The Prince George's County Memorial Library System and Prince George's County Human Relations Commission present "The Elephant We Don't See: A Diversity Dialogue" every last Tuesday of the month. Michelle Hamiel and Kyla Hanington discuss equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism with books as a launch point.
About the Book:
Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that “speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR).
These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others.
An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.
About the Author:
TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
Mon, Oct 28 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Tue, Oct 29 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Wed, Oct 30 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Thu, Oct 31 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Fri, Nov 01 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Sat, Nov 02 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Sun, Nov 03 | Closed |
Mon, Oct 28 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Tue, Oct 29 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Wed, Oct 30 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Thu, Oct 31 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Fri, Nov 01 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Sat, Nov 02 | 9:00AM to 5:30PM |
Sun, Nov 03 | Closed |
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