Discuss the issues of medical ethics, civil rights, and contribution to science surrounding Henrietta Lacks. Now virtually immortal, her cells have been cultured and have rendered valuable medical research for decades. Read the book, listen to a recording, or watch the TV program then participate in this moderated online discussion.
The Lacks family has enthralled audiences across the country by talking about their mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Henrietta Lacks, and her transcendentally important contributions to science. The internatonal success of Rebecca Skloots New York Times bestseller, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has let people keenly interested in the Lacks family and Henriettas legacy. Henrietta […]
Storytime gets children ready to learn through reading, writing, talking, singing, and playing. Enjoy a reading books and playing with the librarian. The Undefeated is a beautiful picture book written by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson. It is the winner of the 2020 Caldecott Award. It creates a narrative of the history of people […]
Mandela with a raised fist, moments after his release from prison (after 27 years) on February 11, 1990.Photograph by Graeme Williams Explore Mandela: Struggle for Freedom, a rich sensory experience of imagery, soundscape, digital media and objects, explores the earthshaking fight for justice and human dignity in South Africa – and its relevance to issues of […]
Author and historian Dr. Dwight Watson will discuss his book, Race and the Houston Police Department 1930-1990. In Houston, as in the rest of the American South up until the 1950s, the police force reflected and enforced the segregation of the larger society. When the nation began to change in the 1950s and 1960s, this […]
In celebration of Black History Month, Holocaust Museum Houston will host a one-night screening of the highly acclaimed 2016 documentary film, “13th.” Synopsis: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African Americans. The title of Ava DuVernay’s […]
A farmer in Poland (now Ukraine) hid two little girls and their mothers in their barn and in a rat-infested hole for twenty-eight months. A Catholic priest in Serbia welcomed two Sephardic sisters into his orphanage to save their lives. A Muslim woman hid her Jewish neighbor in Sarajevo. This webinar will give you the […]
n observance of Black History Month, the Boniuk Library is organizing a book discussion session about Destined to Witness by Hans Massoquoi. The child of an African diplomat and a German nurse, Massoquoi grew up in Nazi Germany. Swayed by the charisma of Hitler and national pride young Hans learns what it means to be […]
A farmer in Poland (now Ukraine) hid two little girls and their mothers in their barn and in a rat-infested hole for twenty-eight months. A Catholic priest in Serbia welcomed two Sephardic sisters into his orphanage to save their lives. A Muslim woman hid her Jewish neighbor in Sarajevo. This webinar will give you the […]
The Hungarian Holocaust constitutes a very special chapter of the Holocaust. Although it took place very close to the end of World War II, with deportations starting in May 1944, the Nazi industrial killing machine was by then so sophisticated that some 565,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered by the end of 1944. The speaker's parents […]
