National Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept 15 - Oct 15

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with these great reads located at Bluford Library.

• Allende, I. (1985). Casa Del Los Espiritus/ The House of Spirits. New York, NY: Bantam Books. A&T STACKS PQ8090.1.L54 C313 1986
• Castro, R. (2009). Adversity is my angel: The Life and Career of Raul H. Castro. FortWorth, Tx: TCU Press. A&T STACKS F815.3.C37 A3 2009
• Jimenez Roman, M., Juan Flores. (2010). The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. A&T Stacks E185.615 .A37 2010
• Simeon-Jones, K. (2010). Literary and sociopolitical writings of the Black Diaspora in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Location: A&T STACKS DT16.5 .S56 2010
• US Department of Labor (2011). The Hispanic Labor Force in the recovery. Washington, DC. available online

Check out this video of Coretta Scott King speaking in support of the Farmworkers Movement in 1972

courtesy of National Farm Worker Service Center

Where's Lunch & Literature?!

Where's Lunch & Literature?! We're busy here at Bluford Library welcoming our new Dean Vicki Coleman. Once our calendar is confirmed for the academic year, you'll be the first to know.

While you are waiting for our next book selection:

• 9/22 @ 4pm: Visit the NC A&T State University General Classroom Auditorium. Dr. Myrtle Boykin Sampson, author of “Crazy Lady: Achieving Against the Odds” will be book signing. This event is hosted by the University Bookstore. For more information call 336.334.7593.

• 9/28 @ 7pm: Visit the Central Library of Greensboro. New York Times Best Selling Author Sharyn McCrumb will be reading and signing her latest book The Ballad of Tom Dooley. For more information call 336-373-3617

• 10/2 @ 11am: CNN news anchor Soledad O'Brien will be the Founder's Day Speaker at Bennett College. In Fall 2010, O'Brien released The Next Big Story: My Journey Through The Land of Possibilities. For more information, call 336-517-2100