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Image for event: Author and Activist Ruth Coker Burks

Author and Activist Ruth Coker Burks

Compassion, advocacy, and the fight against AIDS.
2022-01-12 18:00:00 2022-01-12 19:00:00 America/Chicago Author and Activist Ruth Coker Burks Ruth Coker Burks discusses her book "All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South". Fayetteville Public Library - Walker Community Room

Wednesday, January 12
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-01-12 18:00:00 2022-01-12 19:00:00 America/Chicago Author and Activist Ruth Coker Burks Ruth Coker Burks discusses her book "All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South". Fayetteville Public Library - Walker Community Room

Fayetteville Public Library

Walker Community Room

Ruth Coker Burks discusses her book "All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South".

Ruth Coker Burks will discuss her book "All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South". Based on her work starting in Hot Springs, Arkansas, this moving and elegiac memoir honors the extraordinary life of Ruth Coker Burks and the beloved men with AIDS who fought valiantly for their lives during a most hostile and misinformed time in America.

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Talks & Lectures |

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