[dropcap size=big]S[/dropcap]upporters of the former directors of the ALOUD lecture series at the L.A. Public Library rallied at a library commission board meeting against the foundation’s director.
The ruckus at a normally boring Los Angeles commission meeting meant that scene was more like a City Council public comment period.
In August, the founding director of the ALOUD Series Louise Steinman and associate director Maureen Moore were fired and escorted from the library. After twenty five years leading the celebrated lecture series – which had included the likes of W. Kamau Bell, Natalie Diaz, Jennifer Egan, and even James Comey – Steinman was out.
The last exhibit the team put on ended in controversy. L.A. Taco revealed the Library Foundation declined to make any public statements on the removal of two artists from San Francisco International Airport. Both sides have suggested that the Tlacolulokos case had nothing to do with the firings.