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Black Like Me: Writing Our History Film Festival Wrap-Up Panel Discussion

Fri Feb 26, 2021 | 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm

The 'Like Me - Outdoor Edition Film Festival' is a five-part film series that focuses on stories of communities that have been historically and intentionally excluded from outdoor media and storytelling. Diversity has al...

Tamara Payne: The Dead Are Arising - The Life of Malcolm X

Mon Mar 01, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

For nearly 30 years, Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist Les Payne set forward to unearth a complete retelling of the extraordinary life of Malcolm X. Based on over a hundred hours of interviews, The Dead...

Robert Jones Jr: The Prophets

Wed Mar 03, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

This staggering debut novel from Robert Jones Jr. tells the story of the forbidden love between two enslaved men on a plantation in the deep south. Finding solace in the hollowed-out shed where they tend to their daily d...

Véronique Tadjo: In the Company of Men

Fri Mar 05, 2021 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, Véronique Tadjo's poignant novel, In the Company of Men , reflects like a fable on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanit...

Tawhida Tanya Evanson: Book of Wings

Wed Mar 31, 2021 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

In her sweeping and impressionistic novel, Book of Wings , poet, dervish, and oral storyteller, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, comes to terms with what it means to stand on one's own two feet in an uncertain world. The acc...

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