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February2002

African History Month Events in NYC

“I REMEMBER HARLEM”
February 7, 2002. 6pm; Donnell Library Center; 20 West 53rd Street, 10019. (212) 621-0618

Influential documentary filmmaker Bill Miles and producer Juanita Howard will present and discuss their films on African-American history, including I Remember Harlem (1981), their in-depth social, political, and religious history of Harlem, New York City. Titles to be screened to be announced. Adults.

“CELEBRATING LANGSTON
HUGHES’S 100 BIRTHDAY, 1902-1967”

February 12, 2002. Tuesday 4pm; New York Public Library, Harlem Branch; 9 W. 124th St. [between Fifth & Lenox Aves.]; New York, N.Y. 10027. (212) 348-5620

Thelma Thomas will pay tribute to the literary work and career of Langston Hughes, one of the foremost African American poet and writers. In celebration of African American Heritage Month. All ages.

MUSICAL TALES FROM AFRICA
February 13, 2002. Wednesday 4:30pm; Queens Borough Public Library, Kew Gardens Hills; 72-33 Vleigh Place,Flushing NY, 11367. (718) 261-6654

Storyteller Tammy Hall and percussionist Hasan Bakr take the audience on enchanting journey, displaying cultural link between music, stories steeped in beauty and the wisdom of Africans. Mbira, djembe drum, shekere are featured. For children, all ages/families.

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN FLUSHING
February 19, 2002. Tuesday 6:30pm.; Queens Borough Public Library, CEL.; 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY, 11432. (718) 990-0700

Join James Driscoll of the Queens Historical Society for a lecture/slide presentation on the Underground Railroad in Flushing.

A TRIBUTE TO ZORA NEALE HURSTON
February 19, 2002. 6pm.; Donnell Library Center; 20 West 53rd Street, 10019. (212) 621-0618

Every Tongue Got to Confess is a recently discovered volume of folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected (and later transcribed) while driving through the south in the late 1920s. These rescued folk tales represent the first new manuscript by Hurston to be published in over half a century. Speakers will include authors John Edgar Wideman, actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, author A. J. Verdelle, niece Lucy Hurston, and The Revelations, a story.

LANGSTON HUGHES
“KEEP THE FAITH, BABY”:

The Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Story
February 19, 2002. Tuesday 6:30pm.; Queens Borough Public Library, CEL.; 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY, 11432. (718) 990-0700

Exclusive film screening of this Showtime/Paramount film starring Harry Lennix, Vanessa Williams, Lance Reddick, Russell Hornsby. Guest speaker: producer/East Elmhurst native Geoffrey L. Garfield. In 2nd floor Auditorium.

CELEBRATE AFRICAN AMERICAN POETS
February 25, 2002. Monday 6pm. Free.

Brooklyn Heights Library, 280 Cadmon Plaza near Boro Hall, Brooklyn Heights, NY. Info: (718) 623-7100, daniela@garden.net

Featuring T’ai Freedom Ford & Mae Jackson. Daniela Gioseffi hosts a new series, “Celebrating Literary Brooklyn” and starts off with a Langston Hughes Centenary Event starring two African American women poets of Brooklyn for African American History Month. Sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc.#

 

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