For five years, Kindred, a group of Pima County Library employees, has worked to reach, support and celebrate Tucson's Black community.
A little more than five years ago, Kindred co-founders Tenecia Phillips and Dana Moore had an idea: what if there was a group of Black staff at Pima County Public Library whose goal was not only to provide dedicated outreach to the library’s external and internal communities, but also to try to build up the presence of Black library staff — both by helping to increase the numbers and by offering mentorship, guidance and community to a core group of people willing to do the work.
People are also reading… Since then, members have come and gone, but the core mission has remained the same: to reach, support and celebrate the Black community.From the start, the primary goals were external. Events were coordinated at library branches across Pima County, but we also tried to go out into the community.
When the pandemic lockdown hit in March 2020, Kindred had been planning a new endeavor. A quarterly book club was born out of questions at those OBOC conversations in which so many people wanted to be able to come back to the table and discuss books by Black authors about all kinds of topics. Our plan had been to share out several titles on a theme, much like the Rainbow Reads Book Club does on odd months.
As we look forward to the next five years, I hope we’ll be able to continue to have those life-changing book events we’ve had, whether it was hosting book discussions or sponsoring a discussion with a local scholar at the Tucson Festival of Books. We’ll keep working on internal goals, including mentoring new Black staff and providing resources to veteran staff. But I hope we also continue to get to do projects like our most recent, Our Story: A Communities of Color Curation Project.
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