East plans performance

YOUNGSTOWN

East High School Visual and Performing Arts will have a free Black History Month performance on the theme “Let Us Build a New World Together ... a Tribute to the Civil Rights Movement” at 6 p.m. Thursday in the school’s auditorium, 474 Bennington Ave. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Performance pieces will include dramatic readings focusing on figures including Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Little Rock Nine.