Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Library book fair at Barnes & Noble in White Plains Jan. 15, 2018. T

A Westchester County Press article on how the MLK Library sponsored a Poetry slam at the Slater Center. 

All day Monday, at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Main Street in White Plains, a percent of purchases went to the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Library located at the White Plains Thomas H. Slater Center.

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Free events scheduled throughout the afternoon included musical solos by students of the Senakwami Institute and a special book reading and signing by Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X and author of “Malcolm Little, The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X.”

Youth visiting the library in order to learn about nonviolence.