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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nPRINCESS ANNE, MD – “Dreams From My Father,” a story about race and inheritance by President Barack Obama, is the subject of discussion for the\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
seventh annual African American Read-in on Sunday, February 22, at 3 p.m. in the Henson Center ballroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book discussion, which is open to the public, is the third and final Read-in event for the month.\u00a0 Specialists on race\/single parenting, education and literature will be on hand to discuss important work done in 1995 by the young lawyer who has recently become the 44th<\/sup>\u00a0President of the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On Monday, February 2, Read-in events begin with Super Book Monday II. UMES students are invited to participate in a 24-hour book marathon of sorts. Each student is required to read one hour during the 24 hours to have a chance at winning prizes donated by UMES as well as area businesses. If a student reads for more than an hour, they are eligible to win the grand prize, worth $75. Food will be provided for students during the overnight hours from 1 a.m. until 7:30 a.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Child and Family Development Center children and their parents may visit Bryan Collier, illustrator of the children’s book “Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,” at the UMES Mosely Gallery on Thursday, February 12. Nikki Grimes is the author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1990, the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English held the first African American Read-in. Since then, over a million readers all over the United States and abroad have participated. Annually, readers from all ethnic backgrounds congregate, read and celebrate the many accomplishments of African-American authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information about this year’s African American Read-in events, visit www.umes.edu\/fdl<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ###<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Suzanne Waters Street, director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-621-2355, sstreet@umes.edu<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday, January 29, 2009 PRINCESS ANNE, MD – “Dreams From My Father,” a story about race and inheritance by President Barack Obama, is the subject of discussion for the\u00a0 seventh annual African American Read-in on Sunday, February 22, at 3 p.m. in the Henson Center ballroom. The book discussion, which is open to the public,…Read more Obama’s Bestseller Sparks Discussion<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}