Category: Wayland Reads

View a video of this program. Weds, Sept 28, 7:00 PM – Gish Jen’s latest collection of stories, Thank You, Mr. Nixon, illuminates the experiences of multiple generations of people in the Chinese diaspora since the opening up of China in the 1970s. Dr. Karen Teoh will give...

Thursday, April 22, 7:00 PM – Are we confronting injustice? Or tearing down history? The Boston Arts Commission recently removed The Emancipation Memorial from Park Square after intense pressure from the public. In Richmond, VA, the statue of Robert E. Lee has become a...

Video of this program Sunday, April 11, 3:00 PM – Join author Alex Zamalin to hear from his latest work, the first history of racial injustice to examine how civility and white supremacy are linked, and a call for citizens who care about social...

Watch a VIDEO of this program here. Sunday, March 21, 2 pm – Slavery in New England is often overlooked because the general thought is that it was confined to the South.  Jane Sciacca will dispel this myth by examining slavery and enslaved people...

Thanks to the generosity of our volunteer facilitators, we have six opportunities to discuss our Wayland Reads selection, How to Be an Antiracist, in late March and early April. Please join us for one or for many! Click on the session to register for...

Monday, Feb 22, 7pm – Join Dr. Brenna Greer for a virtual tour of the significant images, protest signs, and social media posts that have come out of the civil rights movement and Black Lives Matter movement. Since World War II, African Americans’ fight...

With the murder of George Floyd in May, the country has been galvanized into confronting its history and ongoing issues of racism and social justice—with Wayland being no exception.  In this spirit, the Wayland Free Public Library has made these issues the centerpiece of...