Pasadena Black History Month Magazine - February 2023 | Pages 57 & 58
TEENS & ADULTS
LIFT EVERY VOICE: AN EVENING WITH ANGELINE BUTLER, A POWERFUL VOICE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Join us for a conversation about resistance with Angeline Butler, the celebrated singer, actress, playwright, producer, instructor and student organizer for Civil Rights during her teens. She was one of the first students to be jailed for their nonviolent resistance. Jackie Robinson called her "one of the first 'sit-in' leaders of the Nashville Movement." In 1960, Butler helped organize the Nashville Student Nonviolent Central Committee along with Marion Barry, Jr. and John Lewis. She was also a student advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. and an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Beyond her work as an activist, Butler's career as a singer and actor spanned many decades, and over seven countries. She is currently a lecturer in Africana Studies at the John Jay College for Criminal Justice in New York. She will be joining us on Zoom, but you can view her talk on a big screen at Hastings Branch Library. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. To attend on Zoom, sign up at https://pasadena.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=7298
Thursday, Feb. 16 .6 p.m.. Zoom & Hastings Branch Library, 3325 E. Orange Grove Blvd.
QUILT BLOCK PORTRAITS
In honor of Black History Month, make a quilt block portrait in celebration of the Quilting Women of Gee's Bend Alabama. Fabric, fusible web and other materials will be utilized. For inspiration, bring a reference photo of your favorite pet, person or subject. Materials provided by REMAINDERS Creative Reuse, an upcycle depot focused on sustainability and reuse of creative materials. For ages 13+. To sign up call (626) 744-7272.
Saturday Feb. 18 • 2:30 p.m.. Santa Catalina Branch Library, 999 E. Washington Blvd.
TONI ANN JOHNSON: LIGHT SKIN GONE TO WASTE: STORIES
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, author Toni Ann Johnson draws from experiences with racism and bad parenting in a new short story collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste. This is Johnson's third publication. Her novella Homegoing was a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner Wisdom Award in fiction. Remedy For a Broken Angel earned Johnson a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. To attend, sign up at https://pasadena.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId-7124.
Wednesday, Feb. 22 • 5 p.m. • Zoom
KIMBERLY COX MARSHAL: MAKING REVOLUTION: MY LIFE IN THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
Making Revolution is Don Cox's revelatory, even incendiary account of his years in the Black Panther Party. He participated in many peaceful Bay Area civil rights protests but hungered for more militant action. His book tells the story of his work as the party's field marshal in charge of gunrunning to planning armed attacks—tales which are told for the first time in this remarkable memoir. Cox wrote these unrepentant recollections in the early 1980s while living in exile in France, enjoining his daughter, Kimberly to promise him that she would do everything she could to have them published. Kimberly will join us in-person to talk about her father and his life in the Black Panther Party. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Friday, Feb. 24 • 5 p.m. • Hastings Branch Library, 3325 E. Orange Grove Blvd.
BEYOND THE BOOK - PPL'S BOOK GROUPS
We offer in-person and virtual formats that allow you to keep in contact with fellow book lovers as you discuss new books together.
HILL AVENUE BOOK CLUB
In February, we will celebrate Black History Month by discussing two books about Belle da Costa Green: The Personal librarian by Marie Benedict and Belle Greene by Alexandra La Pierre. To attend, sign up at hups://pasadena.evancedinfo/signup/EventDetails?EventId=7311.
Saturday, Feb. 11 • 10:30 a.m. • zoom
ALLENDALE BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
In celebration of Black History Month will discuss Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward.
Saturday, Feb. 18 • 10:30 a.m. • Allendale Branch Library, 1130 S. Marengo Ave.
WEST PASADENA BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
We will meet to discuss The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton in celebration of Black History Month.
Saturday, Feb. 18 • 11 a.m. • Linda Vista Branch Library, 1281 Bryant St