THE PERFORMER The Newark Public Library Miche (pronounced “Mickey”) Braden is a singer, actor, musician, songwriter, arranger and musical Presents director. She is a product of the rich musical heritage of her hometown, Detroit, where she A Black History Celebration was an artist-in-residence with the Detroit Council of the Arts, the founder and former Opening Night lead singer of Straight Ahead (women’s jazz band), and was a protégé of Motown musi- cians Thomas “Beans” Bowles, Earl Van Dyke (leader of The Funk Brothers), and jazz master composer Harold McKinney. As a singer, Miche has performed with Re- gina Carter, Alexis P. Suter, Milt Hinton, Lionel Hampton and Frenchie Davis. She is featured on the James Carter re- lease Gardenia’s for Lady Day (Sony/Columbia), and ap- peared with him at Carnegie Hall. Miche performed “New York State of Mind” in Movin’ Out on Broadway, and was dubbed “Billy Joel’s Piano Woman” by Fox 5 News. Miche’s talented and versatile work can be heard on Diva Out of Bounds, Ms. Miche (available on iTunes and CD Baby). This Saturday JONATHAN CAPEHART ~ FEB 6th Centennial Hall ~ 2:00-4:00 PM Thursday, February 4, 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Washington Post editorial board member, PostPartisan blogger Exhibition and MSNBC contributor, Jonathan Capehart, We Found Our Way: will be the keynote speaker on Saturday, Feb- Newark Portraits from the Great Migration ruary 6 at 2 PM, Centennial Hall. Born and raised in Newark, NJ and a gradu- ate of St. Benedict's Preparatory Keynote Speaker High School in Newark, Capehart will discuss "White Balance: Distortion of John Franklin Black Images on Television." Hosted by Emmy Senior Manager Office of External Affairs Award-winning anchor/reporter and FiOS 1 The National Museum of African American News Team anchor, Vanessa Tyler. History and Culture Celeste Bateman, Guest Producer Celeste Bateman & Associates, LLC CENTENNIAL HALL | NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY (973) 705-8253 | www.celestebateman.com | [email protected] 5 WASHINGTON STREET | NEWARK, NJ THE EXHIBITION We Found Our Way: Newark Portraits from the Great The Newark Public Library Migration This 2016 Black History exhibition centers on the remarka- Presents ble narratives of the Krueger-Scott African-American Oral History Collection. This collection, assembled in the late A Black History Celebration 1990s under the direction of Catherine J. Lenix-Hooker, Exhibition Opening captured the stories of Newark's African-American citizens We Found Our Way: who migrated to the city between 1910-1970. The result is Newark Portraits from the Great Migration over 100 interviews with brave men and women who left the segregated, Jim Crow South to make better lives for them- 5:30—6:30 pm selves and their families. Samantha J. Boardman, Ph.D., Meet & Greet Guest Curator Light Refreshments (Please visit the exhibition) THE SPEAKER John W. Franklin serves as Senior Welcome Manager, Office of External Affairs, The Trish Morris-Yamba, Board Member National Museum of African American The Newark Public Library History and Culture (NMAAHC), Wash- ington, DC. Franklin has worked on Af- Remarks rican American, African and African Linda Bowden, PNC Bank Diaspora programs for the past 25+ years at the Smithsonian. Initially, he Remarks served as researcher and French lan- Samantha Boardman, Ph.D., Guest Curator guage interpreter for the Smithsonian’s African Diaspora program of the 1976 Bicentennial Folklife Festival while liv- Remarks ing and teaching English in Dakar, Senegal. He was a pro- Catherine J, Lenix-Hooker gram manager and curator at the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage where he developed presen- Introduction of Speaker tations on Senegal, the Bahamas, Cape Verde and Wash- John Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., Director ington, D.C., for the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Newark Celebration 350 Franklin served on the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture from 1998 to 2008 and the Keynote Speaker board of the Reginald Lewis Maryland Museum of African John W. Franklin American History and Culture from 2000 to 2009. With his Senior Manager Office of External Affairs, NMAAHC father, the late Dr. John Hope Franklin, he co-edited My Washington, DC Life and An Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Frank- "Introducing the National Museum of African American lin. He also served as advisor on the documentary film, Tutu History and Culture" and Franklin: A Journey Towards Peace. PNC Foundation is proud to support The Newark Public Library's Black History Celebration .