Celebrate Kwanzaa at the Pratt Library

Posted on by Meghan McCorkell

Join Charles Dugger as he presents the principles of Kwanzaa at 15 Pratt locations throughout December. 

Kwanzaa begins December 26th and lasts until January 1st. The celebrated is center on seven guiding principles known as the Nguzo Saba:

  1. unity (in Swahili, umoja)
  2. self-determination (kujichagulia),
  3. collective work and responsibility (ujima),
  4. purpose (nia)
  5. creativity (kuumba)
  6. faith (imani)
  7. collective economics (ujamaa)

Register Now for Booklovers’ Breakfast

Posted on by Meghan McCorkell

Booklovers’ Breakfast 2018 Featuring April Ryan

Saturday, February 3, 2018

8:30am-Noon

Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel

700 Aliceanna St

Admission: $50 Per Person; Table of 10: $450

Join us for this year’s Booklovers’ Breakfast, featuring April Ryan.  Since 1997, April Ryan has served as a White House correspondent and is the Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks.  She is the author of The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America and At Mama’s Knee. In 2017, she joined CNN as a political analyst, and in May 2017 the National Association of Black Journalists named Ryan “Journalist of the Year”. 

Advanced registration is required.  Registration begins today, December 4 and ends January 30, 2018. For more information, call 410-396-5494