Libraries
Celebrate Black History Month
Enoch
Pratt Free Library and Baltimore County Public Library
will celebrate African-American History with a variety of
events in February. Among the scheduled events at Enoch
Pratt is Black History Month: Meet the Authors.
The authors include:
Author, Louis S. Diggs—Forgotten Road Warriors
Thursday, Feb. 1, 10:30 A.M., Pennsylvania Avenue Branch
Sunday, Feb. 11, 2 p.m., Central Library, Poe Room
Thursday, Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m., Light Street Branch
Author,
Joe Drape—Black Maestro: The Epic Life
of an American Legend
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 6:30 p.m., Central Library - Wheeler Auditorium
Author, Harriet A. Washington—Medical
Apartheid,
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m., Central Library - Wheeler Auditorium
Author,
Edward Theodore Taylor—Just God and
Me: A Korean War Veteran Remembers (Second Wind Press),
Saturday, Feb. 10, 2 p.m., Central Library - Poe Room
Author, Mary Kay Ricks—Escape
on the PEARL: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 6:30 p.m., Central Library - Poe Room
Author,
Raymond A. Winbush—Should America Pay?
Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations (Amistad)
Wednesday, Feb. 21, 6:30 p.m., Pennsylvania Avenue Branch
Author,
Sherrilyn A. Ifill—On the Courthouse Lawn
Saturday, Mar. 17, 2 p.m., Edmondson Avenue Branch
Happy
Birthday, Beloved!—Celebration of Toni
Morrison's award-winning novel
Sunday, Feb. 25, 2 p.m., Central Library - Wheeler Auditorium
Baltimore
County Public Library will celebrate African-American
History with a variety of events for school aged children.
These activities include:
Soul
Portraits at the Catonsville Library on Tuesday, Feb.
13th
Songs
of Africa—Games and dances of Ghana and Zimbabwe
will be taught.
Thursday, Feb. 1, 1:00 PM, Rosedale
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 7:00 PM, Cockeysville
Tuesday, Feb. 20, 7:00 PM, North Point
Thursday, Feb. 22, 7:00 PM, Perry Hall
 The
storyteller Bunjo: The West Baltimore African Talking Drum—Stories,
songs and music from the African and African-American oral
tradition will be presented.
Saturday, Feb 3, Sat 3:00 PM, Randallstown
Saturday, Feb 3, Sat 1:00 PM, Woodlawn
Thursday, Feb 8, 7:00 PM, Catonsville
Saturday, Feb 10, Sat 2:00 PM, Lansdowne
Saturday, Feb 24, Sat 2:00 PM, Essex
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