Below are the virtual read alongs featuring African American parents, community members, staff and volunteer readers from La Crosse area.
Giant Steps to Change the World
Read by Michelle Belnavis, creator of Read Your Heart Out
All Are Welcome
Read by Vanusa Aponte, parent of Arianna, Kira, and Guinevere
Stella's Stellar Hair
Read by Paris Moore
I am Perfectly Designed
Read by Paris Moore
All Are Welcome
Read by Paris Moore
I Am Enough
Read by Reuben Cephas
Destined to Be Me: For Boys
Read by Jazzma Holland
Jesse Owens by Jane Sutecliffe
Aariah McCoy, former Hintgen student
New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer
Amaya Emler, former Hintgen student
Swing Sisters by Karen Deans
Ashlyn Troyanek, former Hintgen student
Skin like Mine
Read by Nick Williams, former Hintgen student
Happy Birthday Martin Luther King Jr.
Read by Paris Moore, Hintgen Staff
Hair Love
Read by Reuben, YMCA Director
My People
Read by Dodie, teacher and
Calvin, Civil Rights Activist & professor
I am (Positive Affirmations for Brown Boys)
Read by Shaundel Spivey, Director of B.L.A.C.K.
I am Enough
Read by Michelle Belnavis, creator of Read Your Heart Out
All Are Welcome
Read by Karter Etchin
Ambitious Girl
Read by Walfsty Pierre, La Crosse School District Staff
The Story of Rap
Read by Quartell Roberson, District Cultural Liaison
My Puppy Poet and Me
Read by Fred Williams
The Princess and the Pea
Read by a UWL Basketball Player
Lola at the Library
Read by Antoiwana Williams, UWL Professor
Stop that Yawn
Read by Craig Steele,
Sulwe
Read by UWL Student
Juneteenth
Read by Mario, Central Student
Rocket says Look Up
Read by Melissa Hawkins, La Crosse High School Student
Visiting Langston
Read by Lieutenant Governor Mendela Barnes