National Book Award finalist Kekla Magoon will discuss her award-winning nonfiction book, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People. The Vermont author will also discuss the importance of reading as a tool for social change, and our individual and collective power to transform our communities.

Kekla Magoon is the author of many novels and nonfiction books for young readers, including The Season of Styx Malone, The Rock and the River, How It Went Down, and Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People. She has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the John Steptoe New Talent Award, four Coretta Scott King Honors, the Walter Award Honor, an NAACP Image Award, and been a finalist for the National Book Award.

This event is part of Vermont Humanities 2022-23 season of First Wednesdays lectures. The Brattleboro lecture series is funded through the generous support of the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library. See the full series program at: https://www.vermonthumanities.org/programs/attend/first-wednesdays/library-schedules/first-w[...]ro/.
For more information visit www.brookslibraryvt.org or call (802) 254-5290.

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