White Plains Library Opens Registration For Ibram X. Kendi Visit

Press release from the White Plains Public Library:

September 30 2020

By Nancy Rubini, Foundation Director

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The White Plains Library Foundation, in partnership with the Thomas H. Slater Center and with the support of other sponsors, is presenting a special virtual event with the award-winning author, historian, and thought-leader, Ibram X. Kendi on October 28, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. This program will be the highlight of the Library’s city-wide reading initiative, One Book, One White Plains.

In the meantime, mark your fall calendars and look into our digital and physical copies of the two books we'll be reading: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (available in print and as a digital audiobook and eBook on OverDrive and Libby) and, for young adult readers (and all ages), Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (available in regular print, large print, and CD audiobook from our physical collection and as a digital audiobook and eBook from OverDrive and Libby) by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi.

This event is sponsored by the White Plains Library Foundation and the Thomas H. Slater Center in partnership with: The Allstate Foundation, Friends of the White Plains Youth Bureau, NewYork Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, White Plains Hospital, White Plains Teacher Association, Rotary Club of White Plains, Rabbi Shira Milgrom, African American Men of Westchester, and the White Plains Housing Authority.

This press release was produced by the White Plains Public Library. The views expressed are the author's own.