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✨Researcher and Historian✨, Ja’el Gordon will be presenting next month in Pointe Coupee parish. Ja’el is an expert in Antebellum research and history especially in uncovering the stories of the enslaved Africans and African Americans in the United States.

You can also learn more about Ja’el’s amazing work at https://canvasrebel.com/meet-jael-gordon/

The details are on the flier below. 👇

Volunteer opportunity

A nearly 40-mile stretch of Louisiana Highway 1 in Pointe Coupee Parish has been designated the Ernest J. Gaines Memorial Highway in honor of the internationally acclaimed author and University of Louisiana at Lafayette writer-in-residence emeritus.

It represents the latest in a long list of accolades for Gaines, who died in 2019 at age 86, and his fiction, which has been published in many languages, made into movies, claimed prestigious literary awards and earned the writer a commemorative stamp that was issued by U.S. Postal Service.

The location for the memorial highway was selected randomly. It sits near where Gaines was born in 1933, on Riverlake Plantation in Oscar, La. – the region he immortalized in works such as “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and “A Lesson Before Dying.”

Read more online at https://bit.ly/4wOhfb4 and follow The Ernest J. Gaines Center at UL Lafayette on Facebook.

Community Book Center has an opportunity. Take a look!!

Community Book Center & Newcomb Art Museum () is hosting our third cohort of Story Keepers Youth Internship Program. Interested? See details in the flyer! Applications are now open.