The Read-In was held on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the College of DuPage Library Alcove and featured over 20 readers from the COD community.
You can listen to selections from this year's COD African American Read-In as aired on Sunday, February 9th on WDCB's program First Light. Visit www.wdcbfirstlight.org/news/2020/2/9/cods-annual-african-american-read-in
2020 African American Read-In Bibliography
Angelou, Maya. Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer. Random House, 2006.
Brooks, Gwendolyn. To Disembark. Third World Press, 1981.
Burroughs, Margaret Taylor. What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black? Cultural Fund, 1992.
Burton, Art T. Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves. U of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed. Take Root Media, 2010.
Gaines, Ernest J. Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays. Knopf, 2005.
Hampton, Fred. “People Have to Have the Power,” in Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal, edited by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. Vintage Books, 1990.
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. One World, 2019.
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse, Asha Bandele, and Angela Y. Davis. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Morrison, Toni. Nobel Lecture. The Nobel Prize, 1993. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/lecture
Perry, Imani. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons. Beacon Press, 2019.
Shakur, Tupac. The Rose that Grew from Concrete. Simon and Schuster, 2009.
Smith, Tracy K. Wade in the Water. Graywolf Press, 2018.
Woodfox, Albert, and Leslie George. Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. Grove Press, 2019.
2020 Read-In Schedule
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10 a.m. |
Jennifer Kelley - Welcome |
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10:05 |
Deborah Adelman - Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry |
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10:15 |
Dennis Emano - When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors |
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10:25 |
Robert Dixon-Kolar - Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith |
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10:35 |
Brian O’Keefe - Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves by Art T. Burton |
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10:45 |
Sam Mitrani - Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement by Albert Woodfox |
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10:55 |
Dan Bindert - Mozart and Leadbelly by Ernest J. Gaines |
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11:05 |
Shaheen Chowdhury - “Let it Be Known” and “I’m a Woman” by Margaret Burroughs and “Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth |
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11:15 |
Amy Camp - Various lyrics by Prince |
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11:25 |
Kristin Bailey - Nobel Prize Lecture by Toni Morrison |
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11:35 |
Ken Orenic - “The People Have to Have the Power” by Fred Hampton |
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11:45 |
Devin Chambers - The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur |
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11:55 |
Dana Thompson - “Continue” by Maya Angelou |
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12:05 |
Robert Moorehead - How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi |
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12:15 |
David Swope - Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm |
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12:25 |
Jamari McElroy - “To Black Women” by Gwendolyn Brooks |
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12:35 |
Manuel Nartey - “War” by Manuel Nartey |
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12:45 |
David Coppins - “I, Too” by Langston Hughes |
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12:55 |
Thank you! |