COD Hosts African American Read-In Feb. 6

College of DuPage will join hundreds of colleges, universities, libraries and other organizations Monday, Feb. 6, at the 23rd annual National African American Read-In.

Sponsored by the COD Africa Committee, the National Council of Teachers of English and the Black Caucus of NCTE, the readings will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Resource Center, Room 2800, at the College's Glen Ellyn campus, 425 Fawell Blvd. The event is offered free of charge and reservations are not required.

COD's 2011 event featured more than a dozen presenters. The event, endorsed by the International Reading Association, includes volunteer readers presenting their favorite selections from African American books, essays and poetry collections, as well as brief biological sketches of the authors. Volunteers are needed for this year's program.

The first National African American Read-In was sponsored in 1990 by the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English, with the NCTE offering its support and sponsorship the following year. Previous year's events included more than one million readers from 49 states, the West Indies and several African countries.

For more information, call Cheryl Jackson at (630) 942-3384, e-mail: jacksonc@cod.edu.