Apr 11, 2019
The following is a quick message delivered on behalf of our friends at Liberation Through Reading.
They have an event coming up in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, April 13th at the A-Space (4722 Baltimore Avenue) from 12PM-4PM, gifting Black children with free Black books. Details are below.
Contact Erica Caines at ericacaines@gmail.com
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In almost 2 years, #LiberationThroughReading has gifted
well over 1000 BRAND NEW representative books to Black children of
all reading levels. Each book gifted features Black characters and
written by Black authors.
After hosting several events in Anne Arundel County, Md and one
with the The Concord Freedom School in Brooklyn, NY, in the summer
of 2018, #LiberationThroughReading has been invited to come to West
Philly to offer the Black children in that community a chance to be
introduced to a wide variety of books featuring people who look
like them, in hopes to encourage a love a literacy.
#LiberationThroughReading gives both children AND parents the
opportunity to engage books.
The initiative encourages parents to nurture a love of reading in
their child and representation in their homes.
We’re bringing it to West Philly next month for the 8th event in
order to have the same conversations with the community to push
literacy by using representation as a tool that fosters both pride
in heritage and love of reading!