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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Zora Neale Hurston and Black History Month with Ibram X. Kendi\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY: ZORA NEALE HURSTON\nAUTHOR TALK: IBRAM X. KENDI\, PH.D. \nPBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, is pleased to host a program with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi\, who recently adapted Zora Neale Hurston’s Magnolia Flower and soon-to-be-released The Making of Butterflies. The program is offered in connection with the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming A Space on PBS.  Join us to gain insights into these wonderful children’s books that introduce Zora Neale Hurston folk tales to audiences of all ages. \nThis program is also being offered in collaboration with ASALH’s Black History Month Festival. \nABOUT THE BOOK: MAGNOLIA FLOWER\nBorn to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears\, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world\, she longs to connect with others\, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free\, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one’s heart. The acclaimed writer of several American classics\, Zora Neale Hurston wrote this stirring folktale brimming with poetic prose\, culture\, and history. It was first published as a short story in The Spokesman in 1925 and later in her collection Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (2020). \nTenderly retold by #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi\, Magnolia Flower is a story of a transformative and radical devotion between generations of Indigenous and Black people in America. With breathtaking illustrations by Loveis Wise\, this picture book reminds us that there is no force strong enough to stop love. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK: THE MAKING OF BUTTERFLIES\nFirst Folktale from the creators of Magnolia Flower\, Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi\, about the origin of butterflies. The Creator wuz all finished and thru makin’ de world. \nBut soon\, the Creator finds themselves flying through the sky\, making gorgeous butterflies of every color\, shape\, and size. Find out why butterflies were made in Zora Neale Hurston’s stunning and layered African American folktale retold by #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author Ibram X. Kendi and illustrated by Kah Yangni. This accessible and sizable board book is perfect for introducing the youngest of readers to the beauty of Hurston’s storytelling and will spark curiosity in children about how things in our world came to be. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ibram X. Kendi\, Ph.D.\nIbram X. Kendi is a National Book Award–winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. His books include Antiracist Baby; Goodnight Racism; How to Be an Antiracist; and How to Raise an Antiracist. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. In 2020\, Time magazine named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He has also been awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. \nABOUT THE SHOW: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE\nRaised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville\, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance\, best remembered for her novel\, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles\, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean\, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people\, an unusual practice at the time\, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.  \nDirected by Tracy Heather Strain\, produced by Randall MacLowry and executive produced by Cameo George\, Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race\, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-zora-neale-hurston-and-black-history-month-with-ibram-x-kendi/
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SUMMARY:“Climate Change and the Importance of the Urban Landscape” with Martha Schwartz | Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:As Founding Partner of Martha Schwartz Partners\, Landscape Architects\, Martha Schwartz is a world-renowned designer. She has over 40 years of experience designing and implementing large scale masterplans\, mixed-use developments\, urban regeneration projects\, as well as civic plazas\, parks\, institutional landscapes\, corporate headquarters\, installations\, and gardens. Martha Schwartz Partners works with city leaders\, planners and builders at a strategic level so as to advocate for the inclusion of the public landscape as a means to achieve environmental\, economic and social sustainability. \nLearn More>> \n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series 2023 Season\nThis season\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/climate-change-and-the-importance-of-the-urban-landscape-with-martha-schwartz-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:Finding Your Roots: Genealogy & The Next Generation
DESCRIPTION:Wondering what’s on the minds of youth when it comes to genealogy? Join the virtual conversation with Student Reporting Labs on Wed. Feb. 8 at 8/7c. \nThis event\, Genealogy & The Next Generation\, is the second of a 4-part National Conversation Series in connection with Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, and presents an intergenerational conversation about family trees. The conversation will be moderated by PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab alumna Sonal Prakash and feature Finding Your Roots lead genealogist Akosua E. Moore\, filmmaker and scholar Thomas Allen Harris\, and college sophomore Naima Blanco-Norberg who is delving into genealogy research. \nSeason Nine of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, will air on PBS stations nationwide on Tuesdays at 8pm ET beginning on January 3\, 2023. Tune-in as Dr. Gates and his team uncover the long-buried secrets\, hidden identities\, and lost ancestors of today’s most compelling personalities. \nTo learn more visit pbs.org/finding-your-roots \nAbout the “Finding Your Roots” National Conversation Series\nNow in its ninth season\, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, continues to be one of the most popular series in public media.  The program expertly uncovers the long-buried secrets\, hidden identities\, and lost ancestors of today’s most compelling personalities\, and explores the connections that bind us together. \nJoin us in the first few months of 2023 for a compelling series of 4 virtual conversations on topics related to genealogy – one event each month Finding Your Roots is on the air (January-April). \nLearn more about the conversation series\, and see the full schedule. \nFunding Credits:\nCorporate support for Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr.\, Season Nine is provided by Ancestry and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Candace King Weir; and by The Inkwell Society and its members Jim and Susan Swartz; Hayward and Kathy Draper; Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein; Nicole Commissiong and Darnell Armstrong; and Anne Wojcicki.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/finding-your-roots-genealogy-the-next-generation/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Music as Resistance with Jonathan Abrams
DESCRIPTION:CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY: MUSIC AS RESISTANCE\nAUTHOR TALK: JONATHAN ABRAMS \nPBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and WTTW/Chicago PBS\, is pleased to host a program with award-winning New York Times staff writer Jonathan Abrams\, who is the author of The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop. This program is offered in connection with Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World\, which just premiered on PBS earlier this year and can be streamed at PBS.org (check your local listing). Join us to learn more about the birth of Hip Hop culture and its impact on society. \n  \nThis program is also being offered in collaboration with ASALH’s Black History Month Festival\, which is focusing on Black Resistance. The program will explore Hip Hop as music as resistance. \nABOUT THE BOOK: THE COME UP: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE RISE OF HIP HOP\nThe music that would come to be known as hip-hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now\, fifty years later\, it’s the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century\, hip-hop and its groundbreaking DJs and artists—nearly all of them people of color from some of America’s most overlooked communities—pushed the boundaries of music to new frontiers\, while transfixing the country’s youth and reshaping fashion\, art\, and even language. \nAnd yet\, the stories of many hip-hop pioneers and their individual contributions in the pre-Internet days of mixtapes and word of mouth are rarely heard—and some are at risk of being lost forever. Now\, in The Come Up\, the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Abrams offers the most comprehensive account so far of hip-hop’s rise\, a multi-decade chronicle told in the voices of the people who made it happen. In more than three hundred interviews conducted over three years\, Abrams has captured the stories of the DJs\, executives\, producers\, and artists who both witnessed and themselves forged the history of hip-hop. Masterfully combining these voices into a seamless symphonic narrative\, Abrams traces how the genre grew out of the resourcefulness of a neglected population in the South Bronx\, and from there how it flowed into New York City’s other boroughs\, and beyond—from electrifying live gatherings\, then on to radio and vinyl\, below to the Mason-Dixon Line\, west to Los Angeles through gangster rap and G-funk\, and then across generations. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: JONATHAN ABRAMS\nJonathan Abrams is an award-winning staff reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of two previous books\, Boys Among Men and All the Pieces Matter. A graduate of the University of Southern California\, Abrams was formerly a staff writer at Bleacher Report\, Grantland\, and the Los Angeles Times. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR: ANGEL IDOWU\nAngel Idowu currently serves as the JCS Fund of the DuPage Foundation Arts Correspondent for WTTW’s Chicago Tonight\, Black Voices and Latino Voices. A Chicago native\, she is also VP of Archives for the National Association of Black Journalists Chicago Chapter\, a mentor with LINK Unlimited\, a developing screenwriter\, runs her own production company\, FoomiLOLA Media\, and heads a nonprofit geared toward art education resources. . She received her Master’s in Journalism from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. \nABOUT THE SHOW: FIGHT THE POWER\n“Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World” is an incredible narrative of struggle\, triumph and resistance that will be brought to life through the lens of an art form that has chronicled the emotions\, experiences and expressions of Black and Brown communities: Hip Hop. In the aftermath of America’s racial and political reckoning in 2020\, the perspectives and stories shared in Hip Hop are key to understanding injustice in the U.S. over the last half-century.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-music-as-resistance-with-jonathan-abrams/
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SUMMARY:"With Care" with Nicole Marroquin | Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Marroquin is an interdisciplinary artist\, researcher\, and teacher educator whose work explores spatial justice and Latinx history. Marroquin works with youth and communities to decenter dominant narratives and to address displacement and erasure. Her current work explores belonging through histories of student rebellions in Chicago Public Schools from 1968 to 1980. Through research and creative practice\, she aims to recover and re-present histories of Black and brown youth and women’s leadership in the struggle for justice in Chicago. \nLearn More>> \n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series 2023 Season\nThis season\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/with-care-with-nicole-marroquin-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: 'Freewater' with Amina Luqman-Dawson
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, is pleased to host a conversation with the 2023 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Amina Luqman-Dawson\, author of “Freewater.”  This is Luqman-Dawson’s debut novel for middle-grade students in which she creates an imaginary world in the Great Dismal Swamp’s Freewater\, pulling in and captivating the reader.  She shares her research\, provides insights into her characters\, and her thought-provoking story\, and takes readers on a fantastic adventure.  Don’t miss this incredible conversation. \nABOUT THE BOOK: “Freewater”\nWinner of the John Newbery Medal \nWinner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award  \nAn Indiebound Bestseller \nAward-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical\, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. \nUnder the cover of night\, 12-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada\, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life\, Homer knows there’s no turning back\, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines\, secret doorways\, and over a sky bridge\, the two find a secret community called Freewater\, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved people and some freeborn children\, Homer finds new friends\, almost forgetting where he came from. But when he learns of a threat that could destroy Freewater\, he crafts a plan to find his mother and help his new home. Deeply inspiring and loosely based on the history of maroon communities in the South\, this is a striking tale of survival\, adventure\, friendship\, and courage.  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Amina Luqman-Dawson\nAmina Luqman-Dawson is the author of the pictorial history book “Images of America: African Americans of Petersburg” (Arcadia Publishing) and “Freewater.” Her op-eds on race and popular culture have appeared in The Washington Post\, The San Francisco Chronicleand more. A proud mother of a 13-year-old son\, she and her family reside in Arlington\, VA.
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