Marking Black History Month 2014, The Prison Public Memory Project and Staley B. Keith Social Justice Center are sponsoring community readings and dialogues in Hudson, NY in partnership with the Hudson Area Library and REV Coffeehouse. Join the Prison Public Memory Project and Hudson community members to hear, read (out loud), and engage in lively conversation about fascinating characters and events in the history of African-Americans in Hudson and beyond that have happened inside or against the backdrop of prisons. 

Each evening, we will be reading and discussing short selections from books, poems, letters, and documents from the 1800s through the 1970s. 

WHAT: Black History BEYOND BARS: Community Readings & Conversations

WHO: Open to the Public

CHARGE: No charge for admission

WHEN & WHERE:
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

The Hudson Area Library
400 State Street, Hudson, NY

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM - Arts/Entertainment/Sports
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - Activism & Social Justice

AND

Thursday, February 27, 2014
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

REV Coffeehouse
742 Warren St, Hudson, NY

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM - Education & Writing in Prison
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - Child Saving in Hudson & Beyond

Come and participate in one or more of these sessions featuring readings written by and about such well-known figures in Black History as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Satchel Paige, Ruben "Hurricane" Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Claude Brown, and those lesser known figures who nevertheless profoundly shaped black history locally and beyond such as Dr. M.E. Ross, Shirley Wilder, the Honorable Jane Bolin, and Mary Hughes.

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Read more about the event at REV Coffeehouse on the Register-Star's website