The Million Book Project will bring curated 500-book literary time-capsules to 1,000 prisons and juvenile detention centers to each state in the United States. The Million Book Project, was conceptualized by poet and legal scholar Reginald Dwayne Betts, who serves as its project director.
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Read more about the project at https://millionbookproject.org/
A special Mondays at Beinecke gallery talk online with W. Jason Miller, Professor of Literature at North Carolina State University.
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Miller is the author of “Origins of the Dream: Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric” (University of Florida Press, 2016), which traces the Rev, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s use of Langston Hughes’s poetry in his sermons and speeches from 1956-1968.
Martin Johnson will discuss the Solomon Sir Jones Films, 29 silent black and white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928.
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A conversation with Lakota ledger artists Dwayne Wilcox, Joe Pulliam, and Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy, moderated by George Miles.
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Join us for a special gallery talk online featuring holiday-related poems by Langston Hughes read by Professor Willie Jennings of the Yale Divinity School together with a selection from Beinecke Library staff of a Christmas Cards from 1950 received by Hughes and special DIY cards he sent to friends that year.
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SHELLYNE RODRIGUEZ is an artist, teacher, agitator, and community organizer from the Bronx. These multiple roles have converged and have been in conflict in myriad ways throughout the years and have sown lessons as well as unanswered questions. Join us for a candid discussion of Shellyne’s experiences as a community organizer and an artist.
madison moore will discuss visual cultures of fashion using the Beinecke Library’s collection of 212 shopping bags, ca. 1978-2005.
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Beinecke Library’s Melissa Barton, Nancy Kuhl, Tubyez Cropper, and Michael Morand will speak on seven of the authors, artists, and activists photographed by Carl Van Vechten and whose images are included in a new outdoor display on the library’s ground floor windows.
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Bayeté Ross Smith, photographer, artist, and education worker, will discuss his work, now on view in the show “Who Governs” at Artspace in New Haven, where it is in conversation with digitized images of materials from Beinecke Library collections.
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Beinecke Library’s Melissa Barton, Nancy Kuhl, and Tubyez Cropper will speak on some of the authors, artists, and activists photographed by Carl Van Vechten and whose images are included in a new outdoor display on the library’s ground floor windows.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/36uRjpw
