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Interested in NCAAHC sharing your Juneteenth 2023 event to our various platforms (event calendar, email list, social media, etc.)?  Please fill out our event submission form.
Interested in learning about the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail and how to get a historical marker in your community? 
The NC African American Heritage Commission is joining communities across the state to physically mark sites critical to Civil Rights Movements in North Carolina. 
 
 
 
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News from Across the State
 
 
New Hanover Co. to honor life and legacy of local leader, activist with historical trail marker  - A marker commemorating the accomplishments of Dr. Hubert Eaton will be installed in front of the Historic Downtown Courthouse in Wilmington, located at 24 N Third St.

Bell presented proclamation after work on Chaloner ceremony. - After a ceremony Friday in which a historic marker honoring John Armstrong Chaloner was unveiled at Chaloner Middle School, Roanoke Rapids City Council presented a proclamation to the woman who began the effort to honor the industrialist.
One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations. 
-John Coltrane
Tryon Palace
We Built This: Profiles of Black Architects and Builders
This traveling panel exhibit highlights the stories of those who constructed and designed many of North Carolina's most treasured historical sites. Spanning more than three centuries, We Built This provides more than two dozen personal profiles and historical context on key topics, including slavery and Reconstruction, the founding of HBCUs and Black churches, Jim Crow and segregation, and the rise of Black civic leaders and professionals. We Built This acknowledges and celebrates the Black builders, craftsmen, and architects who constructed or designed many of North Carolina's most treasured historic places. April 3rd - July 23rd


Beats N Bars Festival
Beats n Bars welcomes all to a day of art, trivia, dancing, and fashion shows on the American Tobacco Campus. Saturday, April 29th, 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Blue Ridge Community College
Local History Fair and Historic Johnson Farm presentation
Western North Carolina history will be the focus of the first annual Local history Fair hosted by Blue Ridge Community College at the Henderson County Campus Library. Exhibits, presentations, crafts and activities will be prepared by numerous community organizations. Wednesday May 3rd, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture
Open Air: Artist Talk with David Shrobe
Open Air is a monthly series of virtual studio visits and intimate conversations with Black artists globally hosted by the Gantt. Open Air for May features David Shrobe, the New York based artist disassembles furniture, separating wood from fabric and recombines them as supports for collage, painting and drawing.  The program will be live-streamed on the Gantt Center YouTube channel.   Tuesday, May 9th, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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PBS REEL SOUTH: Quilted Education
The act of making quilts has long been a survival skill, an art, and a communication tool. Through this meaningful art, Black quilters have been sharing their stories even as many have tried to minimize or omit Black Americans' contributions to U.S. history. 

The NC African American Heritage Commission works to achieve the mission of preserving, protecting, and promoting North Carolina's African American history, art, and culture, for all people.
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