<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>HE BOSTON AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE and</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>COMMUNITY CHANGE, INC.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b> </b>Present</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"> <b>WRITING RACE: MEMORY & IMAGINATION -- Readings by Boston Authors</b></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b> Kim McLarin Reads from JUMP AT THE SUN</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-indent: -138.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> This This novel intertwines the stories of three generations of African American mothers and daughters, each in her own way both enduring and challenging the legacy of slavery. <u>Jump at the Sun</u> was chosen by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association as a 2007 Fiction Honor book and the Massachusetts Center for the Book as the 2007 MA Book Awards Fiction Honor book. Ms McLarin hosts BASIC BLACK on WGBH.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>March 12, 2008</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b> The Museum of African American History</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>The Abiel Smith School</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>46 Joy Street</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Beacon Hill, Boston MA</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>6:30-8:30 p.m.</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b> </b>ASL/ENGLISH INTERPRETATION WILL BE PROVIDED </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px">Refreshments will be served</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> <i>Writing Race: Memory and Imagination</i> is funded through the generous support of the African American Experience Fund</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">For more information visit <a href="http://www.communitychangeinc.org/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#1907f1" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; color: #1907f1">www.communitychangeinc.org</font></a> or call 617-523-0555</font></div>
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