Community as Rebellion: Lorgia García Peña & Ruha Benjamin

Trenton Free Public Library 120 Academy Street, Trenton, NJ, United States

Ruha Benjamin will join Lorgia García Peña to discuss her new book, Community as Rebellion in a hybrid event. Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much like other women scholars of color, García Peña has struggled against the colonizing, […]

Ruha Benjamin & Nicole Fleetwood Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice by Dr. Ruha Benjamin is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day. Vividly recounting her personal experiences and those of her family, Benjamin shows how seemingly minor decisions and habits could spread virally and have exponentially positive effects. […]

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Gene Jarrett & Simon Gikandi Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet […]

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