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Mondays at Beinecke: The Million Book Project with Reginald Dwayne Betts

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.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3hMxIX7
Read more about the project at https://millionbookproject.org/

Origins of the Dream: Langston Hughes's Poetry & Martin Luther King Jr.'s Rhetoric

A special Mondays at Beinecke gallery talk online with W. Jason Miller, Professor of Literature at North Carolina State University.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/38eUILm
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.

Art & Protest: Shellyne Rodriguez, A Life Practice: On Art, Protests, and Organizing

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.

Mondays at Beinecke: Van Vechten Color Photographs in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection (Part 2)

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.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3m0Ap8R

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