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11th annual literacy festival

The gloomy sky didn’t deter eventgoers from the 11th annual James Weldon Johnson Community Library Literacy Festival, sponsored by the Friends of James Weldon Johnson Library on Saturday, March 18. BY RAVEN JOY SHONEL, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - The gloomy sky didn’t deter eventgoers from the 11th annual James Weldon Johnson Community Library Literacy […]

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