2025 Great Reads from Great Places: Book Club

Library : Fitchburg Public Library

Location : Program Room Fitchburg Public Library Temporary Location, 166 Boulder Drive, Suite 108, Fitchburg, MA, 01420

Start : Monday 22nd of September 2025 4:00 PM

End : Monday 22nd of September 2025 5:00 PM

Description :

Join us on August 12th and August 25th at the Fitchburg Public Library for a discussion series on the stunningly illustrated graphic-novel Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, adapted and illustrated by Joel Christian Gill. Racism has persisted throughout history—but so have antiracist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep research and a gripping narrative that illuminates the lives of five key American figures, preeminent historian Ibram X. Kendi—in collaboration with award-winning historian and comic artist Joel Christian Gill—reveals how understanding and improving the world cannot happen without identifying and facing the racist forces that shape it. The graphic-novel adaptation of Dr. Kendi’s groundbreaking Stamped from the Beginning explores, with vivid clarity and dimensionality, the living history of America, and how we can learn from the past to work toward a more equitable, antiracist future. Participants will be provided with a free copy of the graphic novel and will have the opportunity to ask the graphic novelist questions in a virtual Q&A session in September! This discussion series is part of the 2025 MA Great Reads program, sponsored by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Register below. The discussion will take place on these dates: Tuesday, August 12th at 4:00 pm, and/or Monday, August 25th at 2:30 pm Monday, September 22nd at 4:00 pm Thursday, September 25th at 6:00 pm: Q&A with the illustrator, Joel Christian Gill fitchburgpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/2025-great-reads-from-great-places-book-club/