Third Annual Black History Month Read-a-thon
Channel: UMDLibraries
Date: 17/02/2022

The UMD Libraries’ Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee  is very excited to announce the Third Annual Black History Month Read-a-Thon, to be held virtually on Thursday, February 17th from 11AM-2PM. 

This year's theme is “Authenticity in Black Identities”, where we will be celebrating and highlighting the different Black identities of the African Diaspora while embracing our different cultures together as one.

Under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 

The works highlighted in this livestream were used for educational and teaching purposes only and belong to the authorized copyright owners.

On Motherhood and Ancestral Resistance by Kirsten West Savali
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W Twitty
A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long by Nikki Giovanni
Dirty business: the messy affair of rejecting shame by Tanya Denise Fields
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass
Elegy for the Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
Poetry is Not a Luxary by Audre Lorde
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Soul Food: Recipes and Reflections from African-American Churches by Joyce White
My Spirit Burns Through This Body by Akwaeke Emezi
Sound matters: postcolonial critique for a viral age by Lars Eckstein
This Is Not a Small Voice by Sonia Sanchez
The West Indian Day Parade by Quincy Troupe
Intersectionality by Patricia Hill Collins