To Bring Three of His Bestselling Books to Life Onscreen
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Netflix Partners With Renowned Author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi to Bring Three of His Bestselling Books to Life Onscreen
Award-winning creators Roger Ross Williams, Mara Brock Akil and Chris Nee attached to the projects
Netflix is partnering with acclaimed author and antiracist scholar Dr. Ibram X. Kendi to produce three new projects based on his bestselling and award-winning books: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You, and Antiracist Baby. Netflix is developing the books across several different formats and genres, offering a timely and thoughtful examination of racism for audiences of all ages.
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Tickets are $10 for the public and free for UCSB Students (registration required). For tickets and information, call 805-893-3535, or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
Through her writing, Wilkerson brings the invisible and the marginalized into the light. In her lectures, she explores with authority the need to reconcile America’s karmic inheritance and the origins of both our divisions and our shared commonality.
Wilkerson is a native of Washington, D.C., and a daughter of the Great Migration, the mass movement that she would go on to write about. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1994 as Chicago Bureau chief of The New York Times, making her the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
Everybody Reads 2021 will showcase Ross Gay’s ‘The Book of Delights’
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 19, 2021
Poet and author Ross Gay s The Book of Delights is the Everybody Reads 2021 selection.Author photo via Getty Images
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After the year that was 2020, how about reading a book that celebrates everyday wonders?
You can do so by joining in the Multnomah County Library’s community reading program, Everybody Reads, which this year will feature poet and author Ross Gay’s essay collection “The Book of Delights.”
“ ‘The Book of Delights’ is a needed burst of sunshine at a time heavy with rage, sorrow and pain,” Director of Libraries Vailey Oehlke said in a press release. “Ross Gay encourages us to exercise our delight muscle every day and to ‘attend to the ways we make each other possible.’ ”
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Hey, you all! It’s 2021 finally!! And HPPR’s Radio Readers is back with a spring read for all of us! What with all the lessons offered by 2020 (may it rest in peace), we’ve opted for a series of books to help us explore
Cultures in a Common Land, as a way to talk about how to live alongside others whose beliefs and ways of being seem not to align with our own. Know what I mean?
To frame our conversations, we’ve chosen a trio of titles – classic titles from the 1990’s culled from archived book lists from Radio Readers throughout our region and…our choices are could I have a drum roll, please? Barbara Kingsolver’s 1999 controversial novel
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