Pasadena Black History Month Magazine - February 2023 | Pages 55 & 56
TEENS & ADULTS
DONZALEIGH ABERNATHY: PARTNERS TO HISTORY: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Reverend Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were inseparable and together helped to establish what would become the modern American Civil Rights Movement. They preached, marched and were frequently jailed together. Domaleigh Abernathy, Ralph's youngest daughter, has written Partners to History as a testament to the courage, strength and endurance of these men who stirred a nation with their moral fortitude. She also pays tribute to the thousands of unsung heroes—the other partners to this history—who were toot soldiers in the endless struggle for freedom, justice and equality. This document captures in words and pictures how the dream of two visionaries (hanged the course of American history.
Saturday, Feb. 4 • 2 p.m. • Lamanda Park Branch Library, 140 S. Altadena Dr.
DISCOVER PASADENA'S SISTER CITY, DAKAR, SENEGAL
Take a joJiney with us to Dakar-Plateau, Senegal, with our guide, Pasadena City Attorney Michele Beal Bagneris, who visited our Sister City on a recent trip focused on reconnecting Africans in the Diaspora with African Americans, specifically in Pasadena. Michele will share stories, photos and videos of her trip to Dakar-Plateau, along with other interesting areas in Senegal. Join us in-person or on Zoom. To attend, sign up at https://pasadena.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=7309. Wednesday, Feb. 8 • 5 p.m. • Zoom & Hastings Branch Library, 3325 E. Orange Grove Blvd.
PASADENA ROSE POETS CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH
We create and share stories of Black lives, even when life takes a deep dive. We are connected to our heritage along a pathway, which strengthens our voices again and again over centuries, years, months, weeks, days, minutes and seconds. This session features poetry by Pasadena Rose Poets Teresa Mei Chuc, Damian, Kate Gale, Hazel Clayton Harrison, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Shahe Mankerian, Toni Mosley, Carla Sameth and Annette Wong. To attend, sign up at https://pasadena.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=7378. Thursday, Feb. 9 • 5 p.m.
• Zoom
NOTABLE BLACK SCIENTIST BUTTONS AND BOOKMARKS
Celebrate the contributions that Black American scientists have made by collecting three commemorative buttons and bookmarks. While supplies last.
Tuesday, Feb. 14 • 10 a.m. • La Pintoresca Branch Library, 1355 N. Raymond Ave.
DR. ALAINA ROBERTS: I'VE BEEN HERE ALL THE WHILE, BLACK FREEDOM ON NATIVE LAND
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule' - the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. To attend, sign up at https://pasadena.evanced.info/signup/EventDetailsEventId=7286. Thursday, Feb. 16 • 4 p.m. • Zoom