On February 2nd and 3rd, there will be a National African American Read-in Chain. Join the chain to promote literacy during Black History Month. For more information, call: (217) 278-3635 or visit
http://www.ncte.org
On Februrary 3rd, Black museums and colleges nationwide will be featuring a photographic tribute to nine African American AIDS activists, called
"Heroes in the Struggle". For more information, call (213) 353-3610 or visit
http://www.blackaids.org
The Underground Railroad educational site at
http://www.nationalgeographic.com has an interactive section that lets you click on the choices that slaves would have faced on the plantation or on the run.
February 15th through 18th, in Anaheim, California, there will be a National Youth Summit on Preventing Violence. To learn how to help deter youth violence, or to learn more about the conference, call (202) 261-4165 or visit:
http://www.ncpc.org/summit
The Art of African Women: Empowering Traditions display of pottery, weaving, and handicrafts is at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture through March 30th. For more information, call (212) 491-2200.
The Pope House Museum in Raleigh, NC was the home of a free Black Man who was the first lieutenant in an all-black regiment in the Spanish American War. (919) 833-4633 or
http://www.thepopehousemuseum.org for more information.
In bookstores right now: Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due....also: Rock My Soul by Bell Hooks and Separate, but Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson.