Library After Hours: The Roots of Rap to the STEM of Hip Hop with Carol B. Weatherford and Jeffery the artist! !

Feb

12:00am

Library After Hours: The Roots of Rap to the STEM of Hip Hop with Carol B. Weatherford and Jeffery the artist! !

By Charles County Public Library

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Trace rap’s roots in African-American oral traditions and learn about technology you can use to create your own raps.
Join us for another Library After Hours event! Meet the three-time Caldecott Honor and 2021 Newbury Award winning author, multi-talented illustrator, and spoken word artist in an all-in-one presentation. Carole B. Weatherford will deliver a lively presentation tracing rap's roots in African-American oral traditions and Jeffery Weatherford shares techniques and technology you can use to create your own raps.
The event is presented in partnership with the Howard County Library System.
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Carole Boston Weatherford is a New York Times bestselling author
http://cbweatherford.com
her work includes: 
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins
Becoming Billie Holiday
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip Hop
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Freedom in Congo Square

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