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Thursday, May 10 – 7pm SONIA IS SICK AND WILL HAVE TO RESCHEDULE Martin R. Delany, Author Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th Discussion on Martin R. Delany’s books led by Sonia Sanchez including Blake or the Huts of America (a novel- For More Information www.moonstoneartscenter.org/martindelany
Saturday, May 12 – 7pm Challenging Racism for 150 Years Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th A program on Martin R. Delany’s life and thought in the 19th Century by Robert Levine editor of The Martin R. Delany Reader counterpointed by Frank Meeink’s story of embracing and then rejecting racism in the 20th Century – …
Wednesday September 7, 6pm – Non-Fiction A Special Event at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street Mark Auslander author of The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family ($24.95 University of Georgia Press) What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial …
SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 4pm – PoetryCelebration of Light: A Tribute to Lucille CliftonEveryone is invited to share their poems and memories of Lucille “It will take a long time for many of us to truly accept a world that goes on without Lucille Clifton – one that goes on often without much apparent evidence of …
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 7pm – NON-FICTIONArt Sanctuary & Moonstone PresentSCOTT CHRISTIANSONauthor of Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War ($24.95 University of Illinois Press) Freeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet …