Happy Labor Day! Enjoy the long weekend of wearing costumes, watching college students earns millions of dollars for athletic departments, and celebrating Black Gay Pride. To the hard-working people who pour drinks, drive trains, and build homes, we salute you.
Conceived with the rise of labor movements and unions in the late 19th century, this holiday celebrates the contributions workers have made to the development, security, and prosperity of the U.S. Take some time to lounge around in sweatpants on this fine Monday off; you’ve earned it!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival Presented by Emory University is proud to present 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown as this year’s Keynote speaker. In conversation with festival board president, Mathwon Howard, Brown will discuss his most recent book, The Tradition, tha...
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In their multi-award winning Crown: Ode to the Fresh Cut, the duo of Derrick Barnes and Gordon James offer the kid’s eye view of a day in the life of a barbershop. Barnes and James team up again with I Am Every Good Thing, a timely, important, and uplifting picture book that celebrates Black boys e...
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Arts Agenda,
Arts Agenda::Books,
Arts Agenda::Theater,
Arts Agenda::Dance,
Arts Agenda::Visual Arts,
Arts Agenda::Film,
Arts Agenda::Spoken Word,
Community::Public Agenda,
Food and Drink,
Community,
Community::Benefits,
Community::Family,
Community::Festivals/Events,
Community::Lectures,
Community::Sports and Health,
Music,
Community::Volunteers,
Community::Support Groups,
Nightlife,
Community::Pets,
Free Events
The 6th Annual Veggie Connection Event!
Plant Based Food, Vendors, Speakers, Plant Based Men's Panel (part 3), Live Music, Raffle, Dance Party, and More!
Guest Speaker MASTA ACE
In 2000 an event helped redirect MASTA ACE's personal life. That year, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), thou...
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Join Out on Film and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival presented by Emory for an interview with director Daniel Karslake, after a screening of the 2019 documentary For They Know Not What They Do at 4:00PM. The documentary examines the backlash against recent gains in LGBTQ+ righ...
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Practical talks, guided meditation and discussion. Drop in for one class, or attend the whole series. No experience necessary. Everyone is welcome!
SUNDAY Classes are now available to be viewed for 48 hours after the class is held. If you can't make Sunday at 11:00AM but stil...
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Jelani M Favors and Brandon K. Winford will be honored for their books, Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism and John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights.
Toni Tipton-Martin, the first African-American food editor of a daily American newspaper, joins us as the culinary Cooknote. Tipton-Martin is the author of the James Beard Award-winning book The Jemima Code, a history of African-American cooking found in—and between—the lines of three centuries’ wor...
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