African American Read-In
February 20th, 2014: 5 – 6:30 pm
Readers and Selections
Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1928 / The Prodigal Son, 1927
Readers: Reverend Mischelle Townsend / Saint Paul’s Baptist Church and Reverend Macio Freeman / Saint Paul’s Baptist Church
Selections: We Wear the Masks and The Prodigal Son
Christ and His Disciples on the Sea of Galilee, ca. 1910
Readers : Dr. Lakiesha Cooke / Saint Paul’s Baptist Church and Jenny Gafford / Saint Paul’s Baptist Church
Selections: Portions of Martin Luther King’s Letters from a Birmingham Jail
Community Power Figure, 19th Century
Readers: Lorna Pinckney / Verses Tuesdays / CEO Upsdie Marketing
Selections: Nikki Giovanni Ego Tripping and Excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk
Marian Anderson, 1965
Readers : Lux Aghomo / John B. Cary Elementary School and Spencer Dobbins / John B. Cary Elementary School
Selections: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Resignation from the Daughters of the American Revolution and Oprah Winfrey, Excerpts from 2013 Harvard Commencement Address
Alexander Spotswood Payne and His Brother, John Robert Dandridge Payne with Their Nurse, 1790 – 1800
Readers: Vadeja Archer / Virginia Union University and Dionne Greenhill / Virginia Union University
Selections: Y.B. Taylor’s “Perhaps,” from Out of Bounds in an InBound World and
Excerpts from Benjamin Banneker’s Letter to Thomas Jefferson
Statue of Senkamanisken, King of Kush, Late Period , 643-623 B.C.
Readers: Dionna Wright /Church Hill Academy and Chris Wilson /Church Hill Academy
Selections: Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers and Barak Obama’s 2004 DNC Keynote Address
Sisters (Susan and Toni), 1977
Reader: Maya Smart / Acclaimed Author and Writer
Selections: Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise and For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf By Ntozake Shange
Untitled, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 (In Signs of Protest)
Reader: Sarah Eckhardt / VMFA
Selection: Writings from Gordon Parks