California State Polytechnic University sociology professor and author Anthony Ocampo spoke Tuesday about what it means to be “brown and gay in the USA”. He addressed attendees from Northwestern, Northeastern Illinois University and Oakton College as part of programming for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. A son of Filipino immigrants, Ocampo said his.
Evanston Public Library’s Robert Crown Branch will host an LGBTQ+ book swap and giveaway Saturday afternoon as part of a larger effort to reach the city’s queer community. “It’s important because they’re part of the Evanston community,” Robert Crown branch assistant Kellye Fleming said. “I personally think we should be reaching everyone, no matter what.
Signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in July, the Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History Act made Illinois the first state to mandate Asian American history be taught in public schools. Following the passage of the bill, the Kitchen Table Stories Project teamed up with the Evanston History Center to create an archive of Asian, South.
In the past few months, Texas State Representative Matt Krause put over 800 books on a watch list, an Oklahoma state senator filed a bill to possibly prohibit 51 books from schools and a school board in Tennessee banned the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocast memoir, “Maus.” For more than a century, books have been the target.
Evanston residents can celebrate National Poetry Month this April with a variety of readings and workshops hosted by the city’s literary community. Evanston Public Library plans to host a poetry workshop April 23 at the Robert Crown Branch Library, a group discussion of two inaugural poems April 25 at the Main Library and a children’s.