Shout Mouse Press 10th Anniversary Celebration
Join Shout Mouse Press for their 10th anniversary celebration.
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Join Shout Mouse Press for their 10th anniversary celebration.
Celebrate the love of reading with local Latino authors and the National Museum of the American Latino at the museum's first Día del Niño: A Celebration of Children’s Storytime and Literacy. Anna Lapera will read from her middle grade novel Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice.
The University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) invites you for a special event to inaugurate the new Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities, featuring world-renowned poet, educator, and activist Nikki Giovanni.
Join Arlington Public Library for a Double Dutch Double Feature! Author Joy Jones will speak about one of her books Jayla Jumps In nd the DC Retro Jumpers will guide patrons through trying double dutch themselves!
Join us for the 9th Annual Walter Awards! The DC Public Library is excited to welcome We Need Diverse Books in presenting the 9th annual Walter Awards.
Join author Anna Lapera and educators Franca Muller Paz and Edwin Pérez for a night of book talk, teaching ideas, and celebration of activism for middle grade literature!
Come learn the story and legacy of Washington, DC’s African American authors of children’s literature at this free event featuring noted authors, public television and radio producers and hosts, book illustrators, bookstore owners and civil rights leaders.
Celebrate the launch of three new youth-authored bilingual children's books with Shoutmouse Press.
Ken Grossinger, noted movement strategist, will be in conversation about his new book ART WORKS: How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together with longtime labor and racial justice activist Bill Fletcher, Jr.
The Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) are presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best children’s and young adult books on Africa published or republished in the U.S.
This event contains 3 different exciting, brain-feeding, imagination-growing activations: a book fair that will last the duration of the event, a writing workshop, and a panel discussion on banned books.
Join Arlington Public Library for a presentation by Matthew Desmond about his newest book Poverty, By America, which investigates why the United States has more poverty than any other advanced democracy.
In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. Dr. Love will be in conversation with Tony Keith Jr., PhD.
Join the Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy (IREL) for two summer sessions with co-directors Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul and Tricia Ebarvia and educators from across the country: Reading Toward Freedom and Writing Toward Freedom.
Join the Kennedy Center for an Indigenous Washington, D.C. community celebration featuring native dancers, singers, and an indigenous DJ! Dr. Elizabeth Rule will also launch her new book Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation’s Capital.
A hybrid workshop for Black parents and educators, introducing children’s books and YA books with corresponding curriculum activities.
This panel will explore the histories of locally-founded Black queer publications and their impact.
Loyalty Bookstore will host a virtual celebration of the book What It Cost Us with contributors Joseph Chuku, Iman Ilias, Deyssy Mosso, and Saylenis Palmore, moderated by Candice Iloh!.
Virtual BLM at School event. Michelle Coles, civil rights attorney and and author of Black Was the Ink, to discuss the parallels between the Reconstruction Era & today with Mimi Eisen, co-author of Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction.
Light refreshments will be provided at the event.
RSVP by November 30 to attend a talk and workshop with DMV-based author and activist Deepa Iyer. Her new book, Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection, is a roadmap for people and organizations seeking to deepen and expand their connections with social change efforts in today's world.
Explore children's storytelling, representation, and beginning important conversations. Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.
Join Maurice Sykes and Kyra Ostendorf for the launch of their book Child Care Justice: Transforming the System of Care for Young Children.
Join bestselling, all-star authors Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon for a discussion of their new novel of Black teen love, Whiteout, a sequel to Blackout.
The Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) are presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best children’s and young adult books on Africa published or republished in the U.S.
A conversation with Clint Smith, author of D.C. Public Library’s DC Reads title How the Word is Passed.
We are celebrating the release of The Life of/ La Vida de Llort with a book signing w/ Author Cynthia Gonzalez, Arts & Crafts & Story Time
Join D.C. Public Library, Loyalty Bookstores, and PEN America for a conversation with and for artists, booksellers, educators, librarians, parents, students, writers, and readers of all ages.
Join Derecka Purnell, author of "Becoming Abolitionists", & local community groups for a conversation on abolition & community organizing.
Join local author Dave Zirin (A People’s History of Sports in the United States) and Teaching for Change associate director Nakeesha “Keesha” Ceran for a conversation diving deep into what the “Kaepernick Effect” means and how this event reverberated not only across sports but politics and pop culture.
Hear a panel discussion on how Black hair is portrayed in children’s and young adult literature.