Fifth Annual African-American Read-In (Feb. 25) | Shively Library, Louisville Free Public Library | 3920 Dixie Highway | lfpl.org/events | Free | 6:30-8 p.m.
All too often African-American artists and leaders are overlooked for their white contemporaries. This is a chance to recognize the work of black luminaries with dramatic readings and performances of their art by Louisville creatives.
Oh Freedom! Concert (Feb. 26)
Carnegie Center for Art & History
201 E. Spring St., New Albany | carnegiecenter.org | Free (registration required) | 6 p.m.
Members of the Kentucky Opera will take you through a vocal history of black music: from the songs of West Africa to the emotional anthems that inspired the civil rights movement. It’s a taste of what’s to come in 2019 as the Carnegie Center kicks off a year of interpreting African-American history through the arts.