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An Evening With Lawrence Lanahan
October 15, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Free[Please note that the day for this event has been corrected to Tuesday, Oct.15th.]
Author Lawrence Lanahan discusses The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide, a narrative chronicle of segregation and inequality in Freddie Gray’s Baltimore. In an era when politics are pushing Americans apart, Lawrence offers a sobering and thought-provoking reflection on how America might dismantle structural racism and white supremacy.
OCTOBER 15, 2019 | 6:30PM
Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 294
1825 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97201
FREE ADMISSION
The Lines Between Us is a riveting narrative that compels reflection on America’s entrenched inequality—and on where the rubber meets the road not in the abstract, but in our own backyards. Taking readers from church sermons to community meetings to public hearings to protests to the Supreme Court to the death of Freddie Gray, Lanahan deftly exposes the intricacy of Baltimore’s hypersegregation through the stories of ordinary people living it, shaping it, and fighting it, day in and day out. Book available from The New Press.
Lawrence Lanahan is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has appeared on Colorlines, NPR’s Morning Edition, and Al-Jazeera America, among other outlets. His fifty-episode series for Baltimore’s public radio station WYPR, also called The Lines Between Us, won Columbia University’s duPont Award. A recipient of the Carey Institute’s Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, Lanahan grew up in the Baltimore region and has lived for many years in the city of Baltimore, where he has reported on the dynamics of segregation and racial inequality for more than a decade.