EventsPrinters Row Lit Fest Voices For Justice: Staged Reading and Conversation with Natalie Moore: "The Billboard"

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Printers Row Lit Fest Voices For Justice: Staged Reading and Conversation with Natalie Moore: "The Billboard"

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Printers Row Lit Fest

Description

Join CPL at Printers Row Lit Fest for the next event in our Voices For Justice speaker series, featuring a conversation with Natalie Moore and staged reading of scenes from her new play, The Billboard

"The Billboard" is about a fictional Black women’s clinic in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood on the South Side and its fight with a local gadfly running for City Council who puts up a provocative billboard: “Abortion is genocide. The most dangerous place for a Black child is his mother’s womb,” spurring on the clinic to fight back with their own provocative sign: “Black women take care of their families by taking care of themselves. Abortion is self-care. #Trust Black Women.”

Natalie Y. Moore is an award winning Chicago-based author and journalist. Her enterprise reporting has tackled race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Her last book The South Side won the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction. She is a 2021 USA Fellow. The Pulitzer Center named her a 2020 Richard C. Longworth Media Fellow for international reporting. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation and Deconstructing Tyrone.

Natalie will be joined in conversation by Kathy Hey. 

How to Attend:

Printers Row Lit Fest is located on historic Printers Row, on and around the area of Dearborn Street, from Polk Street to Ida B. Wells Drive (formerly Congress Parkway) in Chicago. A map of festival activities and locations is available at the Printers Row Lit Fest website

Accessibility
Need sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Please call (312) 747-8184 or email access@chipublib.org to request accommodations. Requests must be made at least 14 business days before the event.

Suitable for:
Adults: 18 and up
Type:
Author Events
Language:
English

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