Celebrate Black Empowerment Day

Gather together in a celebration of Black excellence and empowerment

Gather together in a celebration of Black excellence and empowerment alongside community partners, performers, speakers, Black-owned businesses and more. This daylong event is an opportunity to share, connect, learn, grown and strengthen as we Celebrate Black Empowerment.

Community & Vendors Booths:

Rotunda

• Avant Consulting Group
• Harriet Beecher Stowe House
• Hospice of Cincinnati
• Hamilton County Developmental Disability Services
• I Am Living Proof
• Inspirit Arts
• Junebug Jewelry
• King Records Legacy
• Kitabu Books
• LaVerne Summerlin, author of Gems of Cincinnati’s West End: Black Children and Catholic Missionaries 1940-1970
• Literacy Labs
• Maximo Impact, LLC
• The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center
• A Ruth Creations, LLC
• Robert O’Neal Multicultural Arts Center
• Seven Hills Neighborhood House
• Taft Alumni Association

Fountain Gallery Plaza

• Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
• Sweet Jazz Treats

Cincinnati History Museum

• Bonita & Bello (History in the Making Classroom)
• Arabeth Balasko, Curator of Photographs, Prints and Media at Cincinnati Museum Center (Public Landing)
• Over-the-Rhine Museum (Shaping Our City)
• Taft Museum of Art (You Are Here)
• Way Back West End (Shaping Our City)

Museum of Natural History & Science

• Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition (Dinosaur Hall)
• The Foundation International (The Cave Plaza)
• University of Cincinnati Engineering (Earth Classroom)

The Children’s Museum

• 1 Heart 2 Hands (Corbett Theater)
• IDEA School (Animal Spot)
• The STEM Lab (Super Sprouts)

Scheduled Programming:

10 to 11:30 a.m.

Reakirt Auditorium

• America’s Truth: Cincinnati
  The first documentary produced by the Center for Community
  Resilience at George Washington University, demonstrating how structural racism in policies, practices and programs creates and sustains racial trauma and inequity in four Cincinnati neighborhoods.

10:30 to 11 a.m.

The Children’s Museum

• A special Story Tree Time with Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library

11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cincinnati History Museum

• Black Art Speaks (History in the Making Classroom)
  Cincinnati native KéMonté J Figgs, better known by his artist and pen name K.J Figgs The Artist, is an artist who inspires to be the Black Dr. Suess. He brings his very own fresh concept to the world that intrigues the mind’s perspective on dreams and how to achieve them.

11 a.m. to Noon

Newsreel Theater

• LaVerne Summerlin
  A local author shares her book of personal stories of 100 African American alumni of the nine Catholic schools that were in existence in the West End during the 1940s.

Noon to 2 p.m.

Reakirt Auditorium

• Reaching Self Reliant Students, Inc.
  A workshop focusing on making secondary education a financial reality

1 to 1:30 p.m.

Newsreel Theater

• Lost Voices
  A short film made by Urbanist Media for the ArtsWave Truth & Reconciliations grant showcase at the Freedom Center that highlights the rich African American history of Cincinnati’s West End neighborhood!

1:30 to 4 p.m.

Newsreel Theater

• Conversations around Black liberation and intersectionality in Cincinnati’s African American communities presented by Urbanist Media
  Programming featuring conversations with Black and LGBTQ+ history experts about how Cincinnati’s Black communities have been centered around liberation and intersectionality. The program will run every half hour and will end at 4 p.m.

3 to 4:30 p.m.

Reakirt Auditorium

• America’s Truth: Cincinnati
  The first documentary produced by the Center for Community
  Resilience at George Washington University, demonstrating how structural racism in policies, practices and programs creates and sustains racial trauma and inequity in four Cincinnati neighborhoods.