EASTVILLE COMMUNITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Thursday, February 18 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Celebrate African American literature that transforms your voice into hope for the future. This year’s theme draws upon the Akan people of Ghana’s symbol, Sankofa; a bird facing backwards to pick up an egg from it’s back. This gesture symbolizes learning from the past to create a better future. That’s what great literature

encourages us to do.

Sign up to read a short excerpt from a favorite work of an African American author along this theme. Including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, oral history, or family story.

We’ll begin with a reading of James Baldwin’s iconic “Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation,” by artist Michael A. Butler.

All are welcome to attend. Listeners encouraged!

Register to read or listen with this link: http://bit.ly/annualreadin

Email [email protected] for information.

Canio’s Cultural Cafe, Eastville Community Historical Society and John Jermain Memorial Library co-host the annual African-American Read-In, sponsored by the Black Caucus of The National Council of Teachers of English.