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FOR ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I’ve said many times, “We’re better than this…” I said it on the streets of my home, Baltimore, a city on the verge of explosion over police treatment of citizens. I said it in Congress when microphones were shut down, barring free speech… I will continue to say it. Because we must call out what is wrong, and call on our better selves to make things right. This is a fight for the future of our democracy. — Rep. Elijah Cummings

Join Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings—Elijah’s widow—and We’re Better Than This co-author James Dale for an online conversation on the life and work of the late Congressman.

This event is presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. See link below for details.

DR. MAYA ROCKEYMOORE CUMMINGS and JAMES DALE IN CONVERSATION

ALOUD—Library Foundation of Los Angeles

Tuesday, February 9.

3 pm on the West Coast; 6 pm East Coast.

From top: Elijah Cummings (center) in 1988, courtesy and © Afro Newspaper /Gado / Getty Images; Elijah Cummings, We’re Better Than This, cover image courtesy and © HarperCollins; Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, courtesy of Dr. Cummings; Elijah Cummings (left).

ABDELLAH TAÏA IN CONVERSATION

Abdellah Taïa joins West Hollywood City Poet Steven Reigns for a discussion about Taïa’s novel Infidels. Published in 2016 by Seven Stories Press, Infidels is the story of Jallal, a young gay Muslim and son of a prostitute witch doctor. This ALOUD program at the Central Library is presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.

Taïa was born in Morocco in 1973 and lives in Paris, and his books include L’Armée du salut/Salvation Army (2009), An Arab Melancholia (2012), and Another Morocco: Selected Stories (2017), all from Semiotext(e). Taïa’s film version of L’Armée played Outfest Los Angeles in 2014.

 

INFIDELS: A NOVEL — ABDELLAH TAÏA IN CONVERSATION WITH POET STEVEN REIGNS, Wednesday, April 12 at 7:15 pm.

TAPER AUDITORIUM, CENTRAL LIBRARY, downtown Los Angeles

 

lfla.org/event/infidels-a-novel/

sevenstories.com/pg/about

sevenstories.com/authors/387-abdellah-taia

semiotexte.com/

Abdellah Taïa, Infidels Image credit: Seven Stories Press

Abdellah Taïa, Infidels
Image credit: Seven Stories Press