Leon County Honors Black History and Culture Through Literature
WHO: Leon County
WHAT: African American Read-In
WHEN: Sunday, February 12, 2017, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
WHERE: Leon County Main Library, 200 W. Park Ave.
Leon County invites the community to celebrate African-American history and culture through literature at the African American Read-In on Sunday, February 12 from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. at the Leon County Main Library, 200 W. Park Ave.
Throughout the afternoon community leaders and volunteers will read selections written by African American authors from poems, fiction and nonfiction books, song lyrics, plays, speeches and children's books.
The event’s featured reader, Patricia Edwards, a retired television stage manager, writer and actress, will be reading “The Party”, an excerpt from The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Other bodies of work to be read include God Help the Child by Toni Morrison, Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Black Boy by Richard Wright.
Throughout the month of February, all seven Leon County Public Library locations will exhibit special displays of materials to celebrate Black History Month.
The event is open to readers of all ages. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contact Mary Douglas, Library Services Coordinator at (850) 606-2665 / DouglasM@LeonCountyFL.gov or Mathieu Cavell, Leon County Community and Media Relations, at (850) 606-5300 / cmr@LeonCountyFL.gov .
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