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The Story of North Carolina aniels Schedule of Events uditorium Opening Kickoff Bicentennial Plaza to Staircase Stage, Level 1 10:30–11 a.m. Eleators to eel Eleators and Stairs to Procession SE Education enter nformation Staircase Join the procession up Bicentennial Plaza and into the museum lobby to open the event! es Stage Jonkonnu drummers a a Hey America!: Eastern North he useum Sho A Drummer’s World Drumline emonstra- oat Room Carolina and the Birth of Funk tion allery ursing ain b Room Entrance Welcoming Remarks b Made Especially for You Statues Michelle Lanier, Director, North Carolina African American Heritage Commission by Willie Kay Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Professor, Bennett College, and Chair, North Carolina African American Heritage Commission Musical Performance Heritage Restoration Chorale with Denise Payton, Director: “Lift Every Voice and Sing” SE Education enter LEVEL R nformation Restrooms ongleaf ogood ardinal CELEBRATE Music, Movement, and Drama haraohs lassroom lassroom lassroom ater the Staircase Stage, Level 1 Daniels Auditorium, Level 1 useum Host: Donna-maria Harris, Award-Winning Journalist and Host: Warren Keyes, Actor and Owner, KeyVox Voice Services Eleators Founder/Chair, TeenFest Foundation Eleators and 11–11:30 a.m. YES Group: Youth Exploration Services ood endor ones Street , Entrance Stairs to eel 1 11:30 a.m.–noon Heritage Restoration Chorale St Paul AME Church: What’s Going On?: Civil Rights Told 12:15–12:45 p.m. Jalimuso Eshé, Pathways to Freedom: Through Narration, Character Portrayals, and Music letcher arden ot og ady Songs of the Struggle for Equality 11:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Sounds of a Movement: Larry 1–1:30 p.m. Corey Leak: Broadway to Mary J. Blige Draughn, Black Rhythm and Blue Harmony Multi-media 1:45–2:30 p.m. Mary D. Williams, Song and Narrative 12:30–1 p.m. Carolyn Evans, Historical Reenactment: of the Black South My Spirit Sings—Women Who Could’ve Sung the Blues 2:45–3:15 p.m. Deborah Wilkins, Jazz Musician and Songwriter 1:30–2 p.m. Johnny White and the Elite Band, Motown Medleys 3:30–4:15 p.m. Tom Browne, Jamaican Funk 2:30–3 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. All Children’s Choir 3:15–3:45 p.m. Tim Jackson, Spoken Word 5 East Edenton Street, Raleigh 4–4:30 p.m. The Gifted Arts, Step and Drama 919-807-7900 • ncmuseumofhistory.org Shaw University CELEBRATE CELEBRATE CELEBRATE TeenFest Foundation History, Film, and Enterprise Literature and the Spoken Word Craft and Art Traditions Youth Exploration Services Inc. Longleaf Classroom, SECU Education Center Demonstration Gallery, Level 1 Level 1 Level 3 Host: Earl Ijames, Curator, North Carolina Museum of History Cohosts: Eleanora E. Tate, Author and Storyteller, and Greg Paige, Portrait Painter Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Phi Lambda Chapter: Judy Allen Dodson, Librarian/Archivist, Olivia Raney Library, 11:15–11:45 a.m. Andrea Clark, Entrepreneur, Historic Jerome Bias, Furniture Maker Register to Vote! Wake County Public Libraries Marilyn Griffin, Doll Maker State Historic Site: Play with and make toys. Preservationist, and Photographer Area sponsored, in part, by the North Carolina Writers’ Network Bennie Baker, Pipe Maker Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum: Use photographs, music, Noon–12:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m.–noon Jaki Shelton Green, Award-Winning Ebony Raleigh Area Group Stitchers, Quilters and documents to learn about Palmer Memorial Institute. Sasha Mitchell, City of Asheville African American Author and Poet; Former North Carolina Piedmont Laureate; African American Quilt Circle, Quilters Historic Halifax State Historic Site: Learn about George Heritage Commission, and Partner, Buncombe County Member, North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame Ben Harris, Metalworker Moses Horton and try your hand at crafting an acrostic. Slave Deed Project Elizabeth Constant Lewis, Seamstress and Beader Historic Edenton State Historic Site: Harriet Jacobs Story Bruce Kennedy, Filmmaker, Teacher, Artist 12:10–12:40 p.m. Patrik Henry Bass, Author, Like a Mighty Latta House Foundation and Friends of Oberlin Stream: The March on Washington and The Zero Degree Zombie Level 3 Teri Burnette, Department of Media Studies, Paine College Hat Making: Create a celebratory hat out of tissue paper. Zone, and Editorial Projects Director, Essence Magazine Jonathan Daniel, Wire Artist Rosenwald Schools Project and North Carolina Freedom 12:45–1:30 p.m. Pinkie Strother, Miniatures and Clay Figurine Maker 12:50–1:20 p.m. Carole Boston Weatherford, New York Monument Park Project Business: Slave Gardens to Black Wall Street—A Retrospective Betty Williams White, Milliner (Hat Maker) North Carolina State Capitol: Discover what voting rights Times Best-Selling Author Chester Williams, Mask Maker Hosted by C. J. Broderick, Chair, Durham Jaycees needed to vote in the late 1800s. 1:30–2:15 p.m. Neal Thomas, White-Oak Basketmaker Ms. Judy K. Jefferson and Ms. Alicia Johnson Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Iota Iota Chapter Navigating the World of Publishing Kimberley Pierce Cartwright, Fiber Artist from the Office of Gov. Pat McCrory Pope House Museum, City of Raleigh Museum: Learn the history of M. T. Pope, and make a doctor’s head mirror. Dr. Lori Johnson, Morgan State University ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Author, Mama’s Boy, SECU Education Center The Devil is a Lie, and The Secret She Kept; Former Ben Watford, Potter Saint Augustine’s University Dr. Jim Harper, North Carolina Central University Television and Radio News Reporter; and Editor, State Historic Site: Handle reproduction 1:45–2:15 p.m. Mark Mitchell, Collector and Dealer: Houston Defender Newspaper Roaming Performers, Level 1 objects from the program Made from off the Land. Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins, Puppet Maker State Historic Site: Make a cowrie shell necklace. Documenting Four Centuries of Struggle and Accomplishment Jacquelin Thomas, Author and Nominee for a 2008 MopTopShop: Let Off Some STEAM with Mop Top, Triangle Friends of African American Arts NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction 2:30–3 p.m. the Hip-Hop Scientist, and Lollipop Tryon Palace African American Aviators McBride, Commercial Book Publisher and Editor Wheel of History: Test your knowledge of black history. Tom Browne , Musician and Aviator 2–3 p.m. Meet the Logo Designer: Make a donation to support SECU Education Center the African American Cultural Celebration, and Obelia Exum, CELEBRATE Bill Wilkerson, North Carolina Transportation Museum Conservation Trust for North Carolina a graphic designer at the museum and designer of the festival and Former Flight Instructor Education and Heritage Justice Theater Project logo, will sign a festival poster. 3:15–3:45 p.m. B. Bernetiae Reed, Nurse, Amateur Dogwood Classroom, SECU Education Center National Assn of African Americans in Human Resources Genealogist, Author, The Slave Families of Thomas Jefferson, 2:20–3:05 p.m. Host: Cash Michaels, Filmmaker and Staff Writer,Wilmington Journal North Carolina African American Heritage Commission, and Producer, Thomas Jefferson’s Slaves Civil Rights on Many Fronts featuring Journeys Toward Freedom 12:30–1 p.m. The Impact of African American Newspapers Our Youth Matters Dudley Flood, Former Associate State Superintendent, on the Civil Rights Movement: Cash Michaels, Moderator; State Library of North Carolina A Call to Arms Gallery, Level 3 North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and Paul Jervay, Publisher, The Carolinian; Kenneth Edmonds, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Triangle Tribune Executive Director, North Carolina Association of School Publisher, The Carolina Times Civil War reenactors Administrators 1:30–2:15 p.m. Advocates for Change: North Carolina Battery B, 2nd Regiment, US Colored Light Artillery Dr. Damon Tweedy, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Student Interns and Community Organizers of the 1960s: CELEBRATE 18th Army Corps Medical Center, and New York Times Naomi Feaste, Aisha Abdul-Ali, Annie Ballentine, Clem 37th US Colored Infantry Best-Selling Author, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Food and Health Baines, Nathan Garrett The Story of North CarolinaExhibit, Level 1 Reflections of Race and Medicine Cardinal Classroom, SECU Education Center 2:30–3:15 p.m. Researching African American Ancestors: 2–3 p.m. Not Your Average History Tour: Meet at the Janice Mack Guess, Author, Little Colored Girls Want to Wear Rebecca Hyman, Educational Programs and Outreach 12:45–1:15 p.m. How to Feed Your Southerner: Clarissa Information Desk to join theater students from the Paine Pearls Too, and Administrator, Department of Environmental Librarian, Government and Heritage Library, State Library Clifton, Food Historian and Author, One Hearth, One Pot: College Playhouse for a dramatic and interactive tour—based Sciences, North Carolina Central University of North Carolina For Love of Food and History on their own research—through The Story of North Carolina. 3:20–4:30 p.m. North Carolina Association of Black 1:30–2 p.m. Bridgette Lacy, Author, Sunday Dinner Storytellers: Storytelling Vignettes Hands-On Activities and Information Tables Level 1 2:45–3:15 p.m. Chef Jerome “Rome” Brown, Author, Gallery Hunt: Search for answers and win a prize! Eat Like a Celebrity: Southern Cuisine with a Gourmet Twist Gresham’s Coins, Stamps, and Medals 3:30–4 p.m. Rhonda Muhammad, Educator, Culinary Miss Black North Carolina Arts Teacher, Scholar, and Owner, Rhonda’s Pie Creations North Carolina Association of Black Storytellers