Apr
5
4:00pm
Speak Up/Speak Out Community Panel: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
By Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus Metropolitan Library is hosting this virtual community program. Live chat with panelists from your computer or mobile device.
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Speak Up/Speak Out:
Conversations About Race
Tuesday, April 5 | 12 p.m.
Join us as we continue to discuss race and social justice in our communities and in America. Your library is more than a home for books; it also offers spaces to listen, to reflect and to grow. We’re once again inviting central Ohioans to join us in reading, discussing and reflecting upon the same book.
Our moderators and panelists are community leaders who strive to speak up and speak out to address institutional and systemic inequities that face our communities.
SELECTION: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy – from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans – has made it impossible to ignore the issue of race. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to “model minorities” in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
MODERATOR:
Dr. Anthony Wilson
Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer
Columbus Metropolitan Library
PANELISTS:
Matt Barnes
Anchor
NBC4
Joy Bivens
Deputy County Administrator and Agency Director
Franklin County Dept. of Job and Family Services
Robert W. Clark
Director of Public Safety
City of Columbus
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Register and watch the recording afterwards.
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Columbus Metropolitan Library
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