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  • Virtual Poetry Reading: “Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn” by Jonathan Zimmerman, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator)

    Virtual Poetry Reading: “Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn” by Jonathan Zimmerman, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator)

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    Larry Robin

    Virtual Poetry Reading: “Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn” by Jonathan Zimmerman, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87881707311?pwd=S0pHK2tnUkp4SzlmajNmV2hCUkFMQT09 Meeting ID: 878 8170 7311 – Passcode: 322627 [su_button url=”https://cityoflightpublishing.com/product/free-speech-and-why-you-should-give-a-damn-2/” target=”blank” background=”#7681c8″ size=”4″ center=”yes”]Purchase This Title[/su_button] [su_divider top=”no” style=”dotted” size=”2″] In America, we like to think we live in a land of liberty, where everyone can…

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” Anthology

    Virtual Poetry Reading: “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” Anthology

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    Larry Robin

    Virtual Poetry Reading: “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” Anthology https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 [su_divider top=”no” style=”dotted” size=”2″] [su_button url=”https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/-libert-galit-fraternit-anthology/289?cs=true&cst=custom” target=”blank” style=”soft” center=”yes” icon=”https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/uploads/1/2/9/1/129102844/s541329794836208511_p289_i1_w800.png“]Purhcase the Anthology[/su_button] “liberty, equality, fraternity” the national motto of France A legacy of the Age of Enlightenment, the motto “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” first appeared during the French Revolution. It…

  • On Toni: She Was A Friend of My Mind

    On Toni: She Was A Friend of My Mind

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    Larry Robin

    Tickets to this event are SOLD OUT. Event Overview The African American Museum in Philadelphia, alongside the Moonstone Arts Center and the Scribe Video Center, is hosting a three-part event in tribute to the award-winning novelist and poet who brought forth the prominent issues on race and identity into the american literary mainstream. The event…

  • A Shadow on Our Hearts: Solider-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam

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    Larry Robin

    The American War in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of poetry. Yet the complex ethical terrain of the conflict is remarkably underexplored, and the prodigious poetic voice of its American participants remains largely unheard. In A Shadow on Our Hearts, Adam…

  • Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle Film Festival

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    Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle Film Festival Breslin Learning Center, District 1199C Hospital Worker Union 100 S. Broad St. Land Title Building, 10th Floor, 215-568-2220 The Created Equal Project uses the power of documentary films to encourage public conversations about the changing meanings of freedom and equality in America. This program was developed in…

  • Historic Overview of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, a Lecture by Charles L. Blockson

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    Historic Overview of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, a Lecture by Charles L. Blockson Wednesday Oct 15, 3pm Temple University, 1330 Polett Walk Charles L. Blockson has distinguished himself as a historian dedicated to Black history, amassing one of the largest private collections of African-American history in the United States, a collection he donated to…

  • A Permanent Accusation: Art Confronts Lynching and Other Acts of Inhumanity

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    Wednesday January 30, 7pm A Permanent Accusation: Art Confronts Lynching and Other Acts of Inhumanity Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-735-9600 Art, in all its forms, is powerful. Poems and music, paintings and dance make us feel as well as think. Art produces the “affect,” the internalized feeling and emotional…

  • Why Black Media? A Panel Discussion

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    Wednesday January 30, 5pm Why Black Media? A Panel Discussion Department of Journalism of the Temple School of Media and Communication First Floor Atrium of Annenberg hall, on 13th street between Norris and Diamond Streets Over 100 years ago Ida B. Wells, one of the first investigative journalists and one of the first black women…

  • A Discussion on Ida B. Wells with John Bracey, Paula Giddings & Sonia Sanchez

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    Thursday January 31, 2013, 7pm A Discussion on Ida B. Wells with John Bracey, Paula Giddings & Sonia Sanchez District 1199C Philadelphia Headquarters, 1319 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-735-1300 No lectures, no scripts, just three amazing, intelligent people discussing an ancestor, a “shero,” an inspiration and her relevance to today. Do you know how…

  • The Continuum of Abuse: Slavery, Black Laws, Contract Labor, Jim Crow, Lynching, Prison/Industrial Complex, Death Penalty

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    Sunday February 3, 2013 – 2pm The Continuum of Abuse: Slavery, Black Laws, Contract Labor, Jim Crow, Lynching, Prison/Industrial Complex, Death Penalty Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia, 1906 S. Rittenhouse Square, 215-735-3456 How come executions in the 21st Century follow the same pattern that lynching did in the 19th Century?  It is significant that the…