<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold; ">The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Saturday, September 22 at 2pm at The Urbana Free Library</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Author Brian Dolinar will read from his recently released new book <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Black Cultural Front</span>. The book describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression led several African American artists and writers to
turn to leftist politics. Dolinar examines the works of poet Langston Hughes, novelist Chester Himes, and cartoonist Ollie Harrington. Collectively, the experience of these three figures contributes to the story of a "long" movement for African American freedom that flourished during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. </span><br><br>Brian Dolinar teaches in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is also an editor of The Public i, newspaper of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. <br></div> </div></body></html>