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When the pandemic struck in March 2020, Odyssey classes shut down and so did Emily Auerbach’s Tuesday Morning Booktalks, a long-running series of community discussions of literature held at the public library. “I naively sent out an email to participants in the series saying we’d postpone our discussion of Toni Morrison for a few weeks …
Thank you all for being part of the circle of love that flows between Odyssey students, staff and supporters! Your gifts in 2020 allowed us to support our students and alumni as they valiantly overcame obstacles during these unimaginably challenging times. We continue to need help with technology access to enable students to fully participate …
Odyssey students start the new year just after Martin Luther King Jr. Day by reading his powerful 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” With its fervent call for justice, equality, unity and love, King’s words ring with especially urgent relevance this year: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” “I doubt that you would …