In the midst of a global pandemic and an ongoing social movement, it’s easy to overlook that it’s still an election year. This year life has looked a little different than years prior, and the elections will be no different. With the constant flow of information we’ve all received over the past months, it’s hard…
Antiracism Resources
Black Lives Matter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's killer.
Recent events, including the death of George Floyd during an at
Here she comes: Mrs. America
Mrs. America is a new miniseries that explores the efforts to ratify, and to defeat, the Equal Rights Amendment. St. Louis Public Library has many books by and about the protagonists in that battle and this blog post will point viewers toward some contemporaneous writings.
Women in the Stacks at SLPL Central
For Women's History Month we pulled some books on women from a retired call number (396) in the Stacks at SLPL's Central Library.
By the Book – help yourself with some self-help
Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer host the "By the Book" podcast in which they live by and critique self-help books. Embedded list includes links to titles available electronically via slpl.org.
Getting to the Polls
One in six people eligible to vote in America have a disability and more than 1/3rd of voters with disabilities reported difficulty voting at a polling place. What are voting rights advocates doing to promote civic duties among disabled Americans?
Voter Suppression: Then & Now
This month at St. Louis Public Library and across the country, we celebrate Black History Month and its 2020 theme, African Americans and the Vote.
Noname in the Library
Last summer the rapper Noname created a book club with the tagline "reading material for the homies." The book club was formed as "an online/irl community dedic
Voter Registration Drive at your Public Library
National Voter Registration Day 2019
WHO?
Any eligible voter, almost eligible voter (you can register at 17 1/2, but have to be 18 in order to vote), register
1619
In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. No aspect of the country that would be…
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