Community Reading

Guest: Beth Gorrie, Director of Staten Island’s OUtLOUD Program  What might happen if everyone in your community was reading and discussing the same book?  Staten Island residents spent a month reading Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and exploring its themes in community events. What made the experience powerful was the fact that it happened to coincide with a period of heightened racial tension after the death of Eric Garner in police custody on Staten Island.