First a discussion on the late author and active audra lorde, following by eddie glaude on james baldwin. Welcome to the Shomberg Center book festival. We had to reimagine a block long multistaged outdoor philadelphia as a viral one with your favorite write centers opportunity to discover more books. This we we have 35 authors and midraters sharing narratives from the u. S. And uk to west africa and jamaica, each night we go between the past and present like the Shomberg Centers archives and programs. Tonights program, audra lordo features writers roxanne gay, tracy. Something i and mahogany browne. Im the associate director of Public Programs and exhibitions at the Shomberg Center for research in black culture. Were celebrating 95 years of one of the world residents leading cultural institutions devoted to research, preservation and exhibition. Our are care has 11 million ims at that time illuminate the richness of black history and culture and we have met some items v8 digitally. Vis
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In conversation. Part of our ongoing Virtual Event series. Were so fortunate to be able to be here with their authors and their writing. Every week we will be hosting an event via zoom. This evenings event well have your questions available. If you go to the check section. They have also included in the chat. And lastly. The technical logistics may come up. We apologize in advance for that. We will do our best to recall any issues. Im so pleased to introduce tonights the speaker. With the graduate school of the arts. In taught at yale university. It is featured there. With the national footwear. With the basic works before joining that. The captivating portrait. They were spinning the first. With the morning in protest. May it not be confused with the construction. The result is a book that is exactly dash matt elegantly crafted. It was called a bridge. With politics and culture. We are so honored to host this event tonight. Im gonna turn the event over to kelsey. How are you doing ton
Giants outfielder Mike Yastrzemski discussing the situation. We understand the world is a bigger place than the baseball field and when events of the world are overflowing on to the baseball field, we dont have control over that, and thats when we have to adapt and thats when we have to make our choices on how we want to handle situations. I think the thing that was most enlightening about yesterday is how many good, highquality conversations happened around the clubhouse. Four of five of them where people were sitting around talking about really important social issues and really looking for ways to make changes and being creative of how to protest. Talking with a source connected to the nba, the players are going to use their platform now to push owners to make political change, not just donate money and hope for the best. Theyll also push for police reform. One item on the agenda thats going to be more immediate, they want nba owners to open up their arenas to use as voting location
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