Black History Month Book Drive
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For Immediate Release:
In Honor Of Black History Month -- consider donating a book, or books through the:
URBAN/STREET LITERATURE
(and other contemporary black genres)
BOOK DRIVE
During the Month of December, bring your gently used (or new if you are feeling really generous) Urban/Street lit books (or other books of the contemporary black genres) to the COLOR BOOK GALLERY, 6353 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia. Also while there, make sure to check out the wonderful selection of children's book in the neighborhood's only bilingual, cultural & educational children's bookstore and cultural showcase.
Book
donations benefit Books Through Bars, which is a collective
library that sends free books to prisoners based upon their requests.
Among the thousands of request the library fills every year, urban
fiction (street lit) and other contemporary black fiction genres
(including authors such as but not exclusive to: Zane, Terry
McMillan, Bebe Moore Campbell, Walter Moseley, Omar Tyree, E. Lynn
Harris, etc...), are both the most requested books from inmates and
the hardest genres to keep on the Book Through Bars shelves. Hence
the objective here. Anyway, all donations through Books through Bars
are tax-deductible.
Although the primary focus of this book drive is urban lit and other contemporary black genres, donations of the following gently used books will also be accepted:
PAPERBACK dictionaries, thesauri
Law books: Black’s Law Dictionary, current PA law, current Federal law
How to draw: general/basics, people, animals (drawing/art magazines welcome too)
How to draw cartoons and comics
Basic math and reading
GED and ESL study guides, text books
High school textbooks (all subjects)
Vocational books: electrical, plumbing, construction, etc.
How to start a business (commercial, small, nonprofit)
Car, motorcycle: general, maintenance
Popular comics: Superman, Batman, etc.
Puzzles, Sudoku, word games, cross words
Drug and alcohol addiction, recovery
College textbooks (intro level)
Spirituality, yoga and meditation
Parenting skills, relationships
All that you touch, you Change.
All that you Change, Changes you.
The only lasting truth is Change.
God is Change.
-Earthseed, the Books of the Living
(Octavia E. Butler, The Parables of the Sower)