Pics from the African American Read-In

Earlier this week, Paul Blazer Library served as a site for the 22nd Annual National African American Read-In. Participants paid homage to beloved African American writers by sharing selections from their favorite works.

Check out the following pictures from the event:

Raphael Jackson, Blazer's new ILL Librarian, read from Alex Haley's "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". His selection spoke to the freedom and liberation that can be found through reading.

Sheila Stuckey, Library Director, sharing the poetry of Nikki Giovanni

Hettie Oldham, Archival Assistant, making the poems of Maya Angelou come alive

Ben Rawlins, Systems Librarian, reading from James Baldwin

Other selections shared at the Read-In included passages from

Carter G. Woodson's The Mis-Education of the Negro

and Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah and Elizabeth Delany.