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Arlington National Cemetery serves as the final resting place for more than 400,000 individuals. Most are veterans. But one of Arlington’s lesser-known stories is that of Section 27, the resting place documenting the nation’s complicated history of slavery, freedom and military service.
Robert Townsend, Lorenz Tate and Ben Vereen appeared together at the Wilmington Public Library.
The event, which kicked off at 12:30 p.m., lasted until late afternoon, drawing a large, enthusiastic crowd of students, alumni, and HBCU supporters from across the region.
“Shared Vision” is composed of 40 works in a wide range of media by world-renowned artists, including Bisa Butler, Elizabeth Colomba, Samella Lewis, and Lezley Saar, and emerging art stars such as Luke Agada and Alex Peter Idoko.
BlerDcon attracts Black people who immerse themselves in everything from manga and animé to Star Trek and Star Wars and every iteration of science fiction culture in between. In fact, BlerDcon centers Blackness and People of Color in Sci-Fi, anime, fantasy and horror entertainment.
BlerDCon (Black Nerd Convention) is a convention that celebrates black nerd culture while also being inclusive of all backgrounds.
The ECBACC is the first bona fide “Black Comic Book Convention” in Philadelphia, PA, and serves as a replicable model for community-based comic book conventions.
The evil that men do, lives after them, The good is oft’ interred with their bones. - Frederick Douglass
On June 19, 1865, freedom reached the westernmost Confederate state of Texas. On this day, some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved African Americans in Texas were free.
