African American Educational and Cultural Festival marks Black History Month with a reception at Riverhead Free Library on Saturday, Feb. 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. The event, emceed by James “Dr.
One Sunday in May 1917, on the first day of services at the newly built First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens, the congregation celebrated with a processional and mortgage burning.
Every month is a good month to catch a show at the Penumbra Theatre, home of Minnesota's only Black professional theater company. In February, it'll put on "Paradise Blue," a "noir-inflected musical ...