Threets hosted the first-ever Library Afro Revolution Day earlier this year at the Fairfield Civic Center Library and was ecstatic when he was approached to replicate it at the South Berkeley branch. Library Afro Revolution Day is all about books given away for free, community coming together, celebrating all of us being able to be seen in books and libraries and having a special space, Threets said.
Saturday was very meaningful to patrons and staff alike, library specialist Chinyere Keita, one of the event organizers, wrote in an email. Our Afro Revolution Day was held in a historically Black Berkeley neighborhood, in a library named after Tarea Hall Pittman, who was a civil rights worker, social worker, a leader in the NAACP and community activist.
I am so thankful to Berkeley for wanting to continue my crazy idea and make it a reality here. In the future, I hope they do this every single year, Mychal Threets said.
The library closed a stretch of Russell Street, where there were games, snacks and plenty of books, including some donated by Valerie Thompkins, author of Girls Like Me and Boys Like Me, and Reesa Shayne, who writes children's books.
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