Center for Black Literature at Brooklyn Public Library's 'Til Victory is Won
On Saturday, October 26, 2019, the Center for Black Literature at 糖心原创 was among the cultural partners that presented as part of Brooklyn Public Library芒鈧�™s (BPL) Til Victory is Won: 400 Years of Making Revolution and Inventing Utopia, which was BPL芒鈧�™s teach-in to observe the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to Jamestown, Virginia.
The discussion 芒鈧揜epresentations of Enslaved Peoples in Literature芒鈧� featured Dr. Brenda M. Greene, founder and executive director of the Center for Black Literature, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess. Greene and Jess read poems based on the narrative of Henry 芒鈧揃ox芒鈧� Brown, a Virginia slave who escaped to freedom in a box. Additionally, they led a discussion and shared readings from excerpts of historical and contemporary poems and novels that represent the legacy of enslaved people in the United States.