The Connolly Public Library Virtual Adult Book Discussion Group will discuss Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng. A limited number of copies are available at the branch. Please email Nic at connolly@bpl.org for the Zoom link to participate.  

The Connolly Public Library and Mothers Out Front are hosting a Book Discussion and Virtual Q&A with Dr. Margaret Klein Salamon, author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth on Saturday, Jan. 27 from 2-4 pm. Participants are encouraged to read as much as they can, but not required to […]

At least 27 Africans were enslaved in Jamaica Plain in the 1700s.  Hidden Jamaica Plain will present an overview of slavery in Jamaica Plain. This history includes land theft, enslavement first of Indigenous people and then expansion to Africans.  Massachusetts Bay was the first English colony in North America to legalize slavery in 1641.  Chattel […]

The Connolly Public Library Spanish Book Discussion Group will discuss La Catedral Del Mar by Ildefonso Falcones. A limited number of copies are available at the branch. The discussion will be in Spanish.  

City Life/Vida Urbana will tell their story of an organization that rose from the seeds of the feminist, civil rights, and anti-war movements in the early 1970s and maintains that lineage of anti-displacement organizing and a movement of building solidarity within our communities to this day. This talk will be given via Zoom.