October 2020 News
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My Life in 100 Objects

Connecting image, place, and prose, Margaret Randall's new, illustrated memoir takes readers across the globe to share the experiences that shaped her as an artist, poet, and activist.

"Even as they stretch all the way back to her childhood in the ’40s, or her young adulthood in the ’60s, her stories have never been more of the moment: who gets to come to this country, who gets to love whom, and every other hard-won freedom still at stake today." —Garrett Caples, Editor, City Lights Spotlight
Upcoming Virtual Events
Tune in to hear Margaret Randall read from My Life in 100 Objects.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET
Sunday, October 4, 2020
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET
Sunday, October 11, 2020
7:00 PM PT
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
4:00 PM ET

Register for a panel discussion followed by a public conversation between Gioconda Belli and Margaret Randall titled "Two Poets, Two Revolutionaries, Two Friends."
Main Street by Mindy Fullilove

In her latest book, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove uncovers the ways city centers bring communities together.

"Mindy's perspective on the psychology of place helps us understand a different story, a story of serial forced displacements that have had devastating effects on inner-city communities, and, by extension, to all peoples and all places." —Ron Shiffman, Professor, Pratt Institute Graduate School of Architecture
Find more of Mindy Fullilove's thoughts on Main Streets in her article, "Main Streets," published in A Public Space or read an excerpt from Main Street in Next City: "Are You Planning to Stay?"
Last month, the University of Orange popular education center launched Main Street virtually. Learn more about the event and the book on Mindy Fullilove's blog and foreword author Andy Merrifield's blog.

Register for the Main Street Reading Group, hosted by the University of Orange.

Order a signed copy of Main Street from WORDS bookstore!
Carol Hsiung, cover artist of Main Street, provided a visual record of the launch.
Mindy Fullilove Events

Listen to Mindy Fullilove describe how main streets connect to create a neural network not unlike a human brain and why each node, or main street, must be alive and connected to foster mental health across communities. 
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
7 PM ET

Mindy Fullilove will discuss Main Street, including how architects and planners can and must play a role in creating functional main streets.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
6 PM ET

Mindy Fullilove will speak alongside Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman, scholar Roberta Gratz, and Susan Spehar to discuss the legacy of iconic urban activist Jane Jacobs. The plaque will commemorate Jane Jacobs's contributions to Greenwich Village. 
For more on Jane Jacobs and the places she called home, look for the forthcoming book Jane Jacobs's First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania by Glenna Lang, coming in 2021.
Virtual Panel with Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Wed., October 14, 2020
8:30 – 9:30 PM ET

Joined by Dr. Ruth Gerson and Dr. Christin Drake, Mindy Fullilove will discuss the challenges of underrepresented minority women in medicine and the role of allies.
Fri., October 23, 2020
1 – 3 PM ET

Mindy Fullilove will provide a speech at this event, which focuses on necessary movements, beyond drug policy reform, that will reduce harm to and oppression of Black communities.
Fri., October 23, 2020
3 – 4 PM ET

Mindy Fullilove will speak as part of the virtual conference discussing how to move past the historical disinvestment in Black, Brown, and low-income communities using an intersectional approach.
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
2 pm – 3 pm ET

Listen to Mindy Fullilove discuss Main Street on KERA's Think, broadcast on NPR Dallas. Find out where to listen live.
Review of Such a Pretty Girl Audio Edition
"[Nadina] LaSpina's writing about disability culture is especially poignant, and [Jennifer Jill] Araya's narration beautifully captures her burgeoning sense of disability pride." —AudioFile Magazine

Read the full review of Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride.

Waging Peace in Vietnam Oral History Panel
October 21 – 24, 2020

The Waging Peace in Vietnam Education Fund will bring their exhibit and offer a workshop at the annual meeting of the Oral History Association in Baltimore. This year’s theme is “The Quest for Democracy: One Hundred Years of Struggle.”

See the list of panelists and find out where the exhibit is going next on the Waging Peace in Vietnam website.
Waging Peace in Vietnam: The U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War sheds light on how the GI protest movement unfolded and confronts the legacies of war, raising questions that connect to current events.
2020 Judith Tannenbaum Fellowship
Judith Tannenbaum, coauthor with Spoon Jackson of By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives, passed away last December. However, her legacy lives on through the Judith Tannenbaum Teaching Artist Fellowship, created by Chapter 510 and the Department of Make Believe.

Award-winning writer and founder of the Midnight Stories Series, Tiffany Golden received the first fellowship. She has taught fiction at Chapter 510 for the past three years.
To support more teaching artists, donate to the Judith Tannenbaum Fellowship.
Interview with Spoon Jackson
LA Review of Books published an interview with Spoon Jackson, coauthor with Judith Tannenbaum of By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives. Spoon Jackson discusses concerns with prison, isolation, police brutality, and the art that emerges.

To learn more about Spoon Jackson, visit his new website or watch the documentary film Spoon.
More Updates
Interview of New Village Press Author on New Hulu Series

Cartoonist and illustrator of the Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts Keith Knight developed and co-produced the new Hulu series Woke, which is based on his life experiences.

Read the interview of Keith Knight in The Washington Post.
Chellis Glendinning's In the Company of Rebels: A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers is a timely reminder of the power of activists to shape the world. We will leave you with the epigraph from the preface, a quote from a letter political activist Richard Grossman wrote Chellis Glendinning in 2011:
"Be strong, be true, be historic."