 - Rep. Pramila Jayapal | Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change
Thu, August 6, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Watch Pramila Jayapal live on Crowdcast. And be sure to register in advance. In conversation with Aimee Allison The first Indian American woman in the U.S. House of Representatives, Pramila Jayapal has represented the state of Washington’s 7th District since 2016. An ascendant…
Voyages by Road and Sea
Now through Sun, August 30, 2020
8:00 A.M.
First Floor Gallery West
at
Parkway Central Library
Voyages by Road and Sea explores the legacies of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville through contemporary voices and art in Parkway Central Library's West Gallery. Marking the bicentennial years for both Whitman and Melville, Voyages examines the personal and literary journeys of these two…