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2. Celebrate! Maya Project presents “Conversations: 50 Years of Memories in Lafayette County, the Place Maya Angelou Called Home”
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1. Downtown Little Rock Neighborhood Association Hosts Its Vaccination Clinic for Covid-19 & Flu
2. Celebrate! Maya Project presents “Conversations: 50 Years of Memories in Lafayette County, the Place Maya Angelou Called Home”
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Celebrate! Maya Project presents “Conversations: 50 Years of Memories
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LITTLE ROCK — The Celebrate! Maya Project will close out its 2021 activities with a virtual public program called “Conversations: 50 Years of Memories in Lafayette County, the Place Maya Angelou Called Home.” The public program will be held at 6 p.m. Oct. 28 through Zoom. It will include stories, memories, historical photography, and literary and poetry recitals by Lafayette County youth.
Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, with her grandmother Annie Johnson and her Uncle Willie Johnson. Her award-winning memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” documents much of her coming-of-age experiences during that time.
The Celebrate! Maya Project’s Lafayette County Oral History Project is funded by the Arkansas Humanities Council’s African American History and Culture grants. The project includes interviews with a diverse group of participants including former Lafayette County residents and descendants of former residents who share their memories of growing up, residing or spending quality time in Lafayette County.
“The oral history project was a wonderful experience and a great opportunity to document the county’s rich history with the rest of the state,” said Janis F. Kearney, president and founder of the Celebrate! Maya Project. “We were specifically interested in stories that spanned the years between 1900-50, about the men, women, organizations, schools and industries that helped shape this extraordinary Arkansas county.”
About the Celebrate! Maya Project
The Celebrate! Maya Project is a statewide 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is “to help honor and promote the inclusive literacy, creativity and social consciousness of the life and work of artist and activist Dr. Maya Angelou.” For more information about the Celebrate! Maya Project, visit celebratemayaproject.org.
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9. The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission Hosts Its 2022 Martin Luther King Day Central Arkansas Essay Contest
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