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3635 W Baseline Rd
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The Spirit of Spirituals: Famous and Stirring Songs of Faith, and their Stories

Cesar Chavez Library 3635 W Baseline Rd, Laveen Village, AZ, United States

People the world over express Divine Devotion through humbly coming together and creating blessed sounds, blending their energies and hearts to help bridge that sometimes narrow, sometimes great, divide between us, as temporal beings, and the Infinite. One example of this bridge is African American sacred music: Negro Spirituals, and the Gospel tradition. Many have […]

A Story, A Story: African and African American Oral Tradition and Storytelling (Phoenix)

Cesar Chavez Library 3635 W Baseline Rd, Laveen Village, AZ, United States

When the African slave was brought to the Caribbean and North and South America, s/he brought her oral literature and performance style. This presentation focuses on the transfer of those oral traditions from African culture to African American culture. Such traditions can be heard in trickster stories, but also observed in the narration of myths, […]

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African American Pioneers of Arizona – Phoenix

Cesar Chavez Library 3635 W Baseline Rd, Laveen Village, AZ, United States

Featuring compelling documentaries based on interviews, this presentation shares stories about prominent African Americans who contributed to the life and culture of Arizona.  Such luminaries include the late Dr. Eugene Grigsby, Betty Fairfax, Judge Jean Williams, Rev. Warren Stewart, Councilman Calvin Goode, and Carol Coles Henry.  Each individual’s life is contextualized using prominent events that […]

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