Thursday, July 1, 2021 | Live Event at Bow Market

Despite the rain, this event was a huge success! Now an annual event, we partnered this year with Bow Market who donated their space and the Somerville Media Center who recorded the event. The reading was held live but also create a recording for those who could not attend.

As a follow up to this event, Somerville Museum Assistant Director, Alison Drasner, and the Director of Mass Humanities, Brian Boyles, were invited by #theonecedboogie podcast* to discuss the relevancy of Frederick Douglass' What to the Slave is the 4th of July? speech. They also discussed the importance of developing partnerships with other community-based organizations to establish long-term collaborations.

Listen to Podcast here.

#theonecedboogie podcast is created by Cedric Ced-Boogie Arno for the iHeart platform and Podbean.com

Keidrick Roy is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Harvard University. His dissertation explores race, religion, and political philosophy in European and American intellectual history. In 2018 Keidrick co-curated an exhibit on the postbellum writings of Frederick Douglass for the American Writers Museum in Chicago, and he is currently working on an exhibition for the Houghton Library at Harvard University entitled “Reframing the Racial State.” Keidrick is a former military nuclear operations officer and Instructor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. Keidrick is a Somerville Museum and Advisory Council member, and will be leading our Summer Discussion Series, “Race, Fragility, and Anti-Racism” beginning on July 1st.