Black Writers Museum Events

Grand Discussion

Yale professor and sociologist Elijah Anderson holds a discussion group with University of Pennsylvania graduate students at the Black Writers Museum. Professor Anderson is a "Founding Friend" of the BWM and attended our grand opening in 2010.

"Celebration of Black Poetry"

The Black Writers Museum hosts intergenerational activities that bring together talent and expertise from various segments of the literary community. Here is a photograph of the late and legendary Amiri Baraka, and renowned poet Sonia Sanchez with students from across the Philadelphia region.

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"Celebration of Black Poetry"

A deaf student from New Jersey at the BWM “Celebration of Black Poetry,” signing a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks. His mother interprets.