Black History is More than a Month at the Oak Park Public Library

Oak Park, IL - This February, the Oak Park Public Library is marking Black History Month by kicking off a new programming series to celebrate the black experience all year long.

Through its new series, More Than a Month, the library is moving beyond dedicating a single month to black history and achievement.

More Than a Month is the library’s new health, wellness, and black aesthetics-focused exploration of the African diaspora and its imprint on the contemporary black experience across cultures and continents.

The series kicks off Feb. 7 with a screening of a documentary by the same name — “More Than a Month,” a first-person narrative of one filmmaker’s quest to understand the implications of Black History Month. For more about this film, visit morethanamonth.org.

Upcoming events at the Main Library this spring include a Natural Hair Meet-Up, book discussions of “Black Man in a White Coat” and “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” and Zumba workouts with instructors from Oak Park’s BFit Fitness Center.

Find more at oppl.org/about/library-news/more-month.

Submitted by the Oak Park Public Library. Photo: an image featuring a shot of the library’s Kehinde Wiley painting on the third floor. For more about this painting, see oppl.org/events/art-library/permanent-collections.