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The Los Angeles Central Library’s free Aloud Speaker Series has a strong line-up in January and February 2008. Special presentations of note are:
Tuesday, January 15, 7 PM (Program at capacity – standby only)
Muhammad Yunus
Creating a World without Poverty
In conversation with Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate University
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But the Nobel Peace Prizewinner who invented micro-credit is doing exactly that. Yunus’s “Next Big Idea” offers a pioneering model for nothing less than a new, more humane form of capitalism.
Thursday, January 17, 7 PM
Randall Kennedy
Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
In conversation with Gregory Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times columnist
In his explosive new book, Kennedy—a Harvard law scholar—shows how current fears of “selling out” are expressed in thought and practice and clarifies the effect they have on individuals and on American society as a whole.
Wednesday, February 13, 7 PM
Dagoberto Gilb
The Flowers: A Novel
In conversation with poet and essayist Marisela Norte
From one of this country’s most original voices comes a masterful new novel about a young Mexican-American who falls in love while sweeping the decks of an apartment building named The Flowers. In the midst of exploding racial violence, he must decide what he values and what he can do about it.
Reserve a seat by visiting the Aloud RSVP site. Videos of past presentations can be found on the Channel 36 website or at KCET on Demand.
