Neighborhood Legal Services works to promote fairness in the civil justice system. This presentation will provide a general overview of their services.

REGISTER HERE (In-Person Seating) or HERE (Livestream) for this FREE event. At this time masks are required to be worn for the duration of the in-person event. Find detailed entry requirements here. The One and Only Ivan meets The Wild Robot in this unique and deeply moving middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover, from the Newbery Honor-winning author … Continued

REGISTER HERE (In-Person Seating) or HERE (Livestream) for this FREE event. At this time masks are required to be worn for the duration of the in-person event. Find detailed entry requirements here. In 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together … Continued

REGISTER HERE (In-Person Seating) or HERE (Livestream) Seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection—both were traumatized by gun violence. Ava’s best friend had been killed in a shooting … Continued

REGISTER HERE (In-Person Seating) or HERE (Livestream) Black people and people with disabilities in the United States are distinctively disadvantaged in their encounters with the health care system. These groups also share harsh histories of medical experimentation, eugenic sterilizations, and health care discrimination. Yet the similarities in inequities experienced by Black people and disabled people and the harms … Continued