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Upcoming events

    • 26 Mar 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom

    We are excited for the March Learn with the League program in partnership with LWV Upper Mississippi Region (LWV UMRR), “Advocating for the Upper Mississippi River." This program will explore climate change issues impacting the upper Mississippi watershed and will be held online on Tuesday, March 26, 7:00pm - 8:00pm.

    LWV UMRR is an Interleague organization consisting of local leagues in the states of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin located within the Upper Mississippi River Region, a USGS defined region of the US. Its concerns are focused on both surface and ground water in the Upper Mississippi Basin, both for the environment and human health.

    This will be a virtual event. Interested participants can register on Zoom at this link:

    https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nWUIax_GSw-Qj2T0v3v-eg

    The Zoom webinar will be closed captioned and also rebroadcast through program partners, SCCTV and SPNN.


    Our St. Paul – Learn With the League

    The League of Women Voters of St. Paul (www.lwvsp.org), celebrating 100 years, is dedicated to informed and active participation of citizens in government.  LWVSP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that neither supports nor opposes political parties or candidates.


    • 01 Apr 2024
    • 6:30 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom

    The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs. 

    "In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, who were all born at the beginning of the 20th century and forced to contend with the prejudices of Jim Crow as Black women. Berdis, Alberta, and Louise passed their knowledge to their children with the hope of helping them to survive in a society that would deny their humanity from the very beginning--from Louise teaching her children about their activist roots, to Berdis encouraging James to express himself through writing, to Alberta basing all of her lessons in faith and social justice. These women used their strength and motherhood to push their children toward greatness, all with a conviction that every human being deserves dignity and respect despite the rampant discrimination they faced. These three mothers taught resistance and a fundamental belief in the worth of Black people to their sons, even when these beliefs flew in the face of America's racist practices and led to ramifications for all three families' safety. The fight for equal justice and dignity came above all else for the three mothers. These women, their similarities and differences, as individuals and as mothers, represent a piece of history left untold and a celebration of Black motherhood long overdue."

    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.


    • 10 Apr 2024
    • 10:00 AM (CDT)
    • Highland Park Library

    Join us to discuss A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan. 

    "A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them."

    • 23 Apr 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom

    Join us to learn about some parts of the Ramsey County Judicial system, specifically the Women's Community Group that meets at the Wilder Foundation in St. Paul to help each other navigate the system. We will learn from some of the organizers such as Ramsey County Judges, attorneys, and others as they share the story of lifting each other up in community.

    This community group was featured in the Star Tribune on December 8, 2023.

    Register for the Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5Yj0Klk6QiKqQrd5BvCdXA

    • 06 May 2024
    • 6:30 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom

    The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris. 

    "Harris communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values while offering a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. In examining the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, she shows how our shared efforts will continue to sustain us and this great nation, now and in the years to come."

    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.


    • 08 May 2024
    • 10:00 AM (CDT)
    • Highland Park Library

    Join us to discuss Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights by Samuel Freedman. 

    "A revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the 20th century.

    • 10 Jun 2024
    • 6:30 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom

    Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard. 

    "A personal and scientific work on trees, forests, and the author's profound discoveries of tree communication."

    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.


    • 12 Jun 2024
    • 10:00 AM (CDT)
    • Highland Park Library

    Join us to discuss Good Night Irene: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea. 

    "A searing epic based on the magnificent and true story of courageous Red Cross women during WW2."

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