Pastor Eddie W. Lawrence
The Gospel Harmonettes
Minister Angela Neal-Williams
Bishop J. Terrell Alston
Local Church Choirs

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The program is designed to empower the community with the music, dance moves, and storytelling while exploring Black history through a deeply rooted African lens.

Get ready to get moving and increase your cultural awareness of African music and dance origins and its many contributions to the world of the Arts throughout time.

Mama Azia has been teaching, performing, and choreographing dances in numerous venues both in the United States and abroad. She has taught African dance in places as varied as Belize, the Bahamas, Zimbabwe, and New Zealand.

Mama Azia’s ultimate goal is to reach the hearts of all people – young and old – by working together to create and practice love, peace, and harmony through dance and music.

Photo Credit: Melanin Day School Academy

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Patrick, the Great Grandson of Bryon C. Brown, purchased Oakley Grove in May of 2021 and now owns the plantation that his great-grandfather once helped build and manage. Learn more about the Brown legacy at Oakley Grove and the future Patrick and his family are building at the site through Industrial Hemp farming and plans for Agritourism in honor of all the enslaved families that once lived there.

Registration is FREE, but required.

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Henry “Box” Brown was an African American born into slavery in 1816 in Louisa County, Virginia. Although he was not subjected to physical violence, Henry’s story (the basis for One Noble Journey) demonstrates the cruelty of slavery was every bit as devastating to the heart as it could be on the body. After his family was torn apart and parceled out to various beneficiaries of the estate, Henry devised an ingenious escape plan – sealing himself in a wooden box for shipment to friends and freedom in Philadelphia.

One Noble Journey also recounts the daring and miraculous quest for freedom of Elizabeth Craft and her husband William, who were born into slavery in Georgia.* Ellen Craft, who was very light skinned, disguised herself as a sickly, white gentleman traveling to Philadelphia for medical treatment. Ellen and William, who acted as her slave throughout the journey, bravely traveled on public trains and steamers as they made their way up the eastern seaboard to Philadelphia. Eventually they were forced to sail for England after the Fugitive Slave Law enabled slave hunters to pursue them even in free states.

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