Alice Moore Black Arts & Cultural Center
135 S Pearl Street
The Alice Moore Black Arts and Cultural Center hosts a Conversation & Q&A with Actress and Author Karyn Parsons on Wednesday, March 19 at 7:00 PM. For more information about the Alice Moore Black Arts and Cultural Center, visit alicemoorecenter.org
FROM “FRESH PRINCE” TO SWEET BLACKBERRY PRESS
Karyn Parsons, a multi-talented creative artist, starred as Hilary Banks, Will Smith’s shopping-and-money-obsessed cousin, on the NBC sitcom, "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" from 1990 to 1996.
An author of books for children, she is the founder of Sweet Blackberry, a small press whose mission is to bring little-known stories of Black achievement to young readers. Her middle grade novel, How High the Moon(2019), recounts the challenges of a 12-year-old girl living in the Jim Crow South in 1944. Jacqueline Woodson called it, “historical and timely, captivating, and lovely.”
Her newest book, Clouds Over California (2023), is about a girl coming of age in 1970s Los Angeles, during a time of unrest and social change.
Parsons will spend much of her day visiting with middle school students in Albany.
Major support and funding provided by the Carl E. Touhey Foundation.
