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title: Black History Month 2022 - Event Recap
description: Find links to selected passages and guest readers at this recap of Overflow After Dark's Black History Month event, In Our Own Words, celebrating Black authors past and present.
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# [Black History Month 2022 - Event Recap](https://www.entrenuity.com/news-archive/black-history-month-2022-event-recap)

 Written by [Randi Lee Craigen](https://www.entrenuity.com/news-archive/author/randi-lee-craigen) | Mar 9, 2022 9:20:14 PM

#### 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.  

- [The Warmth of Other Suns (pages 3-15 in the book)-Isabel Wilkerson](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Warmth_of_Other_Suns/Y03WKII5m7QC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover):
  
  Read by Davo Sounds - Follow @davosoundschi and Brieann Jasmine - Follow @brieannjasmine
- Jamaal May [“Pomegranate Means Grenade"](https://poets.org/poem/pomegranate-means-grenade)
  
  <https://poets.org/poem/pomegranate-means-grenade>Quincy Troop [“Poem for My Father” ](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55712/poem-for-my-father)
  
  Kevin Young [“Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary”](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52826/eddie-priests-barbershop-notary)
  
  Read by Twelvie - Follow @dannytwelvetree
- [Kindred by Octavia Butler (Chapter 1-The River)](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Kindred/MYoDAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover)
  
  Read by Kierra White - Follow @sunny_3389
- [The Creative Process by James Baldwin](https://openspaceofdemocracy.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/baldwin-creative-process.pdf)
  
  Read by Shaffer Jones - Follow @shaffer.jones
- Khadijah Queen [“my loved blacknesses and some blacknesses I knew”](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58023/-my-loved-blacknesses-some-blacknesses-i-knew)
  
  Natasha Tretheway [“History Lesson”](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47538/history-lesson-56d2280d442a7)
  
  Read by Tiara Deshane - Follow @countingtiaras
- Audre Lorde [“Coal”](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42577/coal)
  
  Maya Angelou [“Caged Bird”](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48989/caged-bird)
  
  Read by Queen Ash - Follow @kingdomyogafitness
- Intermission Poet and Introduction of [How Men Cry](https://howmencry.com/blog/)  
  Jordan “Dxtr” Spits-Follow @dxtrspits; How Men Cry - Follow @howmen cry
- Sonia Sanchez [“I am Looking at Music" (Nina’s Poem)](https://www.simpleserenity.com/extraordinary-reading/i-am-looking-at-music/)  
  Maya Angelou [“Phenomenal Women”](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48985/phenomenal-woman)  
  Read by Keya Trammell - Follow @keyatrammell
- Ralph Ellison [“Juneteenth” (pages 3-9 in the book)](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Juneteenth/P4nQr-Zk0BMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover)  
  Read by Courtney Boyd - Follow @revivefamilyandwellness
- Gil Scott Heron [“The Revolution Will Not be Televised”](https://genius.com/Gil-scott-heron-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-lyrics)   
  Read by Chai Tulani - Follow @chaitulani
- Sharon G Flake [The Skin I’m In” (Chapter 4)](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56094782e4b0d365d1cb8815/t/56cdb4499f72669d299f2492/1456321615781/The+Skin+I%27m+in+-+Sharon+Flake.pdf)   
  Read by Kenya Denise - Follow @simplykenyadenise
- William Ernest Henley “[Invictus”](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/invictus)   
  Maya Angelou [“Still I Rise”](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise)  
  Read by Ace Da Vinci - Follow @sevendayhigh 

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