Explore the Haitian folk tale ”The Magic Orange Tree” with storyteller Rachael Harrington and Leadlights Ensemble for an afternoon of music and stories on the sidewalk outside of Word Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria. Free copies of the book will be available.
Word Up welcomes Publisher's Weekly Director of Publishing Joshua Jelly-Schapiro to discuss his new book Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made (Significations), a vibrant, revealing portrait of the "King of Calypso," whose extraordinary performing career and activism helped remake America through the civil rights era and beyond. In this sparkling new biography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro brings Belafonte’s personality and music vibrantly to life, following him from rags to riches and from Harlem to Jamaica to the March on Washington.
Book Presentation with Jonathan Goldman. Join the Hispanic Society for a conversation with Jonathan Goldman on the Puerto Rican experience in 1920s New York. In Hidden Histories of Jazz Age: New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange, Jonathan Goldman offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City. Jonathan Ezra Goldman’s whirlwind tour of early 1920s New York City visits an all-female police platoon, a Black amusement park shut down before it opened, an Arabic literary salon, socialist Puerto Rican cigar factories, Chinatown funerals, lesbian cafes, overcrowded jails, toxic dumps, and Ku Klux Klan recruitment offices.
