BLACK HISTORY MONTH--Visitors to the main Columbus Metropolitan Library walk the mural stairway created by Columbus artist Amimah Brenda Lynn Robinson, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1997. The library is offering a full plate of events and activities in celebration of Black History Month.

WAITING FOR THE BUS--Fran Hansbrough, of Richmond, Virginia, has her luggage and pillows ready for her trip back home as she waits for a bus in the lobby of the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1997. Hansbrough participated in the Reading Recovery Conference sponsored by the Ohio Dept. of Education.