Tuesday, June 15 (Part I) & Wednesday, June 16 (Part II)
5:00 – 6:00 PM (EST) both days
Part I
On Tuesday, June 15, 2021, Jessica Marie Johnson hosts Jennifer L. Morgan at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History on her forthcoming book, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic.
On Wednesday, June 16, 2021, Jennifer L. Morgan hosts Jessica Marie Johnson at the Center for Black Visual Culture & Institute of African American Affairs about her book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.
Friday, June 18th, 2021
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM EDT
How can a deeper understanding of the legacy of slavery help the United States better address its current injustices? In his new book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, The Atlantic staff writer Clint Smith takes readers to nine monuments and landmarks — some that are honest about the past and some that are not — and reflects on how the history of slavery continues to reverberate today. As we celebrate emancipation on Juneteenth, Smith joins Theodore R. Johnson, director of the Brennan Center’s Fellows Program, to discuss the hopeful role that memory can play in making sense of our country.
This event is produced in partnership with the Brennan Center for Justice.
Registration is required in order to receive log-in details for the Zoom webinar. Please note that this program may be recorded.
Offered by the METRO Library Council
Friday, June 18, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET
Join us on Friday, June 18th from 2:00 to 3:00pm for a Juneteenth Celebration. This gathering is meant for BIPOC cultural workers only; we kindly ask that allies and comrades who identify as non-BIPOC to sit this one out.
This call will be facilitated by Traci Mark (Media Archivist and Educational Programming Associate at METRO) and Zakiya Collier (Digital Archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture).