City Lights Books presents physician and activist Dr. Rupa Marya and political economist Raj Patel, The Value of Nothing, discussing their new book, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, investigating the profound racial disparities in medicine, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_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)