Explore Black History Month
There is still plenty of opportunity to honor, celebrate, learn, and grow your understanding of Black History. Enjoy an art exhibit, a documentary preview with the director, or learn online. Here are a three resources with descriptions of current events:
American Black History Museum - Founders Day Gathering February 25
Join America’s Black Holocaust Museum As We Celebrate Founder’s Day!
How Communities Remember and Repair Racial Trauma
The Program will explore these questions:
How should America commemorate some of the most disturbing chapters of our racial history?
How might that commemoration help or hurt victims, perpetrators and bystanders?
What role should our museums and institutions play in the work of memory and racial healing?
Always In Season, A New Film Screening and Director’s Talk
Morning Session. Open to General Public. See a sneak preview of the new documentary film, Always in Season, followed by an audience talkback with the filmmaker and cat. The film shows how lynching still impacts Americans and followed the efforts of descendants f victims and perpetrators in four communities who work to acknowledge the victims, repair the damage, and reconcile.
To register go to:
Fresh Perspective Art Collective, the Wisconsin Black Historical Society, and members of Wisconsin Urban Wood are pleased to present a group exhibition honoring Milwaukee’s most influential black citizens. "Urban Heroes, Urban Wood" will run from Feb. 17 to March 17 at the Wisconsin Black Historical Society and Museum, 2620 W. Center St., Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Black Historical Society is open from, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
Learn more at www.wbhsm.org.
For more information on Fresh Perspective Art Collective, visit www.facebook.com/freshperspectiveart.
New to the concept of Wisconsin Urban Wood? Check out www.wisconsinurbanwood.org.
Event Venue:
Wisconsin Black Historical Society
Event Location:
2620 W. Center Street
Milwaukee, WI 53206
28 days of Black history
February is Black History Month, and in many ways, that history is still being written today. This year, in an effort to honor those notable individuals who have played a role in Black History that has touched Milwaukee, Alderwoman Chantia Lewis and Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs are leading a first-of-its-kind Common Council informational campaign. Throughout this month as part of that campaign, several key Milwaukee Black History makers will be profiled on the City of Milwaukee website’s main page. The prominent online spot will give students and Milwaukeeans across the city a chance to learn about – and to honor – some of the city’s notable and unsung heroes.
http://city.milwaukee.gov/home
http://city.milwaukee.gov/commoncouncil/28-days-of-black-history.htm#.WKIxbYWcFok
