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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 - James Shapiro | Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
Thu, April 2, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
Event cancelled. A full refund will be issued in the coming week. You do not need to contact us in order to receive a refund.
CANCELLED - Robert B. Reich | The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
Fri, April 3, 2020
12:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15
Event cancelled. Full refunds will be issued in the coming week.
CANCELLED - 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…
CANCELLED - Gallery Walk With Voyages by Road and Sea Co-curator Alex Ames
Fri, April 10, 2020
3:00 P.M.
First Floor Gallery West
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Parkway Central Library
Join co-curator Alex Ames for a 45-minute guided tour of the ​Voyages by Road and Sea exhibition.
CANCELLED - 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,…
CANCELLED - Explore the Whitman Sampler With Artist Kelly McQuain
Fri, April 24, 2020
3:00 P.M.
First Floor Gallery West
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Parkway Central Library
Join Voyages by Road and Sea featured artist Kelly McQuain in the West Gallery for an up-close look at his Whitman Sampler . McQuain will share the origin of this unique sculpture and explain the significance of its hidden parts. McQuain writes this about his artwork: "The Whitman Sampler…
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…
CANCELLED - 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…
Jennifer Steinhauer | The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress
Tue, May 12, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
A reporter for the New York Times for 25 years, Jennifer Steinhauer has covered the United States Congress since 2010. Her former assignments include Los Angeles bureau chief and New York City Hall bureau chief. The winner of the Newswoman’s Club of New York Front Page Deadline…
Voyages by Road and Sea
Now through Sun, August 30, 2020
8:00 A.M.
First Floor Gallery West
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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…