Speak Up/Speak Out Community Panel: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Sep

13

4:00pm

Speak Up/Speak Out Community Panel: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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, Sept. 13 | 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: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of Black women and men. What is it like to inhabit a Black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?

MODERATOR:

Dr. Anthony Wilson Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer Columbus Metropolitan Library
PANELISTS: Joy Bivens Deputy County Administrator of Health & Human Service Agencies Franklin County Board of Commissioners
Willard McIntosh Police Officer, Retired Columbus Division of Police
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