I established a free collaborative program series with Monroe Branch Library and Monroe Family YMCA designed by turns for families, teens, and adults. Beginning with common ground in a book selection, participants explore black history, unconscious bias, and ways to be an effective ally. Here are flyers representing the past three events.
2019
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32075671-the-hate-u-give
MRER - February - 2019
2018
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30107586-frederick-douglass
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28954117-freedom-over-me
Monroe Reads to End Racism, 2018, v2.1
2017
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25657130-all-american-boys
Monroe Reads to End Racism -rev
2016
In support of the YWCA Rochester & Monroe County’s campaign, Stand Against Racism, I developed a collaborative program Reading to End Racism featuring
three free public events at Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County:
For Teens, in Teen Central:
How It Went Down, by Kekla Magoon
For Children, in the Secret Room:
Chocolate Me! By Taye Diggs, a graduate of Rochester’s School of the Arts
Child reading Chocolate Me! in Central Library’s Secret Room
Panel discussion, in the Rundel Auditorium:
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,
by Isabel Wilkerson
