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July 21, 2016. A concert by the Ingramettes, one of Virginia's premier gospel ensembles. The family Gospel group was founded in the 1960s in Richmond, Virginia by the late Maggie Ingram. This is the group's first performance without her. This performance includes singers Rev. Almeta Ingram-Miller (Ingram's daughter), Cheryl Maroney Beaver (Ingram's granddaughter), Carrie Ann Jackson, and background vocalist LeChelle Johnson. The musicians are Calvin "Kool Aid" Curry (bass), Kenneth Heath (keyboards) and Randall Kort (percussionist). Speaker Biography: For more than five decades, the Ingramettes have been bringing their music and ministry to congregations in the Tidewater and Piedmont areas of Virginia. Their commanding, spirit-filled performances demonstrate the extraordinary depth of talent in American gospel music. For more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7503

Aug. 30, 2014. Jacqueline Woodson appears at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: For her dedication to children and young-adult literature, Jacqueline Woodson received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2006. Woodson is known for exploring important themes in her works, including issues of gender, class, race, family and history. Her picture books, middle-grade and young-adult novels take the reader on an emotional journey by portraying characters in relatable, realistic situations. Woodson has written more than 20 books; some of the most notable include Newbery Honor Medal winners "Show Way," "Feathers," and "After Tupac and D Foster" and the Coretta Scott King Award-winning "Miracle's Boys." "Brown Girl Dreaming," her newest title released this summer, recalls the story of her own childhood as a young African American girl growing up amid the Civil Rights Movement. Written in verse, each poem gives the reader a snapshot of a child's effort to build a strong voice in the world. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6516

Speaker Biography: For 10 years, Jarrett J. Krosoczka has been entertaining young readers with his trademark wit and whimsy. He is the author and illustrator of many popular picture books, including "Punk Farm" (which was a Child Magazine Best Book of the Year and which School Library Journal called "quite a romp"), "Punk Farm on Tour," "Baghead," and "Annie Was Warned." He is also the creator of the "Lunch Lady" graphic novel series, which Kirkus Reviews called "a delightfully fun escapist read." The "Lunch Lady" series has twice won the Children's Choice Book Award in the third-and-fourth-grade category. Jarrett's "Lunch Lady" and "Punk Farm" series are both in development as feature films. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5396.

Larry Minear discusses his book "Through Veterans' Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience," based on interviews culled from the Library of Congress Veterans History Project collection. Speaker Biography: For the past twenty years Larry Minear has worked as a researcher on international and internal armed conflicts, interviewing aid workers, soldiers and local populations in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. Director of the Humanitarianism and War Project at Brown and then at Tufts universities, he is the author, co-author or editor of several dozen research monographs and fourteen books, including (with Ian Smillie) "The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World."