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5 Picture Books Celebrating California Foodies
California Nouns: People, Places, and Things
California Food Culture
Interview With an Author: Andrea Hairston
Andrea Hairston is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She is the author of Mindscape, shortlisted for the Phillip K. Dick and Otherwise awards, and winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award.
Julia Perry - American Neoclassicist
Julia Perry (1924-1979) was an American composer of African descent who had remarkable success in Europe and the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s. She made an international impression with her Stabat Mater, composed in 1951, and her Short Piece for Orchestra the following year.
Congressman John Lewis: Civil Rights Leader and Trailblazer
John Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama, the third oldest son of ten children. His father was a tenant farmer, while his mother earned extra money doing housework for other families.
Big Trees, Big Hearts: 5 Picture Books about Redwoods & Sequoias
California Nouns: People, Places, and Things
Big Trees
Celebrate African American History Month With Great Music on hoopla and Freegal
February is African American History Month, but every month is a good month to celebrate African American history and culture, and what better place to do so than your local library!
Interview With an Author: Eliza Reid
Eliza Reid is a journalist, editor, and co-founder of the annual Iceland Writers Retreat. Eliza grew up on a hobby farm near Ottawa, Canada, and moved to Iceland in 2003, five years after winning a student raffle for a date with the man who later became her husband. That husband, Fudni Th.
African American History Month Coloring Pages
In order to showcase the technology available in the Octavia Lab, celebrate the diversity of Los Angeles, and demonstrate how library resources, such as Tessa, the library's online digital archive, and historical newspaper databases, can be used towards social justice, Octavia Lab staff have been creating
Groundbreaking Films by African-American Directors
For many years it was hard to find and watch many classic and influential films by African-American directors: they were not widely distributed, they were not released on home video, or they were thought to be lost.
