Lake Region Public Library: In the News
Celeste Ertelt
NEWS FOR February: The Lake Region Public Library will be starting their book club with Abercrombie Trail on Feb 3 via Zoom. Please see library staff for books and details. Also new book displays honoring Black History Month, All You Need is Love and a Good Book, and Love Gone Wrong.
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (Adult Fiction). Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance .In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli like so many of her neighbors must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life.
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Influential Black Americans nominated these these trailblazers.
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Black History Month has become a time-honored tradition since it was first conceptualized as Negro History Week in 1925 by Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), and first celebrated in 1926. In 1976, honoring the heritage of Black Americans became a month-long celebration, officially recognized in the United States by President Gerald R. Ford.
Now more than ever, February is a time to remember the people who have enriched the community with knowledge, pride and respect. We recognize the contributions, struggles and history of African Americans, and reflect on the idea that Black History is at the heart of American history.Welcome to the first
On Monday,
CBS This Morning happily brought on race-baiting radical Professor Ibram X. Kendi to sell his latest book and mark the beginning of Black History Month. Amazingly, despite having him on for the first time in months since he hurled vile attacks at then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her black adopted children, the hosts never bothered to ask him about his despicable remarks.
At the top of the friendly chat, co-host Anthony Mason made it clear that the only item on the agenda was hawking Kendi’s new book:
Today marks the first day of Black History Month, a time for celebration and education of African-American culture.
Honor and Learn This Black History Month
More than ever, this month is a welcome time for the education and celebration of Black American culture.
Clockwise from left, “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America”; Lakeith Stanfield in “Judas and the Black Messiah ; “One Night in Miami” directed by Regina King; a performance by Sing Harlem choir; and Clover Hope, author of The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop.”Credit.Warner Bros. ( Judas and the Black Messiah ); Patti Perret/Amazon Studios ( One Night in Miami ); Krista Schlueter for The New York Times (Sing Harlem)
By Adrienne Gaffney
Jan. 30, 2021
It’s not an understatement to describe the events of the past year as historic, and particularly for Black Americans. The nation elected its first Black vice president, a woman and a graduate of a historically Black university, and Georgia send its first Black senator to the Capitol. (Both of these realities were possible through the tireless orga
Here are a half-dozen recommended paperbacks, if your bedside table is currently bare.
âThe Magical Language of Othersâ by E.J. Koh
Seattle author Kohâs intergenerational memoir, a recent winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, was inspired by letters written to Koh in Korean by her mother, who left her children behind in California in order to return to South Korea for work.
A reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle described the book as âa wonder: a challenging and deep meditation on how wounds of the past and present inform our relationship with those outside of us, which is to say, everyone.âÂ