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February 2021
Black History Month events
MEDICAL MARIJUANA SURVEY Participate in a 1-hour interview regarding your understanding of and attitude toward medical marijuana/cannabis and receive a $25 Visa gift card and PA state approved description of the medical marijuana program.
To register, call: 215-596-7636 Questions? Principal Investigator Dr. Andrew Peterson SUDl@usciences.edu
Mural Arts Philadelphia has an exciting lineup of arts and cultural events for Black History Month. Here are just a few of the activities that are coming up. For more information, go to MuralArts.org/events.
Feb. 9 & 23 @ 5:30-6:30 p.m. Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists: A Year in Review The 2020 Fellows discuss their art-making over the past year and for their creative futures.
Feb. 18 @ 5:30-6:30 p.m. Art of Activism: History Doesn’t Have to Repeat Itself History of art and activism within the Black community and empowering Black youth with art.
Feb. 24 @ 6-7 p.m.
cate and inspire you. For more information, go to https://libwww.freelibrary. org/calendar
Feb. 17 @ 7 p.m. Collectors’ Showcase: Philadelphians Collect Black Writers Five local collectors who have spent years preserving and celebrating the work of Black writers and artists share their amazing collections and how they are working to share Black history.
Feb. 18 @ 7:30 p.m. Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America Author Michael Eric Dyson employs the lives and legacies of five Black contemporaries as catalysts for America’s long-needed voyage toward a racial reckoning and redemption.
Black History Month Virtual Tour
Feb. 25 @ 6 p.m.
View murals that represent iconic African American figures and civic heroes of the past and present. Tickets: $15
Black Writers, the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance
The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Black History Month events will edu-
Civil War diaries • continued from page 4
The other side Davis wasn’t the only young Black woman to keep a journal of her experiences during the war. The memoir of Susie King Taylor, “Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers,” complements Emilie Davis’ because King Taylor, freed when she escaped to Union lines, writes about the activities of Black women in the South. “Many people do not know what some … colored women did during the war,”
Take a “Tour Behind the Bookshelf” of letters and first editions of poet Langston Hughes and philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke.
Taylor wrote. “Hundreds of them assisted … Union soldiers by hiding them and helping them escape. Many (Black women) were punished for taking food to the prison stockades for … (Union) prisoners … These things should be kept in history before the people.” * * * For more information about Emilie Davis’ diaries, please see: DavisDiaries. villanova.edu. The diaries can be purchased at Amazon.com/Emilie-Daviss-Civil-War-Philadelphia/dp/0271063688 Native Philadelphian Constance Garcia-Barrio writes about many topics, including Black history.