What's Happening at KCL
Summer Reading is Here!
Imagine Your Story this summer! Sign up for our Summer Reading Program online or at the Elgin or Camden branches of the library.
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See What We're Reading
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Check it outWell-Read Black Girl
Glory Edim, editor
An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature. Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest…
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Check it outHow to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At it’s core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard…
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Check it out Download ItStamped
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
“The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a…
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Check it outBiased
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
You don’t have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior. This has an impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. In Biased, with…
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Check it outDying of Whiteness
Jonathan M Metzl
With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life great again for people like them. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters’ very health at risk–and, in the end, threaten everyone’s well-being. Physician and sociologist…
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Check it out Download ItGood Talk
Mira Jacob
“How brown is too brown?” “Can Indians be racist?” “What does real love between really different people look like?” Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated….
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Check it out Download ItStony the Road
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil…
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Check it out Download ItJust Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice– from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those…
Kershaw County Library Updates
In the Know July 2020
Here's your monthly In the Know for July! We've got so many fun things that you can do online this month (definitely look into our Take-and-Make programs) and many workshops you can attend thanks to Downtown Camden and the KC Chamber of Commerce. We've got online challenges, educational posts,...
Learn MoreSummer Seminars are Back!
Summer Seminars are back... but they look a little different this year; they're online! Our partnership with Downtown Camden brings you the best of personal growth and education. We're getting you geared up to be the best small business owner you can be! Entrepreneur workshops, COVID...
Learn MoreDo You Know? Tuesday Trivia
This author, born in 1907 on this day, is famous for many works of science fiction, most notably Stranger in a Strange Land. Do you know his name?
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