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Lakeland to host community book read with Jelani Cobb

Award-winning author and journalist Jelani Cobb will discuss race relations in today’s America as part of the fifth annual Lakeland University Community Book Read.

Cobb will deliver a talk entitled “The Half-Life of Freedom: Race and Justice in America Today” beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, in the Bradley Theatre on the Lakeland campus.

The event is free and open to everyone.

Cobb is appearing as part of the LU Community Book Read, which this year invites the community to read the award-winning “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

A discussion of Coates’ book will be held on April 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the Rocca Room at Mead Public Library in downtown Sheboygan. Lakeland faculty members Peter Sattler and Lex Cade-White will facilitate a discussion exploring the book and its themes.

Books are available for checkout at Mead. The book discussion is also a free event.

A number of other events are planned and can be found at Lakeland.edu/bookread.

Cobb is the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a frequent commentator on national television. He is the author of “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress” and “To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic.”

His articles and essays have appeared in the Washington Post, The New Republic, Essence, Vibe, The Progressive and TheRoot.com.

He is the recipient of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Award for Opinion and Analysis writing and writes frequently about race, politics, history and culture.

Born and raised in Queens, New York, Cobb is a graduate of Howard University and Rutgers University where he received his doctorate in American history.

“Between the World and Me” is the 2015 National Book Award winner, a work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences.

Plymouth High School foreign-exchange students share about home

AFS foreign-exchange students at Plymouth High School again will share information about their home countries with the public. The final set of 2017-18 presentations will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 8, at Generations, 1500 Douglas Drive, Plymouth. Presenting will be Federica from Italy, Luis from Norway, Lucas from Spain, and Sanae from Japan.

Time for questions and mingling will follow the presentations.

For more details, please visit Plymouth High School’s website http://www.plymouth.k12.wi.us or call the school office at 920-893-6911.

Plymouth High Amph-Rats to present comedy play 'Good Doctor'

Plymouth High School drama students will present the delightfully funny play "The Good Doctor" from Thursday, April 12, to Sunday, April 15. "The Good Doctor," written by Neil Simon, presents a series of comedic sketches inspired by Anton Chekov's many short stories. 

The narrator of the play (Justin Schmitz) is also the writer of these stories, and he periodically participates as one of the featured characters. The setting is turn-of-the-20th-century Russia, where audiences will meet the humorously humiliated sneezer (Deklan Solonika), a pitiful governess (Lizzie Riley) under the command of a tyrannical employer (Sydney Tackes), a highly-distraught banker (Matthew Klemm), and a doctor-to-be (Quinn Zwick). 

Performances will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 12 through Saturday, April  14, with a matinee at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in the Amphitheatre at the school, 125 Highland Ave. General admission tickets are $5 and are available at the door and in the PHS office from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. the week of the show.

For more details, visit Plymouth High School’s website http://www.plymouth.k12.wi.us or call Janet DeJean Newton at 920-893-6911.

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