Black History Month Programs at the Greensboro Public Library
Black History Month Program: "The Hidden Treasure of Black American Sign Language"
Date: 2/16/2012 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Cost: Free
Location: Benjamin Branch Library
1530 Benjamin Branch Library
Greensboro, North Carolina 27408
This event features Joseph Hill, a graduate of Gallaudet University, who was born deaf. Currently, he coordinates UNCG’s American Sign Language Teacher Licensure program. Hill speaks English, Italian and Italian sign language. He also converses in a waning, but historically and culturally significant language not widely known, Black American Sign Language or Black ASL. Black ASL was developed among deaf African American children, especially in the South, as a distinct form of communication because school segregation kept them apart from their deaf white counterparts.
Hill is part of the Black ASL Project Team that won the National Black Deaf Advocates Andrew Foster Humanitarian Award for 2011. The Black ASL Project aims to describe the linguistic features of a variety of American Sign Language (ASL) used by African American signers, usually known as Black ASL. He is also co-author of the book, The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL, published by Gallaudet University.
Contact Carole Campbell Brown for more information at 336-373-7540.
Black History Month
Ladies Sing the Blues
Date: 2/18/2012 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Cost: Free
Location: Hemphill Branch Library
2301 West Vandalia Road
Greesnboro, North Carolina 27407
Sixteen filmed performances of Bessie Smith, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, and other jazz-blues singers. Contact the branch at 336-373-2925
African American Book Group
Date: 2/18/2012 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Cost: Free
Location: Benjamin Branch Library
1530 Benjamin Parkway
Greensboro, North Carolina 27408
Join us in discussing Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Contact Carole Campbell Brown for more information or to borrow a copy of the book at 336-373-7540.
Black Women in American History & Culture
A Poetic Review & Open Mic
Date: 2/22/2012 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Cost: Free
Location: McGirt-Horton Branch Library
2501 Phillips Ave.
Greensboro, North Carolina 27405
In celebration of Black History Month, teens from the McGirt-Horton Branch Teen Poetry Project will perform original poems and poems written by African American women. During the open mic portion of the program, the audience is asked to share poems about or by African American women. Contact the branch at 336-373-5810.
Black History Month
Great Black Women
Date: 2/22/2012 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Cost: Free Location: Hemphill Branch Library
2301 West Vandalia Road
Greesnboro, North Carolina 27407
This film is about contributions of African American women in politics, entertainment, civil rights, business, and sports, and features Coretta Scott King, Lena Horne, and many others. For more information contact the branch at 336-373-2925.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown: Leading Lady
Date: 2/23/2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Cost: Free
Location: Benjamin Branch Library
1530 Benjamin Parkway
Greensboro, North Carolina 27408
Frachele Scott, site manager of the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum, will give a presentation on Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown in honor of Black History Month and Women's History Month. Brown founded the Palmer Memorial Institute, a unique private school for African Americans located in Sedalia. The museum is North Carolina's first historic site honoring an African American and the state's first historic site honoring a woman. Contact Carole Campbell Brown for more information at 336-373-7540.
Black History Month
When I Rise
Date: 2/28/2012 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Cost: Free
Location: Hemphill Branch Library
2301 West Vandalia Road
Greesnboro, North Carolina 27407
This film is about Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student who became a target of racial discrimination. Transcending her removal from the cast of a student opera, Conrad goes on to become an international opera star. For more information contact the branch at 336-373-2925.