Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature -- February 16, 2022
Channel: Mechanics' Institute
Date: 18/02/2022

Cosponsored by the Museum of the African Diaspora

In an elegant blending of memoir and close readings of a wide range of works, including novels, poems, speeches, music, and art, Griffin makes connections across genres, throughout the centuries, expanding the readers experience of the words to touch on themes that are central to the human experience: mercy and justice, rage and democracy,love and death, grief and beauty. Through Griffin’s analysis, readers are struck by this immense gift and grace of African American literature which finds beauty in resistance and insists on creation in the face of annihilation.

Programming in "Civil Rights, Artistic Diversity, Historical Reckoning: Exploring the Film, Literature, and Lives of Marginalized Communities" has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.