- Aug 15, 2022
August 16 | Psyche Williams-Forson — Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
WLC's partnership with Politics and Prose Bookstore continues tomorrow! Psyche Williams-Forson — Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America - with Chef Rahman "Rock" Harper Tuesday August 16, 2022 7:00 PM EST WLC President & CEO Jimmie Williams will begin the evening with opening remarks. Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism o
- Aug 10, 2022
August 12 | Wash Lit and P&P! Maya Payne Smart — Reading for Our Lives — with Corey Minor Smith
WLC's partnership with Politics and Prose Bookstore continues this Friday! Maya Payne Smart — Reading for Our Lives Friday, August 12, 2022 7:00 PM EST Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly researc
- Aug 2, 2022
WLC at the 2022 Congressional Baseball Game for Charity
Washington Literacy Center staff, students, and friends attended The Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. We are very grateful to be one of the beneficiaries of this great event. #CongressionalBaseballGame #charity #AdultLiteracy #WashLit #GetLit #WhereLivesChange
- May 24, 2022
Washington Literacy Center Opens New Location
As a tight labor market is increasing opportunities for Washingtonians, the Washington Literacy Center (WLC) is redoubling its efforts to help people with the greatest barriers and fewest resources learn to read. The centerpoint of the nonprofit's work is its new location at 1133 15th St., NW in the District, where WLC held a ribbon-cutting and grand opening celebration on Wednesday, May 18, from noon to 1:30 p.m... Continue Reading #WashLit #AdultLiteracy #GetLit #WhereLives
- Apr 7, 2022
April 29 | Wash Lit and P&P! Alton Brown – Good Eats: The Final Years
WLC's partnership with Politics and Prose Bookstore continues! Alton Brown – Good Eats: The Final Years Friday, April 29, 2022 7:00 PM EST For more info: https://www.politics-prose.com/.../alton-brown-good-eats... #WashLit #AdultLiteracy #GetLit #PoliticsProse #WhereLivesChange
- Nov 15, 2021
November 21 | Wash Lit and P&P Live! Lidia Bastianich — LIDIA'S A POT, A PAN, AND A BOWL
WLC's "Author Series" partnership with Politics and Prose Bookstore continues! Join P&P Live! Beloved TV chef Lidia Basianich presents her new Italian cookbook with James Beard award-winning author, Carla Lalli Music. Sunday, November 21, 2021
5:00 PM EST For tickets register here. #WashLit #PoliticsProse #AdultLiteracy #GetLit #WhereLivesChange
