Mechanics' Institute's CinemaLit, a salon to discuss films, with a special August focus on Black Lives, invites the public to discuss I'm Not Your Negro, an acclaimed documentary on the famed author and intellectual James Baldwin, hosted and curated by Matthew Kennedy, online, free to the public, 6:00–7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend at www.milibrary.org/events)
Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)