📚✨ A Celebration of Local Black Authors ✨📚

Join us for an inspiring evening celebrating the power of storytelling, creativity, and community at the Westside Regional Library! 💛✍🏾 Meet and connect with talented local Black authors as they share their journeys, their books,... and what inspires their writing. Discover new reads, enjoy meaningful conversations, and you may even leave with a signed copy!

📍 Westside Regional Library
📅 Friday, February 27
⏰ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

🌟 Featured Authors & Works:
📚 Candy Christophe, LCSW, LAC – You Can Have Both Book & Workbook Series
1️⃣ Ministry – Spiritual Strategic
2️⃣ Business on the Legacy Ladder
3️⃣ Marriage Make It Last
4️⃣ The Adultery Trap

📖 Jamar Gailes – Loving 42

🐶 Anita Watson – My Dog “Chop Chop”

🌬️ Gloria Boyd Williams – Cindy Takes the Wind

📘 Cheron Hollad – The Bully: Carmen & Artela & Snow Day

Come celebrate storytelling, creativity, and community with us! 🎊📚

This special event is a wonderful opportunity to support local voices, celebrate Black literature, and uplift authors who are making an impact right here in our community. 💬📚

📞 For more information, call 318-442-2483

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🌟🚀 Quote of the Day from Dr. Mae Jemison 🚀🌟

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” 💫

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, reminds us to dream boldly, break barriers, and reach beyond what others think is possible. ...👩🏾‍🚀✨

Let her words inspire you to keep learning, exploring, and aiming for the stars! 🌍📚

#MaeJemison #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth #Inspiration #DreamBig #ReachForTheStars #LibraryLearning #STEMStrong 🚀✨📖

🥚🎨 Pysanky Eggs: A Colorful Cultural Experience! 🎨🥚

Get ready to create something truly egg-straordinary! 🌈✨

Join us at the Libuse Branch for a hands-on Pysanky Egg–making class, where tradition, creativity, and culture come together.

📍 Libuse ...Branch
📅 Saturday, February 28
⏰ 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

👧🧑 Open to children ages 10+, teens, and adults!

🎨 Learn the beautiful art of traditional Czech Pysanky egg decorating
🥚 Design and take home your own colorful masterpiece
🌍 Celebrate Czech culture in this fun, interactive workshop

⚠️ Registration is required as space is limited:
👉 https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=295298

👀 Be on the lookout for more dates!
🗓️ Saturday, March 28
🗓️ Saturday, April 25

📍 Same place, same time!

#PysankyEggs #LibuseBranch #CulturalCrafts #EggDecorating #HandsOnArt #LibraryPrograms #RPL #CreativeCommunity #CelebrateCulture 🥚🎨✨

📚🖤✨ Black History Month Spotlight: Langston Hughes ✨🖤📚

This month, we celebrate the life and legacy of Langston Hughes (1901–1967), one of America’s most influential poets, writers, and voices of the Harlem Renaissance. 🎷🖋️

Born in Missouri and rising ...to fame in New York City, Hughes used poetry, plays, novels, and columns to capture the beauty, struggles, and resilience of Black life in America. 🌟

📖 His groundbreaking collection The Weary Blues (1926) helped shape jazz poetry and forever changed American literature.

Hughes didn’t just write—he inspired generations, spoke truth through art, and amplified the voices of his community during the growing Civil Rights Movement. ✊🏽💬

Stop by the library this Black History Month to explore his powerful works and discover the stories that helped shape history. 💙📚

#BlackHistoryMonth #LangstonHughes #HarlemRenaissance #BlackLiterature #PoetryLegend #LibraryReads #CelebrateBlackVoices #RPLReads #HistoryThroughWords 🎷📖✨