Black History Month 2022 - Event Recap

Thank you to the wonderful volunteers, guests, and artists who made our Black History Month event IN OUR OWN WORDS such an amazing evening of reflection and inspiration. Below is a list of the selections read and the talented creatives who read them.  

• The Warmth of Other Suns (pages 3-15 in the book)-Isabel Wilkerson:
  Read by Davo Sounds - Follow @davosoundschi and Brieann Jasmine - Follow @brieannjasmine
• Jamaal May “Pomegranate Means Grenade"
  
   Quincy Troop “Poem for My Father”
  Kevin Young “Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary”
  Read by Twelvie - Follow @dannytwelvetree
• Kindred by Octavia Butler (Chapter 1-The River)
  Read by Kierra White - Follow @sunny_3389
• The Creative Process by James Baldwin
  Read by Shaffer Jones - Follow @shaffer.jones
• Khadijah Queen “my loved blacknesses and some blacknesses I knew”
  Natasha Tretheway “History Lesson”
  Read by Tiara Deshane - Follow @countingtiaras
• Audre Lorde “Coal”
  Maya Angelou “Caged Bird”
  Read by Queen Ash - Follow @kingdomyogafitness
• Intermission Poet and Introduction of How Men Cry
  Jordan “Dxtr” Spits-Follow @dxtrspits; How Men Cry - Follow @howmen cry
  
• Sonia Sanchez “I am Looking at Music" (Nina’s Poem)
  Maya Angelou “Phenomenal Women”
  Read by Keya Trammell - Follow @keyatrammell
  
• Ralph Ellison “Juneteenth” (pages 3-9 in the book)
  Read by Courtney Boyd - Follow @revivefamilyandwellness
  
• Gil Scott Heron “The Revolution Will Not be Televised”
  Read by Chai Tulani - Follow @chaitulani
  
• Sharon G Flake The Skin I’m In” (Chapter 4)
  Read by Kenya Denise - Follow @simplykenyadenise
  
• William Ernest Henley “Invictus”
  Maya Angelou “Still I Rise”
  Read by Ace Da Vinci - Follow @sevendayhigh