NEWBURYPORT -- The Friends of William Lloyd Garrison will host a conversation with Boston Globe columnist Renée Graham entitled “To Resist is to Exist” on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 3 p.m.

Free and open to the public, the conversation will take place at the Old South

Presbyterian Church, 29 Federal St., just around the corner from the School Street

house where Garrison, the renowned abolitionist and newspaper editor, was born Dec. 10, 1805.

Graham will share the platform with moderator Sophie Godley, a clinical associate professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, who will pose questions for Graham submitted ahead of time or at the door of the event. The wide-ranging conversation is expected to cover current day issues, both political and cultural. As an opinion columnist and associate editor for the Globe’s op-ed section, Graham writes about myriad topics such as race and racism, domestic violence, LGBTQ issues, police misconduct, civil rights and politics. She also authors the Globe newsletter Outtakes.

In addition, Graham has been a contributor to CNN Original Series, the acclaimed program documenting the decades of the 20th century. She also was a featured commentator in the four-part original documentary, “1968: The Year That Changed America,” on CNN and in Netflix’s “ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke.” Cooke was the legendary soul singer and civil rights activist who was murdered in 1964.

Graham was a prominent voice in W. Kamau Bell’s “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” a Peabody Award-winning documentary about reckoning with Bill Cosby, the once beloved comic icon who was also a serial sexual predator. She also was a contributor to the 2024 book, “Wake Up America: Black Women on the Future of Democracy,” edited by Keisha Blain.

This is the sixth annual event sponsored by the volunteer Friends of William Lloyd Garrison to celebrate the Newburyport native who was a driving force in the 19th century abolition movement. Garrison published The Liberator weekly newspaper for more than 30 years until the end of the Civil War.

So submit questions for Graham, go to WLGarrison.com.

For more information, follow Friends of William Lloyd Garrison on Facebook.