A free public event, We, too, Sing America, sponsored by Northern Kentucky University and the Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement will be held at the Cincinnati Art Museum on April 11.
The literary event will feature Ann Hagedorn, a narrative nonfiction author, Frank X. Walker, Affrilachian poet, Sheila Williams, novelist, and Kathy Y. Wilson, a columnist and commentator. It will be moderated by Kristine Yobe, NKU English professor.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the program runs from 6:45-8:30 p.m.
The museum is located at 953 Eden Park in Cincinnati. Parking is free in the museum’s lot.
Admission is free but reservations are requested. Click the image below to make reservations.
The title is a homage to a Langston Hughes’ poem which begins, “I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother.”
The words remind us that the African-American story is indispensable to America’s story. Remove it and the story is a remnant, not a whole cloth.
