HPNL presents an online author event with Ayana Contreras Feb. 16 at 7PM. This free event is open to the public. Register at https://go.library.illinois.edu/Febevent. Contreras is the content director of WBEZ’s sister station Vocalo and host of an all-vinyl radio show. "Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago" is her first book. Join HPNL for a reading from Energy Never Dies and a panel with Kamau Grantham and Stacey Robinson. Both are DJs and visual artists. "Energy Never Dies" is available digitally to anyone with an Urbana-Champaign NetID: https://go.library.illinois.edu/EnergyNeverDies.
