BALTIMORE – The Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Open Society Institute-Baltimore are proud to welcome journalist Gwen Ifill and noted civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn A. Ifill to a frank discussion, Talking About Race Now: How to Build Success Without Forgetting the Struggle .
Central Library
Thursday, June 4, 7 pm
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore
, Maryland 21201
This free, open-to-the-public discussion is the first in a new lecture series called How We Talk About Race. It will be addressing how we talk (or do not talk) about race from different perspectives, and why it is important to discuss the topic openly and intelligently.
“Since the election of the country’s first African-American President, it’s never been more important to engage in a conversation about race,” said Carla D. Hayden, Chief Executive Officer of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. “In a city that’s predominantly African-American and where race played a major role in the city’s history, we are looking forward to these lectures that will tackle race’s influence from the classroom to the boardroom.”
Gwen Ifill is moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. She has covered six presidential campaigns and also moderated the vice-presidential debates during the presidential elections in 2004 and 2008. Ifill recently released the book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama .
Sherrilyn Ifill is a law professor at The University of Maryland School of Law and author of the book, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century . She serves on the board of both the Enoch Pratt Free Library and OSI-Baltimore.
For more information on the How We Talk About Race lecture series, visit our website at www.prattlibrary.org. Also look for the Pratt Library on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
Remember at the Enoch Pratt Free Library: “ Your journey starts here.”
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