Save the dates for our 2025 events!
Author Talk: Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at 6:30pm at Minneapolis Central Library
Our 2025 season book club title and program details will be announced on Saturday, February 1.
Upcoming Library Programs
Writer to Writer: Mary Moore Easter and Christopher P. Lehman
Thursday, January 16, 6:30-8pm
Online event
Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between BIPOC writers. Join us for a fascinating conversation with poet Mary Moore Easter and scholar Christopher P. Lehman as they discuss their different approaches to writing about the incredible emancipation of Eliza Winston, an enslaved woman from Mississippi who was freed by her owners while serving them on a vacation in Minnesota in 1860. Collaborator: More Than a Single Story. This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Register here.
Talk of the Stacks with Lee Hawkins
Thursday, January 30, 6:30-7:30pm
Online event
Join Friends of the Hennepin County Library for an evening online with Pulitzer Prize finalist and investigating reporter, Lee Hawkins, as he discusses his debut memoir, “I Am Nobody’s Slave,” with radio and podcast host Lissa Jones. Learn more and register here.
About the Mary Ann Key Book Club
The book club was inspired by a Star Tribune column written by Myron Medcalf – the great-great-great-grandson of Mary Ann Key.
“I’m honored to partner with Hennepin County Library to launch the Mary Ann Key Book Club, named after the matriarch of my family, who was enslaved in Georgia in the 1850s. Purchased for $1,000 at the age of 14, Mary Ann Key persevered. Her body was in bondage, but slavery never stole the freedom of her heart, mind and soul. This book club is about focusing on the truths of the past, our challenges in the present and the possibilities of the future…”
– Myron Medcalf
This program is supported by Friends of the Hennepin County Library. Their generous financial support is helping to provide greater access to print and eBook copies of the featured books. Media partner: Star Tribune.
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