National African American Read-In

2009 African-American Read-In

This year marks the 20th year for the National African American Read-In

Join us in the Edmunds Library for our first African-American Read-In. NMCC English Instructor Jen Graham has coordinated the event. NMCC students, faculty, and staff will be reading their selections as listed below.

Join us in celebrating on Friday, February 27, NMCC Library 11:30 AM

Alysia Thibodeau – Phyllis Wheatley – “On Being Brought from Africa to America”; 1773

Bob Sines – Olaudah Equiano – from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa; 1789

Janet Grivois – Frances E. W. Harper – “Bury Me in a Free Land”; 1864

Brian Nadeau – Booker T. Washington – from Up From Slavery; 1865

Sara Hobbs – Paul Dunbar – “We Wear the Mask”; 1896

Joane Maingrette – Langston Hughes – “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; 1921

Dave Raymond – Zora Neale Hurston – from “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”; 1928

Amanda LeJeune – Ralph Ellison; from Invisible Man; 1952

Candice Rivera – James Baldwin – from “Notes of a Native Son”; 1955

Jake Graham – MLK – from “I Have a Dream”; 1963

Gail Roy – Alice Walker – “Remember?”; 1979

Vanninnia Small – Maya Angelou – “Phenomenal Woman”; 1995

Ellie Jalbert – Barack Obama -- from Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance; 1995