Solidifying Our Legacy – A Community Poetry Reading
February 21 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Don’t miss, “Solidifying Our Legacy – A Community Poetry Reading.” Saturday, February 21, 2026 from 7:30PM-9PM. In celebration of African-American History Month 2026, Rockland Center for the Arts, The Gordon Center for Black Culture and Arts, and Shades Repertory Theater will bring together some of the Rockland County’s most distinguished community leaders and actors to read poems and prose by our most historically notable Black literary artists of the past century. Included in the evening will be poems by the first published Black Poet Phyllis Wheatley (1773) with literary works by Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Bennett, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker among others. CLICK HERE for details.
