Events for June 18, 2023

Children and their parents can see and interact with historical documents at Liberation Station, Raleigh's first Black-owned children’s bookstore. Those include handwritten letters between Frederick Douglass and a Baltimore bookstore owner as well as first edition signed copies of banned books by such authors as James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal…

Learn about the Third Ward, one of Raleigh’s historic Black neighborhoods. This tour is free but registration is required. Meeting at the Pope House Museum. One-hour tours begin at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.