Black Family Expo 2024

Visit the CALS Black History Expo at Pankey Community Center from 11AM to 2PM on Saturday, February 17, 2024. Black History Month giveaways will be happening all day!

Visit the Central Arkansas Library System’s Black History Expo at Pankey Community Center from 11AM to 2PM on Saturday, February 17, 2024, to learn about families with strong ties to Central Arkansas’s Black history, explore the CALS resources available to preserve your own family’s history, and sign up for a library card. Black History Month giveaways will be happening all day, so please stop by and celebrate our community’s Black History with CALS team!

To reserve a table to display your family memorabilia, please call community outreach archivist, Danielle Afsordeh, at 501.320.5726. There will be 10 tables available. Organizations are also welcome to display.

Roberts staff will assist folks digitizing up to five items (family documents, photographs, and slides) at the Mobile Memory Lab station. One flash drive will be provided to each family with the scanned items. Bring your items to the Mobile Memory Lab table at the event. No reservation, required!

Have a souvenir family photo taken between 12 and 2 and take the opportunity to visit our craft table and create a frame for your photo!