Valerie Smith, president of Swarthmore College, giving a keynote lecture on Toni Morrison’s Beloved, the subject of the library’s 2021 Big Read event.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Generously supported by the Friends of the Ferguson Library and co-sponsored by Stamford Stands Against Racism and UCONN-Stamford.
This talk took place on October 7 2021 and was live-streamed over Zoom.
Valerie Smith’s book: Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination
MUSIC
“Speed Energy” by Winnie the Moog
Moore and Gardner, “Chinese Blues” (George Gerswhin piano roll), 1916