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SUMMARY:MOVEMENTS: In Conversation with Rashad Robinson
DESCRIPTION:This program is free & open to the public\, but registration is 
 required.\n\nRashad Robinson has spent more than twenty years at the 
 highest levels of two of the defining movements of our time: the fight for 
 LGBTQ rights and the fight for racial justice. He led Color of Change for 
 nearly fourteen years\, growing it from a startup into a national force\, 
 and before that ran programs at GLAAD during the fights over marriage 
 equality and media representation.\n\nMuch of that work has turned on a 
 question public libraries know intimately: Who decides which stories get 
 told\, and which ones quietly disappear?\n\nRobinson has spent his career 
 on the machinery behind that decision: the studios\, the platforms\, the 
 algorithms\, the boardrooms. The same question drives the record wave of 
 book challenges now moving through schools and libraries across the 
 country\, where the titles pulled from shelves are overwhelmingly by and 
 about Black\, brown\, and LGBTQ people. Banned Books Week asks what happens 
 when a story is removed\, and Robinson's work asks the harder follow-up: 
 Who had the power to remove it\, and what would it take to take that power 
 back?\n\nRobinson’s new book\, From Presence to Power: How to Take On the 
 Fights That Matter–and Win (One World / Penguin Random House)\, is a 
 national bestseller built on a hard distinction: Being seen is not the same 
 as having leverage.\n\nThis program is sponsored by the Library Foundation 
 of Buffalo & Erie County.\n\nA paid VIP reception follows at Duende at Silo 
 City. For details & to purchase tickets\, click here.
LOCATION:Central Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Melissa Burgess":MAILTO:burgessm@buffalolib.org
CATEGORIES:Banned Books/Freedom to Read, Special Event
CONTACT;CN="Melissa Burgess":MAILTO:burgessm@buffalolib.org
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