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Transition Time at ESFL

Sep 12, 2022 | Blog

Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Kin, This is the final blog we will be writing for ESFL’s twice-monthly e-newsletter (if you’re not subscribed, you can sign up here). In the future you will be hearing from our new executive director, Saengmany Ratsabout. We...

Solidarity Forever

Aug 29, 2022 | Blog

Dear Sisters, Brother, and Kin, We are unabashed in our mission—”to inspire solidarity, work for justice, and advocate for equity for all.” Our collections (now at 30,000 books, musical recordings, movies, and material objects) and our programs have been...

Putting the Klan in its Place: The Second Coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon

Aug 23, 2022 | Blog, Book Geek Shelf Talkers

A review by Kathrine Grimm One of the goals of the East Side Freedom Library is to place the past and the present in conversation with each other. As a summer collaborator at ESFL, I was drawn to a book which does precisely that. In The Second Coming of the KKK: The...

How Do We Tell Stories?

Aug 15, 2022 | Blog

Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Kin, Over the past eight years (!) the East Side Freedom Library has been a place for the telling of stories which have been ignored, even denied, by the dominant narrative. We have supported and encouraged the uses of poetry, fiction,...

In Praise of Curb Cuts

Aug 12, 2022 | Blog

by Tom O’Connell “A small ramp built into the curb of a sidewalk to make it easier for people using strollers or wheelchairs to pass from the sidewalk to the road.” (The North American Dictionary). I never paid much attention to curb cuts until a few years ago. Fact...

The Future in the Present

Aug 2, 2022 | Blog

Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Kin, The West Indian scholar-activist C.L.R. James said his (and our) task is to find the future in the present. Where do we see the relationships, values, and behaviors in our everyday lives that could be the building blocks of the society...

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