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title: Celebrate 25 years in Memphis!
description: Facing History and Ourselves has a plan and a vision for the future. Imagine a world shaped by knowledge and compassion, not racism, antisemitism, and prejudice.
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 Facing History and Ourselves has a plan and a vision for the future. Imagine a world shaped by knowledge and compassion, not racism, antisemitism, and prejudice.

| Having trouble reading the email? View it as a web page.  Manage your email preferences.. Co-Chairs Myra and Reggie Crenshaw, Dale and Marty Kelman, and Joanna and Josh Lipman invite you to celebrate  Facing History and Ourselves: 25 Years in Memphis featuring keynote speaker Jelani Cobb Monday, October 23, 2017 Jelani Cobb holds the Ira Lipman professorship at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a staff writer at The New Yorker where he frequently writes about race, history, justice, and culture in America. In 2015, Cobb received the Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism for his New Yorker columns, in which he combined the strengths of an on-the-scene reporter, a public intellectual, a teacher, a vivid writer, a subtle moralist, and an accomplished professional historian.  Monday, October 23, 2017 6:00 p.m. Reception 6:45-9:00 p.m. Program & Dinner  Memphis Hilton 939 Ridge Lake Boulevard Memphis, Tennessee       For more information, please visit facinghistory.org/memphisdinner or contact Anna Kathryn Word at 901-452-1776, extension 223. Facing History and Ourselves equips educators and youth with skills that allow them to wrestle with today's issues through the lens of history. We believe that by empowering our youth, they will build a more engaged, moral, and compassionate society.    Facing History, Memphis, 115 Huling Avenue, Memphis, TN 38103 |
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