WESTPORT TURNED OUT FOR THESE TWO EVENTS HONORING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

AT THE WESTPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY

AVAILABLE UNTIL FEBRUARY 27

Jelani Cobb is a clear voice in the fight for a better America. The dean of the Columbia Journalism School and PBS Frontline correspondent for two critically acclaimed documentaries, Cobb explores the enormous complexities of our history, politics, and culture, while offering guidance and hope for the future.  

A longtime writer for The New Yorker, the editor of its anthology collection The Matter of Black Lives, and the author of Three or More Is a Riot (one of Kirkus‘s best books of the year), Cobb “combines the rigor and depth of a professional historian with the alertness of a reporter, the liberal passion of an engaged public intellectual, and the literary flair of a fine writer,” said Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. 

The Westport Country Playhouse presented a screening of the Emmy-winning 2019 documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, a
documentary film that follows Bryan Stevenson and Equal Justice Initiative‘s struggle to create greater fairness in the criminal justice system.

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration is a partnership between the Library, TEAM Westport, the Westport Country Playhouse, Westport Museum for History and Culture, and the Westport/Weston Clergy Association.