Come see "Aunt Pookie's Girls" May 23, 2026 at The Arts Center of the Capital Region! RSVP using the link below!

🎭Let's do this! ❤️❤️❤️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mary-ann-byas-drake-aunt-pookies-girls-stage-play-reading-tickets-1981601074156?msockid=3f0b1952c2696e4501930f86c3ad6f5c

 

🎉New Book Alert! "Goal Girls" by Judge Glenda A. Hatchett will be available April 7, 2026! ❤️❤️❤️

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R.R. Martin

 

New Book Alert! "Extended Hands: A Love Story" by Renowned Artist, Leroy Campbell is available now!

Leroy Campbell is an internationally renowned fine artist and visual storyteller. His art is heavily influenced by the Gullah-Geechee culture of his youth in Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Campbell spent most of his adult years in New York City as one of its new renaissance artists, inspired by the master artists of the Brooklyn Renaissance and Harlem Renaissance eras. Extended Hands, A Love Story is his riveting new memoir, which chronicles his rise in the art world after enduring a traumatic start in his childhood: birth-defected hands, an abusive household, poverty, and abandonment. He currently creates fine art while living in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Remembering Civil Rights Leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)

Most of the content for this video commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was taken from the book, "Black Heroes: 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A. (A Black History Book for Kids)" (2020) by Arlisha Norwood, PhD and Anastasia Magloire Williams. (See below.) The video also includes ten inspirational and enduring quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #drmartinlutherkingjr #martinlutherking #martinlutherkingjrday #biography #biographyforchildren #biographyforkids #biographiesforchildren #storytime #storytimeforchildren #storytimeforkids #lifestories

 

Happy Birthday, Dr. King!

“When evil men plot, good men must plan.

 When evil men burn and bomb, good men

 must build and bind. When evil men shout

 ugly words of hatred, good men must commit

 themselves to the glories of love.” —Dr. Martin

 Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968)

 

"Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86." Rest in power, Queen.

"Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86." Rest in power, Queen.
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