Lift Up Black Voices - Black History at Houston Public Library

 

Saturday, February 19, 2022 Central Library | 500 McKinney, 77002 Barbara Bush Literacy Plaza at the Houston Public Library Downtown Enjoy food, music and dancing! Support local booksellers, Brazos Bookstore and Kindred Stories, and celebrate the culture, history and creativity of Black artists and storytellers! Register to attend this free event. Event Schedule 11 AM | Avalon Hogans, Houston Youth Poet Laureate 11:15 AM | Don Tate, (pictured, top left) 2021 Texas Writer Award winner, author-illustrator of numerous children's books NOON | Poets on the Plaza! Outspoken Bean (pictured, top right) and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton 1 PM | Jean Donatto as Young Audiences' Rosa Parks (pictured, top center) 2:15 PM | Black Cowboys of Rodeo contributors, Harold Cash, Myrtis Dightman, Bailey's Prairie Kid and Freddie Gordon, in conversation with moderator Justice Ken Wise 3:15 PM | Closing & dance party with DJ Caribbeats and master class instructor Max Solorzano  ‌  ‌  ‌