The Auburn Avenue Research Library in collaboration with The Baton Foundation hosts Dr. Sasha Turner, Associate Professor of History at Quinnipiac University, discussing her latest publication, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Child-rearing, and Slavery in Jamaica. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica.

Contested Bodies- Dr. Sasha Turner

The Auburn Avenue Research Library hosts Gary Pomerantz, a former journalist for the AJC and The Washington Post who now lives in San Francisco and lectures at Stanford University, discussing the book Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, originally published in 1996. Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn documents the history of Atlanta — from Civil War through Civil Rights, and leading up to the city’s hosting of the 1996 Summer Olympics — through two prominent families: the Ivan Allens, and John Wesley Dobbs and his progeny.

Where Peachtree Meets Auburn

The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, in collaboration with the Southern Center for Human Rights, host Truth and Justice: A Conversation with the Central Park 5. This community dialogue will explore the contemporary relevance of the 1989 miscarriage of justice that engulfed Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise.

Truth and Justice

Truth And Justice: The Central Park Five- Moderated by Rose Scott

The Auburn Avenue Research Library is the first public library in the Southeast to offer specialized reference and archival collections dedicated to the study and research of African American culture and history and of the African diaspora.