UMBC Community Read: The Black Butterfly by Lawrence Brown
Give us your ideas for events and win a free copy!
In The Black Butterfly―a
reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population
spreads out like a butterfly's wings on both sides of the coveted strip
of real estate running down the center of the city―Lawrence T. Brown
reveals that ongoing historical trauma caused by a combination of
policies, practices, systems, and budgets is at the root of uprisings
and crises in hypersegregated cities around the country.
How would you like to engage with the Community Read this AY '23-'24? Fill out our
Google form or by using the QR Code on the attached flyer for a chance to win some free copies of the book!
More information on Community Read events coming soon!
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Call Us What We Carry
Use the Community Read 2022-23 book selection in your class
Call Us What We Carry (aka The Hill We Climb and Other Poems) by Amanda Gorman has been selected for the community read book for the school year 2022-23.
Stay tuned, we will have events featuring this book during the school year. Do you have an idea for an event? Share your idea(s)
here.
Amanda Gorman is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015.
In 2021, she delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden.
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