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Juneteenth Freedom Seminar: How to Be an Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi
All News, LCP in the Press, LCP News, PAAH![Ibram Kendi at 2019 Juneteenth](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/5d0d2e975ec7d.image_-495x400.jpg)
LCP in the News: Author Ibram Kendi chimes in on reparations, touts new book
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Through the Eyes of Black Women: Intersectionality, Sexual Violence, and Reproductive Rights
All News, LCP in the Press, LCP News, PAAH![Jasmine Smith, LCP African American history subject specialist, holds a rare friendship album.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2019-05-16-afro-futures-preview-021-495x400.jpg)
LCP in the News: Exhibit Shines New Light on Black People in Early America
All News, LCP in the Press, LCP News, PAAH![Sarah Mapps Douglass, A Token of Love from Me to Thee from the Amy Matilda Cassey Friendship Album (circa 1836). Watercolor and gouache.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/p-9764-p5-495x400.jpg)
LCP in the News: New Philly Exhibit Plays Homage to Black Past, Looks to Future
All News, LCP in the Press, LCP News, PAAH![Jasmine Smith, LCP African American history subject specialist, holds a rare trading card type photo of abolitionist speaker Sojourner Truth.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2019-05-16-afro-futures-preview-045-495x400.jpg)
LCP in the News: A new exhibit at LCP focuses on ‘ordinary creativity’ of African Americans in early Philadelphia
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![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)](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/600x340-WHYY-from-negro-pasts-to-afro-futures-495x340.png)
LCP in the News: Historic African American visions of a life of freedom and elegance
All News, LCP in the Press, LCP News, PAAH![Slave Ship Diagram from the Library Company Collections](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2019-05-16-afro-futures-preview-055-495x400.jpg)
LCP in the News: New exhibition unveils untold story of free Black people in 1800s
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LCP in the News: Positively Philadelphia: New exhibit showcases rare African American art, culture
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The Library Company of Philadelphia Receives Project Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
All News, LCP in the Press, LCP News, Redrawing History![Detail from William Russell Birch’s hand-colored engraving, “Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia, Designed & Published by W. Birch Enamel Painter 1804” at the Library Company of Philadelphia.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/inquirer-495x400.jpg)
![Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Director of the Program in African American History](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/fullsizeoutput_1bee-crop-2-495x400.jpg)
LCP in the News: The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now
All News, LCP in the Press, LCP News, PAAH![Detail from William Russell Birch’s hand-colored engraving, “Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia, Designed & Published by W. Birch Enamel Painter 1804” at the Library Company of Philadelphia.](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/inquirer-495x400.jpg)
LCP In the News: The Library Company and Free Library unpack their treasures for two must-see exhibits
All News, LCP in the Press, LCP News![Claypoole, James. The German Bleeds & Bears ye Furs Of Quaker Lords & Savage Curs ... (Philadelphia, 1764).](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/cartoon-1764-ger-66984-o-9-495x400.jpg)
LCP In the News: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces Redrawing History
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Positively Philadelphia: New Art Exhibit Looks At 18th Century Philadelphia (KYW News Radio)
All News, LCP in the Press, LCP News![Undivided sheet of Continental Currency, printed on blue paper for use as a counterfeit detector (Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1776).](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/ch03-11-Am1775Con-5815-F-Money-1-495x400.jpg)
![Logo for the Franklin Circles](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/franklin-circle-img-495x400.png)
![Dawkins, Henry. The Paxton Expedition: Inscribed to the Author of the Farce (Philadelphia: 1764).](https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/cartoon-1764-pax-795-f-20a-495x400.jpg)