Guided Search: Civil Rights, Africa

When Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone’s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that “everyone in the world should read” (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called “arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature,” comes to the Council to discuss his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone.

Doctors Without Borders is coming to Philadelphia for a FREE panel discussion!

Join the African American Museum in Philadelphia for a celebration and commemoration of African American freedom, looking at where we've come from and what work remains to be done! Live music from Rafiya, storytelling with the acclaimed Denise Valentine, hands-on crafts with artist Betty Leacraft, and more! This event is from noon to 4pm.

The Free Library of Philadelphia is pleased to announce an Author Events series with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  Professor Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous works of criticism, including The Signifying Monkey, winner of the American Book Award. Tickets are $15 General Admission, $7 Students and can be purchased at this link. Tickets purchased for the event originally scheduled in February will be honored here.