Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library

Celebrate Pride and love who you are with a story time with our guest and Drag Artist LeeLee LeBajia!

Please note, this event will take place INSTEAD of our usual Thursday Storytime. Excited to see you there!

Celebrate Pride with us this week by writting Love Letters to Black Queerness and listening to our Special Pride Storytime!

Join us for an evening of celebration, community pride, and love for Black Qu**rs. Enjoy good food, conversation, and contribute to a community love letter display.

Our Summer of Adventure program kicks off today! We're celebrating Colorado's 150th anniversary all summer long, with free events, activities, and prizes. Youth can grab an Adventure Guide at any of our branches or at summerofadventure.org.

We’re celebrating Josephine Baker’s 120th birthday! A singer, actor, dancer, and spy, she did it all. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, and like many other famed African American entertainers, she performed in Denver and stayed in Five Points. From our archives, a photograph of her with Five Points’ legendary photographer Burnis McCloud.

Read with us this summer, and take inspiration from this month's Staff Picks!

Hello June! Celebrate this month of summer and Pride with us at the library!

Let's read together at Storytime this week!

49 years ago today, Blair-Caldwell namesake Omar D. Blair became Denver’s first Black president of the Denver School Board. In addition to our library, Omar Blair has been recognized many times for his legacy as a Tuskegee Airman, social leader, and education advocate who worked to end desegregation in Denver’s schools. We take Omar Blair’s legacy and impact seriously, but we want to celebrate him with this photo that shows a more lighthearted side (he is the one getting pied in this picture). If you’d like to hear more from the legend himself, check out his oral history below.

https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1826266?keywords=omar+blair&highlights=WyJibGFpciwiLCJvbWFyIiwiYmxhaXIiXQ%3D%3D&lsk=e476aebe82ed037272cbad81c838340d

The library will be closed tomorrow, May 25th, for Memorial Day. We hope you have a great holiday, and we'll see you on Tuesday!