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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
 
 
Pender native sheds light on Black community's fading history with new book - Curtis Hardison, author of the book "Griot: The Evolution of Edgecombe" tells how the small community's roots stretch across the Atlantic ocean.

Locals want NC Black cemetery fixed up to preserve its history - Family members whose loved ones are buried at a cemetery in Robeson County are asking the community to help repair and preserve its history.
 
Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
-Sugar Ray Leonard
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



North Carolina Museum of Art
Jazz at the NCMA Presents Kirk Whalum and Chante Moore
The kickoff concert of our 2023 Jazz at the NCMA series. This evening features Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum and Grammy-nominated sophisticated R&B vocalist Chanté Moore. Thursday, June 1st, 7:00 pm Doors open at 5:30 pm



Rock Quarry Park
53rd Annual Bimbe Cultural Arts Festival
The nationally award-winning Bimbé Cultural Arts Festival will celebrate its 53rd Anniversary on June 3, 2023! Enjoy a day filled with live music, arts and crafts, community resources, tasty traditional food, and local talent. Saturday, June 3rd, 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm



Hayti Heritage Center
What's Goin On? : A Tribute to Marvin Gaye
Combining theater, self-care writing, and dialogue creates a space for a topic so close to Black women of all generations. The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks, and Curls explores the lives of several Black women-identified characters in the context of beauty, identity, and growth - ultimately revealing how hair is intertwined with it all. Sunday, June 11th, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm


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PBS Learning Media: Charlotte Hawkins Brown
In 1902, during the worst years of Jim Crow segregation, Charlotte Hawkins Brown founded the Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina.

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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