There’s a very cool event coming up the first Saturday in February. It’s the African American Children’s book fair. The authors and illustrators works transcend color. Children, parents and teachers will get a chance to meet Caldecott and Newbury Award winning authors and illustrators and there are free books especially for educators as well as the opportunity to buy books.
Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with some of the authors featured at the African American Children’s Book Fair along with its founder Vanesse Lloyd Sgambati.

http://theafricanamericanchildrensbookproject.org/

We all want to do what we can to move the needle when it comes to poverty in Philadelphia. Loraine believes strongly that getting kids reading at grade level will help in that because. There are a lot of people who feel passionately about this issue. She speaks to AJ Jordon from Wells Fargo who originally came from the nonprofit world but is now in a position in the corporate world to truly make a difference.
http://readby4th.org/
http://theafricanamericanchildrensbookproject.org/

There’s a very cool event coming up the first Saturday in February. It’s the African American Children’s book fair. The authors and illustrators works transcend color. Children, parents and teachers will get a chance to meet Caldecott and Newbury Award winning authors and illustrators and there are free books especially for educators as well as the opportunity to buy books.
Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with some of the authors featured at the African American Children’s Book Fair along with its founder Vanesse Lloyd Sgambati.

http://theafricanamericanchildrensbookproject.org/

But first we all want to do what we can to move the needle when it comes to poverty in Philadelphia. Loraine believes strongly that getting kids reading at grade level will help in that because. There are a lot of people who feel passionately about this issue including AJ Jordon from Wells Fargo who originally came from the nonprofit world but is now in a position in the corporate world to truly make a difference.
http://readby4th.org/

Loraine Ballard Morrill continues her interview with Vanesse Lloyd Sgambati, founder of the African American Children’s Book Fair on February 2nd 1-4 at Community College of Philadelphia along with two of the featured authors, Sharon Draper and Marietta Collins.
http://theafricanamericanchildrensbookproject.org/

First - we all want to do what we can to move the needle when it comes to poverty in Philadelphia. Loraine believes getting kids reading at grade level will help move that mission forward. There are a lot of people who feel passionately about this issue. Loraine speaks to Aldustus Jordon from Wells Fargo who originally came from the nonprofit world but is now in a position in the corporate world to truly make a difference.
http://readby4th.org/

Loraine Ballard Morrill interviews authors Kwame Alexander and T.R. Simon who’ll be featured at the 2019 African American children’s Book Fair February 2nd from 1-4 at Community College of Philadelphia along with founder Vanesse Lloyd Sgambati in part one of a two part interviews.
http://theafricanamericanchildrensbookproject.org/

January 21st is the day the nation celebrates the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In addition to the Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service - https://mlkdayofservice.org/.
There is a whole weekend of events at the African American Museum In Philadelphia. Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with Patricia Wilson Aden, President and CEO of AAMP and Dan Fitzpatrick President of Citizens Bank which is a major sponsor about the events happening at during MLK Weekend at AAMP. https://www.aampmuseum.org/

Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with Jane Golden, Executive Director of Mural Arts Philadelphia and mural artist Felix St. Fort about the resurrection of a 30 year old Stop the Violence Mural that was torn down because of redevelopment but resurrected and re-imagined after the community protested. The two talk about the mural’s history and ways community volunteers be a part of repainting the work on the MLK Holiday.

https://www.muralarts.org/events/paint-day-a-memory-of-the-future/

January 21st is the day the nation celebrates the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In addition to the Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service - https://mlkdayofservice.org/.
There is a whole weekend of events at the African American Museum In Philadelphia. Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with Patricia Wilson Aden, President and CEO of AAMP and Dan Fitzpatrick President of Citizens Bank which is a major sponsor about the events happening at during MLK Weekend at AAMP. https://www.aampmuseum.org/

Loraine also speaks with Jane Golden, Executive Director of Mural Arts Philadelphia and mural artist Felix St. Fort about the resurrection of a 30 year old Stop the Violence Mural that was torn down because of redevelopment but resurrected and reimagined after the community protested. The two talk about the mural’s history and ways community volunteers be a part of repainting the work on the MLK Holiday.

https://www.muralarts.org/events/paint-day-a-memory-of-the-future/

January 21st is the day the nation celebrates the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In addition to the Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service - https://mlkdayofservice.org/.
There is a whole weekend of events at the African American Museum In Philadelphia. Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with Patricia Wilson Aden, President and CEO of AAMP and Dan Fitzpatrick President of Citizens Bank which is a major sponsor about the events happening at during MLK Weekend at AAMP. https://www.aampmuseum.org/

Loraine also speaks with Jane Golden, Executive Director of Mural Arts Philadelphia and mural artist Felix St. Fort about the resurrection of a 30 year old Stop the Violence Mural that was torn down because of redevelopment but resurrected and reimagined after the community protested. The two talk about the mural’s history and ways community volunteers be a part of repainting the work on the MLK Holiday.

https://www.muralarts.org/events/paint-day-a-memory-of-the-future/

Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with Reverend Gregory Holston, Executive Director of POWER –which represents over 50 congregations in Southeastern and Central Pennsylvania. “We are people of faith committed to the work of bringing about justice here and now.” The organization is holding MLK Day Teach-In & Rally
VenueBible Way Baptist
Address1323 N. 52nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19131, US
StartsMon Jan 21 2019, 1:00pm
EndsMon Jan 21 2019, 3:00pm
https://powerinterfaith.org/