BU to Host National Antiracist Book Festival Saturday
Upwards of 3,000 people attended the first National Antiracist Book Festival in 2019, and sales have already doubled that. Organizers are expecting to sell up to 8,000 tickets for this year’s virtual event. Books
National Antiracist Book Festival Saturday
Ilhan Omar, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, and BU’s Ibram X. Kendi are among more than 60 writers expected, virtually
April 17, 2021 Twitter Facebook
More than 60 important authors will gather virtually on Saturday for the second National Antiracist Book Festival, which aims to “challenge, inspire and mobilize” readers.
Hear Alicia Garza
(The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart) and Ilhan Omar
A Reason for Hope In July 1960, at the age of 26, Jane Goodall traveled to what is now Tanzania and ventured into the little-known world of wild chimpanzees. Her work transformed our understanding of chimpanzees and redefined the relationship between humans and animals in ways that continue to resonate around the world. Over the past 60 years, Dr. Goodall has not only shown us the urgent need to protect chimpanzees from extinction; she has also redefined species conservation to include the needs of local people and the environment. Now, with climate change threatening ways of life around the globe, she remains determined and even hopeful. She will be joined in conversation with Bill Nye (the Science Guy), one of the world’s foremost advocates for a deeper understanding about our relationship to science and the natural world.
We know by now (or should if we are paying attention) that the Black American experience is not a monolith. (BlackIllustrations.com)
We know by now (or should if we are paying attention) that the Black American experience is not a monolith. Though there are some overarching themes, our individual experience varies widely and has ever since the first Africans were kidnapped and taken to America in 1619.
Four Hundred Souls, edited by Ibram X. Kendi (author of
How to Be an Antiracist) and Keisha N. Blain (author of
Set the World on Fire), presents a new way to engage Black American history. It is a community history of Black America, a story told by the people inhabiting it a for us by us endeavor, conceived out of the premise that, as Kendi puts it, solidarity is the womb of community.
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