Resources for
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Upcoming Events
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cue - Siwar Masannat - Providence, RI
February 13, 2025 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
70 Brown St, Providence, RI 02906, USASiwar Masannat will be taking part in Writers on Writing, a series of literary readings hosted by Literary Arts. Siwar Masannat is a Jordanian writer and the author of two books of poetry, cue (Georgia Review Books/University of Georgia Press, 2024) and 50 Water Dreams (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2015). Masannat works as Assistant Director of the African Poetry Book Fund.
For information visit https://events.brown.edu/literary-arts/event/303392-siwar-masannat
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Lunch & Learn with Gene Kansas - Georgia Archives
February 14, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Rd, Morrow, GA 30260, USA
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From Empire to Revolution - Speaking Engagement
February 15, 2025
Greg Brooking will speak about his new book From Empire to Revolution at the Piedmont Driving Club in Midtown Atlanta (for the First Families of Georgia Society). Event will also include book signings/sales.
Contact for the First Families of Georgia is: Christy Morris ([email protected]).
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Panel Discussion: Gene Kansas
February 19, 2025 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm
McElreath Hall, 130 W Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA, 30305, United StatesOnce the wealthiest Black neighborhood in the world, the Sweet Auburn Historic District in Atlanta, Georgia, now occupies a distinct place, both historically and geographically. It is at once the globally significant birthplace of the civil rights movement; and it also lays in the wake of social, commercial, and urban challenges that have left some of its most important spaces and places in a state of peril―and even in danger of demolition―as Atlanta grows in, around, and over it.