LCP in the News

Juneteenth Freedom Seminar: How to Be an Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi

July 1, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Ibram Kendi at 2019 Juneteenth

LCP in the News: Author Ibram Kendi chimes in on reparations, touts new book

June 28, 2019/by Clare Lowry

My time at the Library Company of Philadelphia

June 28, 2019/by Clare Lowry

Through the Eyes of Black Women: Intersectionality, Sexual Violence, and Reproductive Rights

June 26, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Jasmine Smith, LCP African American history subject specialist, holds a rare friendship album.

LCP in the News: Exhibit Shines New Light on Black People in Early America

June 12, 2019/by Ann McShane
Sarah Mapps Douglass, A Token of Love from Me to Thee from the Amy Matilda Cassey Friendship Album (circa 1836). Watercolor and gouache.

LCP in the News: New Philly Exhibit Plays Homage to Black Past, Looks to Future

June 12, 2019/by Ann McShane
Jasmine Smith, LCP African American history subject specialist, holds a rare trading card type photo of abolitionist speaker Sojourner Truth.

LCP in the News: A new exhibit at LCP focuses on ‘ordinary creativity’ of African Americans in early Philadelphia

June 12, 2019/by Ann McShane

LCP in the News: How Black Americans portrayed themselves

June 12, 2019/by Clare Lowry
A photo of an unidentified young African American woman is deeply creased as if it were folded and carried around by someone who valued it. It is part of an exhibit at the Library Company of Philadelphia called "Negro Pasts and Afro-futures." (Emma Lee/WHYY)

LCP in the News: Historic African American visions of a life of freedom and elegance

May 28, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Slave Ship Diagram from the Library Company Collections

LCP in the News: New exhibition unveils untold story of free Black people in 1800s

May 28, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Image from KYW Newsradio

LCP in the News: Positively Philadelphia: New exhibit showcases rare African American art, culture

May 22, 2019/by Clare Lowry
Pew Research Trip 2018

The Library Company of Philadelphia Receives Project Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

September 28, 2018/by Clare Lowry
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