History Revealed: We Are Meant to Rise

We Are Meant to Rise
With Carolyn Holbrook, David Mura, Suleiman Adan, Marcie Rendon and Kevin Yang

History Revealed Series
Program Date: Thursday, January 13, 2022
Video on YouTube

In partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library.
We Are Meant to Rise is presented in partnership with More Than a Single Story and the University of Minnesota Press.

We are Meant to Rise (published by the University of Minnesota Press) is a brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota. These writers bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history, with essays and poems that vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020.

Arising out of Carolyn Holbrook’s work with her organization, More Than a Single Story, We Are Meant to Rise merges the events of today, the past year, and the centuries before, in works that are powerful testaments to the intrinsic and unique value of all who make up our community, lifting up the often overlooked voices of BIPOC writers in Minnesota.

We were honored to have some of these writers join us in a panel discussion about their writing and experiences.

Past History Revealed Programs
More videos of some of our past History Revealed programs are available on the RCHS YouTube channel.
Ramsey County Historical Society Youtube Channel

To purchase titles from the History Revealed series, or other books of interest, see our partner, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/