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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The East Side Freedom Library Invites You To Join With Your Neighbors In A Discussion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Classic Novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God With our partners, Metro State University and the Saint Paul Public Library System, and the support of the National Endowment of the Arts, the East Side Freedom Library is […]

The East Side Freedom Library Invites You To Join With Your Neighbors In A Discussion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Classic Novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God With our partners, Metro State University and the Saint Paul Public Library System, and the support of the National Endowment of the Arts, the East Side Freedom Library is […]

The East Side Freedom Library Invites You To Join With Your Neighbors In A Discussion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Classic Novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God With our partners, Metro State University and the Saint Paul Public Library System, and the support of the National Endowment of the Arts, the East Side Freedom Library is […]

The East Side Freedom Library Invites You To Join With Your Neighbors In A Discussion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Classic Novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God With our partners, Metro State University and the Saint Paul Public Library System, and the support of the National Endowment of the Arts, the East Side Freedom Library is […]

The Hmong Archives is a collection of rare - in some cases singular! - artifacts, artwork, documents and more that tell the stories of the Hmong people, in all their lands including Minnesota. The collections has been housed at other great twin cities institutions, but on February 10 we celebrate the Archives moving into the […]

The Hmong Archives is a collection of rare - in some cases singular! - artifacts, artwork, documents and more that tell the stories of the Hmong people, in all their lands including Minnesota. The collections has been housed at other great twin cities institutions, but on February 10 we celebrate the Archives moving into the […]

The Hmong Archives is a collection of rare - in some cases singular! - artifacts, artwork, documents and more that tell the stories of the Hmong people, in all their lands including Minnesota. The collections has been housed at other great twin cities institutions, but on February 10 we celebrate the Archives moving into the […]

The Hmong Archives is a collection of rare - in some cases singular! - artifacts, artwork, documents and more that tell the stories of the Hmong people, in all their lands including Minnesota. The collections has been housed at other great twin cities institutions, but on February 10 we celebrate the Archives moving into the […]

Stories of Wit and Wisdom comes to the East Side Freedom Library in partnership with the Black Storytellers Alliance, and features Nothando and Vusumuzi Zulu. This event is featured as a part of the Metro Big Read, and sponsored by the Institute for Community Engagement and Scholarship of Metropolitan State University and the National Endowment […]

Stories of Wit and Wisdom comes to the East Side Freedom Library in partnership with the Black Storytellers Alliance, and features Nothando and Vusumuzi Zulu. This event is featured as a part of the Metro Big Read, and sponsored by the Institute for Community Engagement and Scholarship of Metropolitan State University and the National Endowment […]

Stories of Wit and Wisdom comes to the East Side Freedom Library in partnership with the Black Storytellers Alliance, and features Nothando and Vusumuzi Zulu. This event is featured as a part of the Metro Big Read, and sponsored by the Institute for Community Engagement and Scholarship of Metropolitan State University and the National Endowment […]