Embedded Files
From May 28, 2024 - June 4, 2024, Ms. Afrika Abney provided services for The 4th Annual Teach Truth Day of Action with Author Carolivia Herron. Information about the event was posted widely on social media and sent via email to schools, community organizations, other businesses, youth and parent groups located in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia. Listed: Afro American Newspapers, Washington Family Magazine, Washington Informer, Anacostia Coordinating Council - ACC, Washington Parent Magazine, and D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice newsletter.
"Carolivia Herron is a retired professor of comparative literature who directs the
EpicCentering the National Mall creative writing program for at risk youth. She is best
known as the author of the children’s book Nappy Hair. She is a speaker with the Pen
Faulkner Writers in Schools program, an African American Jew, and an active member
of Tifereth Israel of Washington, DC."
About the event:
Jun 08, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Washington, 3660 Alabama Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020, USA
Join Esther Productions Inc., The Spoken Word and Francis Gregory Neighborhood Library as we co-sponsor the 4th Annual Teach Truth Day of Action, a Zinn Education Project, coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.
Come stand with Esther Productions Inc. The Spoken Word and the Francis Gregory against banning books and preventing the teaching of history.
Come hear Author Carolivia Herron read and discuss her book "Nappy Hair," which is banned in New York. Learn more about banned books and the anti-history movement advanced by certain states and organizations in the United States.
Bring your favorite banned book to share with others. Tell us why you believe Teaching Truth is important.
Take the pledge to teach truth and to protect our history.
Other banned books will be given away as door prizes, including several copies of Herron's "Nappy Hair."
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse