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What have you been up to this week?

I’ve been getting my kids ready for school. I’m on leave this semester, and have been preparing for the transition back to my sons’ school years. That’s what it’s been all about.

Right, Solomon and Simon?

Yes. Solomon will be a senior in high school, and Simon will be a junior.

I read The Light of the World, and I feel like I already know them a little.

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Dialogue Keynote | Elizabeth Alexander on The Trayvon Generation

About the Event

This event is a collaboration between the MCA and the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Join us for a conversation with one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander. 

In her latest book The Trayvon Generation, Alexander tenderly writes about the ung people whose worldview has been indelibly shaped by persistent and visible racially motivated violence and asserts the unresolved problem of the color line at the center of the American experience. Join Alexander for a wide-ranging discussion about the power of art and culture to understand and confront issues of race, class, and injustice, and the ways in which Black artists, scholars, and activists have always revealed the “problem, the hope, and the possibility of America.” Moderated by Romi Crawford, Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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