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We are pleased to announce that this year's Cambridge READS title is Colored People a memoir by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Mr. Gates is the Director of Harvard's W E B DuBois Institute of African and African American Studies. Among his large body of work is the successful PBS series, African American Lives 1 and 2 and Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own. The narrative Colored People tells his story of growing up (pre-Civil Rights Era) in the small rural town of Piedmont, West Virginia. We are looking forward to Mr. Gates speaking at the Author Event in November at Sanders Theatre. There will be book discussions scheduled this summer and fall at libraries and other locations in Cambridge. Copies of the book are now available at all locations of the Cambridge Public Library. More details will be made available as planning continues. |