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Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer

Experience the world premiere virtual screening of Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer. From award-winning journalist DeNeen Brown and acclaimed director Dawn Porter, the documentary film comes one hundred years after the two-day Tulsa Massacre in 1921 that led to the murder of hundreds of Black people and left thousands homeless and displaced.

Date:
Jun 13, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
Admission:

FREE

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Amanda Kloots

In Conversation with Zach Braff

In Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero, Kloots—a host for CBS’s “The Talk” and a celebrity fitness trainer—reflects on life with her husband, a Broadway star and Tony-nominee whose public battle with Covid-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world.

Date:
Jun 14, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
Admission:

Ticket (limited quantity): $10
Free Ticket + Book with Signed Bookplate: $33

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Black Life and National Memory with The Atlantic’s Inheritance Project

With Anna Deavere Smith, Clint Smith, Vann R. Newkirk II, and Gillian B. White

In a conversation for Juneteenth, contributors to The Atlantic’s “Inheritance” project about American history, Black life, and the resilience of memory share reflections on their writing to surface Black history that has been intentionally obscured, and shake our national memory.

Date:
Jun 16, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
Admission:

Free, with donations to Sixth & I appreciated.
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But You’re Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood

Book Club with Kayleen Schaefer

In But You’re Still So Young, journalist Kayleen Schaefer employs data research and hundreds of interviews to reveal how today’s thirtysomethings are living their lives in ways that upend the traditional checklist of becoming an adult in American society. Hear from Schaefer, ask her questions, and spend time in breakout groups to reflect on how the book relates to your own experiences.

Date:
Jun 22, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
Admission:

SOLD OUT.

We encourage you to order the book from Politics and Prose Bookstore.

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Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker

In Conversation with Nicolle Wallace

In I Alone Can Fix It, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the Trump presidency’s final year in unprecedented, stunning detail. Focused on Trump and the key players around him—the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members— Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other.

Date:
Jul 21, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
Admission:

Ticket (limited quantity): $6
Free Ticket + Signed Book: $35

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Authors & Talks

The Intimacy Experiment

Book Club with Rosie Danan

In The Intimacy Experiment, the rabbi of a failing synagogue joins forces with the founder of a sex-positive startup to host a buzzy seminar about modern intimacy to attract more millennials. It seems like the perfect solution—until they discover their growing attraction to each other and must put their syllabus to the test. Hear from author Rosie Danan, ask her questions, and spend time in breakout groups to reflect on the book’s themes.

Date:
Jul 25, 2021 • 5:00 pm ET
Admission:

$6

We encourage you to order the book from Politics and Prose Bookstore.

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9/11: One Day in America

Premiere Screening and Panel Discussion

In remembrance of the attacks on September 11 in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania 20 years ago this year, experience the virtual premiere of “9/11: One Day in America,” a six-part documentary series from National Geographic chronicling the events of that day through gripping first-person narratives of the first responders and survivors who were there.

Date:
Aug 19, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
Admission:

FREE

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Authors & Talks

Anderson Cooper

In Conversation with Jamie Gangel

From the CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author comes Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, an epic American story of achievement and excess, of a staggering fortune built and squandered, and of public fame and private pain experienced by his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.

Date:
Sep 22, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
Admission:

In-Person Attendance:
Ticket + Signed Book: $40

Virtual Attendance:
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $37

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Authors & Talks

Kate Bowler

In Conversation with David Brooks

In No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear,) the Duke Divinity School historian grapples with her cancer diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith and searches for some semblance of peace with her limitations in a culture that says that anything is possible.

Date:
Sep 29, 2021 • 7:00 pm ET
Admission:

In-Person Attendance:
Ticket (limited quantity): $20
Ticket + Signed Book: $36

Virtual Attendance:
Virtual Ticket: $12
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $34

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Authors & Talks

Phoebe Robinson

In Conversation with Jasmine Mans

From the author, comedian, actress, and producer comes Please Don’t Sit On My Bed in Your Outside Clothes, an insightful, timely, and hilarious collection of essays that will hit you in the heart, inspire a little bit of rage, and maybe a lot of action.

Date:
Oct 2, 2021 • 7:30 pm ET
Admission:

In-Person Attendance:
Ticket: $20
Ticket + Signed Book: $40

Virtual Attendance:
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $34

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