23rd National African American Read-In

LaGrange College’s participation in the 23^rd National African American Read-In was a success! The read-in was held Monday, January 20, 2012 in the Dickson Assembly room. Students received cultural enrichment credit for attending. Due to the POWER of men’s basketball (Go, Panthers!), whose entire team was present for the read-in, the college tied our own record for the number of individual readers who participated: 33 persons, 21 of whom are students. The college, and event sponsor and organizer Dr. Laine Scott, would like to "Thank you all for your role in celebrating Black History Month at LaGrange College. You guys made cultural enrichment fun!" In case you’d like to explore some of the many works that were shared, below is a list of the African American writers whose talent was acknowledged at the read-in:

Aaron Power	“Won’t You Celebrate with Me?”	Lucille Clifton
Blake Craft	“The Treehouse”	James A. Emanuel
Blake Craft	“Coal”	Audre Lorde
Blake Craft	“Geometry”	Rita Dove
Britt Gaylor	[quotations]	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Catrell Maclin	“Incident”	Countee Cullen
Charlene Baxter	“My Mother’s Generation”	Alice Walker
Coach Kendal Wallace	[various quotations]	Ali, Hendrix, Malcolm X
Coach Kendal Wallace	“Impossible Is Nothing”	Muhammad Ali
Coach Kendal Wallace	“Run’s House”	Run DMC
Coach Kendal Wallace	[quotation]	Malcolm X
Coach Kendal Wallace	“Light”	Malcolm X
Daron Lewis	“I, Too”	Langston Hughes
Daron Lewis	“I Continue to Dream”	Langston Hughes
Denzel Robinson	“Life Is Fine”	Langston Hughes
Denzel Robinson	“Michael Jackson”	James A. Emanuel
Dr. Arthur Robinson	“Outcast”	Claude McKay
Dr. Christiane Price	“Tableau” and “Reconnaissance”	Arna Bontemps
Dr. Christiane Price	“We Wear the Mask”	Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dr. Christiane Price	“Democracy”	Langston Hughes
Dr. David Garrison	“Leadbelly Gives an Autograph”	Amiri Baraka
Dr. John Tures	“As I Grew Older”	Langston Hughes
Dr. John Williams	excerpt from Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom	August Wilson
Dr. Laine Scott	“Vive Noir!”	Mari Evans
Dr. Laine Scott	“One Thing I Dont Need”	Ntozake Shange
Dustin Baxter	“Walkers with the Dawn”	Langston Hughes
Dustin Baxter	[various quotations]	Michael Jordan
Dustin Baxter	[various quotations]	Muhammad Ali
Grant Evans	“For Poets”	Al Young
Hafner Buchanan	“Gwendolyn Brooks”	Haki Madhubuti
Hafner Buchanan	“Possibilities: Remembering Malcolm X”	Haki Madhubuti
Hafner Buchanan	“The Things in Black Men’s Closets”	E. Ethelbert Miller
Jerod Howard	“Mother to Son”	Langston Hughes
Jerod Howard	“We Real Cool”	Gwendolyn Brooks
Jerod Howard	“Acceptance”	Langston Hughes
Jerod Howard	“Diary”	Wale
Joey Anderkavich	“Dreams”	Langston Hughes
Kenrick Hutson	“Life Every Voice and Sing”	James W. Johnson
Kyron Anderson	“A Song in the Front Yard”	Gwendolyn Brooks
Kyron Anderson	“Beautiful Black Men”	Nikki Giovanni
Marcia Brown	“Heart to Heart”	Rita Dove
Marcia Brown	“Flirtation”	Rita Dove
Marcus Vaughn	“On Being Brought from Africa to America”	Phillis Wheatley
Marcus Vaughn	“Balances”	Nikki Giovanni
Marcus Vaughn	“Ruff Riders Anthem”	DMX
Mark Torre	“No Images”	William Cuney
Mark Torre	“Black Boys Play the Classics”	Toi Derricotte
Megan McDonald	excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
Megan McDonald	“Bitter Fruit of the Tree”	Sterling Brown
Megan McDonald	“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”	Maya Angelou
Michael Thomas	“Mother to Son”	Langston Hughes
Nicholas Mitchell	“A Dream Deferred”	Langston Hughes
Nicholas Mitchell	“Dualism”	Ralph Ellison
Rachel Evans	“Before You Know You Owned It”	Alice Walker
Robin Dillon	“Georgia Dusk”	Langston Hughes
Rodarius Houston	“A Choice”	Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ross O’Hara	“Theology”	Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sanders Dorough	“I Dream a World”	Langston Hughes
Sanders Dorough	“Alameda Street”	Douglas Kearney
Shanise Fisher	“When Black People Are”	A. B. Spellman
Shanise Fisher	“Madam and Her Madam”	Langston Hughes

*Image courtesy of Kville Library Blog.

Blog post authored by Rachel Evans.