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Film Screening: The Right to Read
Monday, September 30
7:00pm - 8:30pm
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2024-09-30 19:00:00
2024-09-30 20:30:00
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Film Screening: The Right to Read
Central Library - Rasmussen North
Central Library
Rasmussen NorthThe Schaumburg Library will be hosting a screening of the short documentary film The Right to Read. Concluding with an open discussion on thoughts and feelings provoked by the film.
Film Synopsis:
When a child can’t read, their chances of incarceration, homelessness, and unemployment increase. That's why Oakland-based NAACP activist Kareem Weaver believes literacy is one of the greatest civil rights issues of our time and is fighting for better reading instruction. “What good is winning the right to vote if we can’t even read the ballot?” Fed up with the bleak reading scores in his own community, Kareem files a petition with the Oakland Unified School District demanding change.
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The Schaumburg Township District Library serves in excess of 134,000 residents in portions of the municipalities Elk Grove Village, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Streamwood. With over 1 million visitors each year, the library circulates over 2,000,000 items annually and is the second largest public library in the state of Illinois.
