THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2021 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT

Join us and award-winning journalist Jo Napolitano as she discusses her debut book, The School I Deserve: Six Young Refugees and Their Fight for Equality in America. In conversation with the team from Libraries for Liberation, Napolitano will share the story of the groundbreaking ACLU lawsuit in 2016 that helped shape the access refugee children have to public education.

Jo Napolitano is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience at the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Newsday. She has written on many topics, but public education remains her primary focus. She first spotted the trend of public schools turning away immigrant children in 2014, when she was a senior reporter for Newsday. Months of research showed the trend was nationwide and won Napolitano a Spencer Education Fellowship to Columbia University to write this book.

Libraries for Liberation distributes books that raise awareness of systemic racism and center the experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) to neighborhoods across the United States. We purchase books from BIPOC-owned bookstores, and distribute them to Little Free Libraries through a network of volunteers. We hope the books that we distribute will facilitate community conversations that lead to connection, healing, and liberatory action.

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AN OFFICIAL 2021 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT: The School I Deserve with Jo Napolitano and Libraries for Liberation