Michelle Duster and illustrator Laura Freeman discuss their new picture book Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth is an inspiring biography of the civil rights activist as told by her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster. Ida B. Wells was […]
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10feb@6pm ~ Book Talk: Resisting Jim Crow
John McFall was born 15 years after Emancipation. He was the first of eleven children born to a freed couple in Charleston, South Carolina. He entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy before completing high school. […]
10feb@8pm ~ Book Talk: Black Girls Must Be Magic
In this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha Walker copes with more of life’s challenges and a happy surprise—a baby—with a little help and lots of love from […]
8feb@7:30PM ~ It’s Been Said All Along: Voices of Rage, Hope & Empowerment $
In collaboration with the legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the O.B. Hardison Poetry series will create a poetic mixtape in response to the exhibition It’s Been Said All Along: Voices of Rage, […]
8feb5:30PM ~ Art AfterWords
The National Portrait Gallery and the DC Public Library would like to invite you to a virtual conversation about love, second chances, and the power of a great torch song. Join us as we analyze […]
8feb@6PM ~ Book Talk: The Last Slave Ship by Ben Raines
The Last Slave Ship is the incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them […]
9feb@6:30PM ~ Black Lives Matter Describe-A-Thon
Celebrate activism in DC by helping provide access to posters collected from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence in Lafayette Square. Celebrate activism in DC by helping The People’s Archive add posters collected from the […]
Pride is one of the three core values of The Black Swan Academy. We believe that youth should be proud of who they are and where they come from. This writing contest is meant to […]
6feb@7PM ~ Book Talk: BREATH BETTER SPENT
In Breath Better Spent, DaMaris B. Hill hoists her childhood self onto her shoulders, together taking in the landscape of Black girlhood in America. At a time when Black girls across the country are increasingly vulnerable to unjust […]
6feb@6PM ~ Film Screening — MORE THAN A TEST SCORE
Most of our Black and Brown kids (especially boys) were already struggling in reading literacy and are behind in their learning compared to other communities and more fortunate kids. The gap has spread wider due […]
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