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Author Visit and Book Discussion- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration is no longer available for this event.
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We’re happy to announce that the Athol Public Library is a Great Reads MA 2025 participating partner! This year’s featured book is Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, adapted and illustrated by Joel Christian Gill. Ask us about how you can participate and join the conversation!”
This stunningly illustrated graphic-novel adaptation explores, with vivid clarity and dimensionality, the living history of America, and how we can learn from the past to work toward a more equitable future.
Join us on Thursday, September 11 at 5:00 (chapters 1 and 2) and/or Tuesday September 16 at 5:00 (chapters 3 - 5) for a discussion series on the stunningly illustrated graphic-novel Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, adapted and illustrated by Joel Christian Gill. Participants in the book discussion will then get to attend a virtual author visit on September 25 at 6:00.
Racism has persisted throughout history—but so have antiracist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep research and a gripping narrative that illuminates the lives of five key American figures, preeminent historian Ibram X. Kendi—in collaboration with award-winning historian and comic artist Joel Christian Gill—reveals how understanding and improving the world cannot happen without identifying and facing the racist forces that shape it. The graphic-novel adaptation of Dr. Kendi’s groundbreaking Stamped from the Beginning explores, with vivid clarity and dimensionality, the living history of America, and how we can learn from the past to work toward a more equitable, antiracist future.
Participants will be provided with a free copy of the graphic novel and will have the opportunity to ask the graphic novelist questions in a virtual Q&A session in September! This discussion series is part of the 2025 MA Great Reads program, sponsored by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
Each year Massachusetts selects a title to share with the commonwealth as part of the “Great Reads from Great Places” program.
Free and Open to the Public.
For ages 12 through adult.
Registration required. Please see Emily or Robin S. for your copy of the book and to sign up.