Book talk and celebration for Ibram X. Kendi

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History kicks off its Black History Month Program Thursday, February, from 5:00 to 7:00PM with the #1 New York Times bestselling author and scholar Ibram X. Kendi. Along with President and CEO Neil Barclay he will discuss his adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon. This adaptation gives young readers an introduction the true-life story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade, who was abducted from Africa on the last “Black Cargo” ship to arrive in the United States.