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.
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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 -
Read by Kierra White - Follow @sunny_3389
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Read by Shaffer Jones - Follow @shaffer.jones
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Khadijah Queen “my loved blacknesses and some blacknesses I knew”Natasha Tretheway “History Lesson”Read by Tiara Deshane - Follow @countingtiaras
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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
