East Ramapo Central School District has been celebrating Black History and Black Excellence throughout the month of February. One of the many special events at Kakiat S.T.E.A.M. Academy included in-person visits from two extraordinary and notable young black authors with special ties to the East Ramapo community.  

 

On Thursday, February 24th, Nastasha Pollard read Puffy, a fun children's book she coauthored with Kelechi Onyejiaka about the relationship between a girl and her hair. 

 

Nana Kwame-Adjei-Brenah, an East Ramapo alumni, read from his debut New York Times Best Seller Friday Black, a book about what it is like to be young and black in America. His remarkable debut novel reveals the violence and injustices black people regularly face in this country.