Multnomah County Library's Everybody Reads program brings Black History 101 Mobile Museum to libraries * Oregon ArtsWatch

"In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Supreme Court includes, for the first time, a Black woman. In Multnomah County's Midland Library last week, visitors viewed a pair of shackles, a whip, and a Ku Klux Klan hood. The jarring juxtaposition kicked off Multnomah County Library's annual communitywide Everybody Reads program, which this year takes up Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's memoir, ."

"At Midland, visitors looked at the Black History 101 Mobile Museum display in silence. The traveling museum, which traces Black history from slavery to the present, makes another Portland stop this week, from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16, at the North Portland Library, with a presentation by its founder, Khalid el-Hakim, at 4 p.m. It is a stunning testament to fortitude along with the darker side of humanity. Do not look away."

"Aislyn "Ace" Brown, a librarian at the North Portland Library, is looking forward to hosting the museum and already has her ticket to hear Justice Jackson speak March 12 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, in an event sponsored by Literary Arts. Luckily, Brown got her ticket right away, because the culminating event of the countywide reading program sold out in one day."

In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Supreme Court includes, for the first time, a Black woman. Multnomah County Library opened its Everybody Reads program with a display at the Midland Library featuring shackles, a whip, and a Ku Klux Klan hood alongside recognition of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Black History 101 Mobile Museum traces Black history from slavery to the present and will appear at the North Portland Library on Jan. 16 with a presentation by founder Khalid el-Hakim. Librarian Aislyn "Ace" Brown secured a ticket to a March 12 event where Justice Jackson will speak. Free copies of Lovely One were distributed and quickly exhausted, prompting the library to order more.

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