Fern Gillespie Communications

The American Library in Paris Presents Zoom Black History Month Discussion on American Runaway with Author Audrey Edwards and Richard Wright's Granddaughter Ellen Wright-Hervé on February 15

Due to COVID Restrictions. the 2021 group reading of Frederick Douglass' speech, What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?, was taped for Martha's Vineyard Public TV broadcast. Inkwell Beach event is cancelled.

"A Generation Found: Precious Pearls of Wisdom" is a beautifully photographed coffee table book by writer-photographer Roohee Marshall that's dedicated to the wit and achievements of Black seniors.

New Federal Theatre Alumni Glynn Turman, Barbara Montgomery, Pauletta Washington, Roscoe Orman, Ebony Jo Ann, Roscoe Orman and La Tanya Richardson Jackson are featured.

Green STEM events to be held for youth and families at Magnolia Tree Earth Center, one the oldest nonprofits dedicated to urban ecology education in the African American community. It's site of NYC's historic 134-year-old Magnolia Grandiflora tree.

Applications Available for a Parent and Child to Attend a Creative July 4th Week at Renaissance House Retreat in Martha's Vineyard Courtesy of a Scholarship from the Sustainable Arts Foundation

Abigail McGrath, founder of Renaissance House Retreat for Writers & Artists in Martha's Vineyard, Invites People of All Ages to Participate in Free Annual Reading of Frederick Douglass' Landmark Speech "What Does Fourth of July Mean to the Negro?"

Applications are being accepted for July through September 2018. The retreat was founded by Abigail McGrath and sponsored by Helene Johnson and Dorothy West Foundation in Oak Bluffs. It's designed for writers of color and writers of social justice.

In Spring 2018 Issue of Crisis Magazine:William Lucy, NAACP Board Member and Union Leader, Recalls Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike; Randall Woodfin, 36 year-old Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama and Zoe Terry, Founder of a Black Doll Nonprofit at Age 11

The late Diane Straus Tucker, president-publisher of Washington Monthly and American Prospect, was an active board member of NAACP's The Crisis, the oldest continually published African American magazine in the USA, founded in 1910 by W.E.B. DuBois