The Lincoln METCO Coordinating Committee and The First Parish in Lincoln welcome Boston and Lincoln resident students and families and all concerned with today’s challenges to a special presentation:

Does Your Hustle Match Your Game?

by award-winning biographer for young readers, Lincoln author

Ray Anthony Shepard

Ray Anthony Shepard is the author of three award-winning biographies for young readers. His fourth, The Forgotten: Patriots of Color at Lexington and Concord, will be published next year. After a career teaching eighth-grade American history and editing textbooks, Ray launched an encore career telling stories of Black lives that were more authentic than those found in schoolbooks.

His timely message geared to both kids & caregivers will address the current social-political-racial justice recession and how today’s students must prepare for the coming storm. He will stress three points: 1) Literacy in the AI world, 2) Literacy in the anti-DEI world, and 3) self-literacy: knowing yourself in this new environment. Time will be given for questions and comments. (Quiet activities will be available to occupy young children.)

Saturday, March 21, 2026, at 2:00 pm
with reception following

Putnam Hall at the UU Urban Ministry, John Eliot Square,
10 Putnam Street, Roxbury

Free parking is available on Dudley Street at Putnam Hall

or

A roundtrip bus from Lincoln will be offered by The First Parish Racial Justice Committee leaving at 12:45 from the Parish House parking lot. To reserve before March 10, please click the following link: https://fplincoln.breezechms.com/form/ray-shepard-talk.

General questions, please contact Kristen Ferris: ferris.kristen@gmail.com
or Dana Robbat: danarobbat@gmail.com