At the River I Stand: screening and discussion

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

The East Side Freedom Library will screen the award-winning documentary"At the River I Stand"  on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 18, at 7 PM.  This powerful, hour-long film tells the story of the Memphis sanitation workers who organized with AFSCME in 1968 to demand a living wage, respect, and their rights to bargain collectively.  It was during […]

Theater: Dear World by Ten Thousand Things

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

Join us for Dear World, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee,with music by Jerry Herman. Directed by Sarah Rasmussen, the new Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis with music direction by Peter Vitale and Annie Enneking. Set in Paris, the story center's around a group of eccentrics and outcasts who band together to thwart the […]

Theater: Dear World by Ten Thousand Things

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

Join us for Dear World, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee,with music by Jerry Herman. Directed by Sarah Rasmussen, the new Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis with music direction by Peter Vitale and Annie Enneking. Set in Paris, the story center's around a group of eccentrics and outcasts who band together to thwart the […]

Theater: Dear World by Ten Thousand Things

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

Join us for Dear World, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee,with music by Jerry Herman. Directed by Sarah Rasmussen, the new Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis with music direction by Peter Vitale and Annie Enneking. Set in Paris, the story center's around a group of eccentrics and outcasts who band together to thwart the […]

Theater: Dear World by Ten Thousand Things

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

Join us for Dear World, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee,with music by Jerry Herman. Directed by Sarah Rasmussen, the new Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis with music direction by Peter Vitale and Annie Enneking. Set in Paris, the story center's around a group of eccentrics and outcasts who band together to thwart the […]

The Case for Indigenous Renaming

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

What's in a name? What does it matter that a popular Minneapolis lake is named for a prominent slaveholder and secessionist? Have you considered the place in history occupied by the man for whom our county ("Ramsey") is named? What streets are named for labor organizers, fighters for civil rights, advocates of gender equity? Dr. […]

The Case for Indigenous Renaming

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

What's in a name? What does it matter that a popular Minneapolis lake is named for a prominent slaveholder and secessionist? Have you considered the place in history occupied by the man for whom our county ("Ramsey") is named? What streets are named for labor organizers, fighters for civil rights, advocates of gender equity? Dr. […]

The Case for Indigenous Renaming

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

What's in a name? What does it matter that a popular Minneapolis lake is named for a prominent slaveholder and secessionist? Have you considered the place in history occupied by the man for whom our county ("Ramsey") is named? What streets are named for labor organizers, fighters for civil rights, advocates of gender equity? Dr. […]

The Case for Indigenous Renaming

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

What's in a name? What does it matter that a popular Minneapolis lake is named for a prominent slaveholder and secessionist? Have you considered the place in history occupied by the man for whom our county ("Ramsey") is named? What streets are named for labor organizers, fighters for civil rights, advocates of gender equity? Dr. […]

Discussion: African American Pulp

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

Paula Rabinowitz, author of AMERICAN PULP: HOW PAPERBACKS BROUGHT MODERNISM TO MAIN STREET, will discuss the ways that African Americans were represented in the commercial popular literature of the 1930s-1950s, and the ways that African American writers created their own representations in this genre. Paula is donating thousands of books to the Freedom Library, including […]

Discussion: African American Pulp

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

Paula Rabinowitz, author of AMERICAN PULP: HOW PAPERBACKS BROUGHT MODERNISM TO MAIN STREET, will discuss the ways that African Americans were represented in the commercial popular literature of the 1930s-1950s, and the ways that African American writers created their own representations in this genre. Paula is donating thousands of books to the Freedom Library, including […]

Discussion: African American Pulp

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

Paula Rabinowitz, author of AMERICAN PULP: HOW PAPERBACKS BROUGHT MODERNISM TO MAIN STREET, will discuss the ways that African Americans were represented in the commercial popular literature of the 1930s-1950s, and the ways that African American writers created their own representations in this genre. Paula is donating thousands of books to the Freedom Library, including […]

Discussion: African American Pulp

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

Paula Rabinowitz, author of AMERICAN PULP: HOW PAPERBACKS BROUGHT MODERNISM TO MAIN STREET, will discuss the ways that African Americans were represented in the commercial popular literature of the 1930s-1950s, and the ways that African American writers created their own representations in this genre. Paula is donating thousands of books to the Freedom Library, including […]

Black History Month Film Series: Rize

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

In Celebration of Black History Month The East Side Freedom Library Invites You To The First Film In Our Black History Month Series For hundreds of years, African Americans have used the arts to develop their responses to the challenges they have faced. Rize, an award winning documentary film, traces the emergence in south central Los Angeles […]

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Black History Month Film Series: Rize

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

In Celebration of Black History Month The East Side Freedom Library Invites You To The First Film In Our Black History Month Series For hundreds of years, African Americans have used the arts to develop their responses to the challenges they have faced. Rize, an award winning documentary film, traces the emergence in south central Los Angeles […]

FREE

Black History Month Film Series: Rize

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

In Celebration of Black History Month The East Side Freedom Library Invites You To The First Film In Our Black History Month Series For hundreds of years, African Americans have used the arts to develop their responses to the challenges they have faced. Rize, an award winning documentary film, traces the emergence in south central Los Angeles […]

FREE

Black History Month Film Series: Rize

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

In Celebration of Black History Month The East Side Freedom Library Invites You To The First Film In Our Black History Month Series For hundreds of years, African Americans have used the arts to develop their responses to the challenges they have faced. Rize, an award winning documentary film, traces the emergence in south central Los Angeles […]

FREE

Black History Month Film Series: The Watermelon Woman

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

In Celebration of Black History Month the East Side Freedom Library Invites You To The Second Film In Our Black History Month Series African American history shows us that words and images have power. In this feature film, The Watermelon Woman, stereotypes and representations are contested in the present, as well as the past. The […]

Black History Month Film Series: The Watermelon Woman

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

In Celebration of Black History Month the East Side Freedom Library Invites You To The Second Film In Our Black History Month Series African American history shows us that words and images have power. In this feature film, The Watermelon Woman, stereotypes and representations are contested in the present, as well as the past. The […]

Black History Month Film Series: The Watermelon Woman

East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States

In Celebration of Black History Month the East Side Freedom Library Invites You To The Second Film In Our Black History Month Series African American history shows us that words and images have power. In this feature film, The Watermelon Woman, stereotypes and representations are contested in the present, as well as the past. The […]