Inspire With Angela

Youth Black Excellence Month
2025-05-01 - 2025-05-31 | AR
If you know me by now, I dont wait until a “holiday,” on the calendar to make an event that inspires me! This is our youth black excellence month, where I highlight the excellence that already exists. If you have a youth that you would like to be shouted out on my FB page, please email me with a few pieces of information:

Name/photo (if desired)
Grade their entering (off to college, middle school, program, etc.)
Something wonderful that’s going on with them.

We would love to celebrate with you as we end another year of school, activities, accomplishments, and greatness!

Sandbox- The joy of writing with Community Literacies Collaboration
2025-05-21 - 2025-09-21 | AR
The Sandbox invites community literacies workers to write thought provoking, accessible, brief policy memos, reports, or essays on a timely issue within literacy learning and practice.
Please click the link below or here, to enjoy my literacy narrative autobiography writing and other great writers who share their passions to inspire, encourage, and impact the world we live in.

Thank you CLC for our partnership to embrace literacy and its many facets.

Juneteenth Celebration & spoken word presentation 6pm
2025-06-14 18:00 - 23:00 UTC | AR
I will be at the Fort Smith, AR. Juneteenth celebration presenting a spoken word piece.
Sharing my poem Jubilee Dance at 6pm. Details are found here on this link. See you there!

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally/internationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond.
Today Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. It is a day, a week, and in some areas, a month marked with celebrations, guest speakers, picnics and family gatherings. It is a time for reflection and rejoicing. It is a time for assessment, self-improvement and for planning the future.

Speaking Event: B.E.E. 9th Expo/Juneteenth- Tulsa, OK.
2025-06-20 - 2025-06-22 | Greenwood Cultural Center, 322 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK, 74120
Juneteenth is set in Tulsa, OK. for 2025!!

I will be speaking again this year with B.E.E. Get ready for an exciting weekend of networking, shopping, and community connections at the 9th Annual Black Economic Expo during Juneteenth weekend!

Date: June 20-22, 2025
Location: Greenwood Cultural Center

August Newsletter/Reading Ambassadors
2025-08-04 08:00 - 17:00 | AR
I am so excited to start our newsletter for the reading ambassador program we have. We send out a newsletter twice a year and include with it a book for our ambassadors. I truly believe that at the heart of learning is words! And they really do matter to a young mind. I sure thought so at that age. If interested in joining this great reading exploration with your young reader just reach out to me and we can get you all set up.
Thank you for participating and believing that it’s “the small things we do that make a BIG difference”!

Book Reading in Rogers, AR.
2025-08-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Rogers Public Library, 711 S Dixieland Road, Rogers, AR, 72758, United States
Join us for a storytime with award-winning local author Angela Glass as she reads her book, “Are My Glasses Too Big?”
Angela Glass is a poet, award-winning writer, and author of her women’s book Words Matter. A motivational speaker and advocate for youth literacy, Angela has written books that focus on embracing your purpose, along with children’s books that seeks to spark critical thinking in youth to celebrate creativity, while encouraging confidence as they explore the many styles of writing.

3 on 3 Fast-INspire-Encourage
2025-10-01 08:00 - 2025-12-31 17:00 | AR
Ladies, join me on my Facebook page for this wonderful time as we do some simple things that can create powerful changes as we look into our 2026 year.

We are fasting 3x a month starting this month~ October ~ until December 2025.
You choose how you want to fast. I have given some ideas and shared a few things I am doing.
We make a commitment to see beyond what our eyes can often miss when it comes to Purpose, Vision, and embracing US.
JOIN ME!!

I Love Poetry- Black Poetry Day 10/17
2025-10-17 | AR
Enjoy a personal piece of mine, written in 2023 after reading some of the book: The Body Keeps the Score-Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Repeat after Me
Yo’ child taking pills,
Underlying they don’t know what’s real.
Through your hurt and pain,
Very seldom it’s in our gain.
Struggling, struggling to survive.
God told us about Mother Earth.
Carry her, treasure her worth.
Our babies hurt, confused and diseased.
The system has the answer:
Medicate their minds, so we can be pleased.
Why were we taught Not. To. Cry.
To close the door when our voices got too high.
I am the ceiling you are the floor.
We both see the window of our pain…
A 5 yr. old on prescription drugs- help us as we deal with our shame.
Can you hear the fetters on their little feet, still needing milk Paul,
The world forces them meat.
How do we change a system that know not our name.
How much more shame.
Before you were born, God already proclaimed.
That baby over yonder, “she was fine with you lord.”
“She was healthy, he was strong.”
Can we please turn back to you?
That’s where we belong.
Why our black babies get put on drugs?
Why our black kids can’t thrive?
How long will our communities burn from within,
Does our blackness make us turn a blind eye?
Am I too Black to see?
Is my blackness out of control?
Will I assist in my own injection to keep me numb?
When God says, “son, daughter you come from
my treasure, riches untold.”
I walk and the ground shakes.
I speak and heaven quakes.
I yield and God makes the way.
I plant and their grows my faith.
We must reconcile our homes to our streets,
Build purpose from the pain we weep.
Saturate our youth with armor their minds can reap.

This. Is. A. Promise. Through. Our. God. We. Keep.
How do we change a system that know not our name?
Who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame?
You are not just clay,
A myriad from the dirt-
Sand of the sea,
God calls your hands to be of good work.
What shall rise against the calamity of our time?
You, You, for inside of purpose lies strength we must recognize.
I will speak and you will answer,
I will call- you shall awake.
We will teach our babies truth?
Our ancestors still hold our hands “Make No Mistake.”
Our Power Is In Our Healing
Our answer comes through our prayer.
As we support another,
This is where your armor gets repaired.
Let your voice echo in the wind,
Let your purpose call you to the end.
Let your vision keep you through the night,
Let your soul make a pathway to the light.
Let your mind steady the strength of your hands,
Let your courage remain when fear takes its stand.
Let your truth lead you down the road,
Let your tears remind you who is in control.
Let your burdens yield to your faith,
Let Joy be the backdrop when doubt wants to win the race.
Let purpose forever stand,
Let God remind you…He Always… Has A Plan.

K.I.D.S. Community Garden
2025-10-22 | AR
I am excited to partner with Fruit of the Vine as we connect to get our garden ready for picking and learning! Follow along on my Facebook page for any updates! We are getting ready to plant for our cold season…can you think of a few items that might be good to see sprouting from our garden?

Fort Smith Parade- book giveaway
2025-12-13 14:00 - 17:00 | AR
We gave out over 200 free books as we walked the Fort Smith Parade today at 3pm! Can I say thank you for our volunteers from NAACP youth council, friends, and my girls who were ready to step up and help!

Book Library is ready for 2026!
2026-01-01 | Trendsetter Barbershop & Salon, 2039 North Green Acres Road, Fayetteville, 72703, United States
As we get ready to turn another year older, we at Story Sparks book library, nestled inside of Trendsetter Barber Shop and Salon say, thank you. Thank you for allowing us to serve you. We look forward to connecting with more ways to further our mission of literacy in our community and growing from each seed we plant in our young youth.
Thank you and we hope to see you soon!
Remember, our books are always FREE!

Stop by for FREE MLK activity sheets
2026-01-01 - 2026-01-31 | Trendsetter Barbershop & Salon, 2039 North Green Acres Road, Fayetteville, 72703, United States
We have some activity sheets for your youth to grab-and-go with at the library this month. As we get closer to MLK day and remember the significance of a pivotal moment for Civil Rights, we encourage you to stop by and use these activity sheets as conversation pieces for your youth as you share important teachings of civil rights and the impact they continue to have in our Black community and beyond.
Place: Trendsetter Barber Shop and Salon
Location: 2039 North Green Acres Road, Fayetteville, AR. 72701
January 1- 31, 2026

BHM Poetry all Month!
2026-02-01 - 2026-02-28 | AR
I’m sharing some of my most inspiring poems on social media that has impacted me. Reading an article, seeing a commercial, having a dream, bumping into a stranger, or just letting my internal compass speak directions of inspiration definitely have allowed me to create pieces that bring joy to my soul.
Join me this month!

Black History Experience Cards
2026-02-01 - 2026-02-28 | Levels2Barber Lounge, 2597 North College Ave, Fayetteville, AR, United States
This is my 5th year of collaborating with Levels2Barber Lounge to set up some things for our February Black Experience as we step into Black History Month. We have some items for your youth: Books, snacks, information, and Community! Go get a great cut and grab your youth some free items.
Will you celebrate all the good that's going on in your #Community
