AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH BOOK LISTS

African American Literature and History for Children

African American Literature and History for Young Adults

The African American Experience: Fiction & Non-Fiction

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH EVENTS

CENTRAL LIBRARY

Baba the Storyteller
Jan 28 Saturday 2-3 pm,  Mark Taper Auditorium
Baba shares stories and songs from West Africa, with lots of audience participation.

Teen Council: Kente Cloth
Feb 28 Tuesday 4:30-5:30pm, Teen’Scape
Create your own custom kente cloth pattern with the art supplies provided.

CENTRAL SOUTHERN AREA

Freedom Reigns
Feb 7 Tuesday 3:30-4:30 pm, Angeles Mesa Branch
Join us for stories and crafts in celebration of African-American History Month! For all children grades K-5.

History of Gospel Music In Los Angeles
Feb 11 Saturday 2:00pm, Jefferson Branch Library
A presentation on the history of gospel music in Los Angeles given by UCLA ethnomusicologist Dr. Jacqueline Codgell DjeDje.

Tuskegee Airmen Program
Feb 15 Wednesday 4:00-5:00pm, Vernon Branch Library
Learn about the Tuskegee Airmen through books and stories. Free refreshments provided.

Guides on the Underground Railroad
Feb 21 Tuesday 3:30-4:30 pm, Angeles Mesa Branch
Join us for stories and crafts in celebration of African-American History Month! For all children grades K-5.

African Music Performance
Feb 22 Wednesday 4:00-5:00pm, Vernon Branch Library
Join us for a music performance in celebration of African-American History Month.

Science Projects Club:  Experiments Highlighting African American Scientists
Feb 23 Thursday 4:00pm, San Pedro Branch Library
Kids will do hands on science experiments highlighting African-American Scientists.

Home at Last
Feb 28 Tuesday 3:30-4:30 pm, Angeles Mesa Branch
Join us for stories and crafts in celebration of African-American History Month! For all children grades K-5.

HOLLYWOOD AREA

Making History
Feb 17 Friday 3:30-5:00pm, Los Feliz Branch
Making a book celebrating famous African Americans with Laura Stickney, retired instructor, Barnsdall Jr. Arts Center.

NORTHEAST AREA

African Beading
Feb 10 Friday, 4:00-5:00pm, Lincoln Heights Branch
Teens come and learn basic seed beading techniques. 

WEST VALLEY AREA

Film Night - “THE HELP”
Feb 28 Tuesday 7:00-9:30pm, Chatsworth Branch
2011 adaptation of Kathryn Stockett novel about a young white woman and her relationship with two black maids during Civil Rights era in the early ‘60’s.

WESTERN AREA

60 Years of Untold Civil Rights History
Jan 28 Saturday 3:00-4:00pm, Baldwin Hills Branch
Learn from eyewitnesses about the first school to be integrated in the South.  Persevering through dynamite, guns and threats, those in Clinton, TN won.

Celebrate Black History Month with author, Denise Sullivan
Feb 11 Saturday 3:30-4:30pm, Venice-Abbot Kinney Memorial Library
Join us for reading/discussion of 'Keep On Pushing: Black Power Music
from Blues to Hip Hop.' Music performance and student poets of 826LA
(SPARC) follows.  

African Dance & Drum Affair
Feb 21 Tuesday 4:00-5:00pm, Westwood Branch
Take Simba’s journey in “The Lion King” by learning African dances & songs with the rhythms of 20 Djembe drummers!

A Tribute to James Baldwin...25 Years Later!  Featuring Performance Artist Charles Reese
March 1 Thursday 6:00-7:30pm, Playa Vista Branch Library
Enjoy a performance of the late playwright Howard Simon's James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire.  NY Times declared this Off Broadway production “thrilling and wise, buoyed by a passionate performance by Charles Reese.”