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

• King Records Legacy Foundation
• AAHBT
• DAAM
• Hamilton County Developmental Disabilities Services
• Lincoln Recreation Center – CRC
• BLOC Ministries
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Leading Men Fellowship Cincinnati
• Robert O'Neal Multicultural Arts Center (ROMAC)
• LaVerne Summerlin, author of Gems of Cincinnati’s West End: Black Children and Catholic Missionaries 1940-1970
• Cincinnati Parent Empowerment Network
• The Voice of Black Cincinnati
• West End Library

Mezzanine

• Kitabu Children's Books
• Sweet Jazz Treats Bakery
• A. Ruth Creations, LLC

The Avenue

• Inspirit Arts
• City of Cincinnati – Department of City Planning & Engagement
• InInFlyWeTrust, Inc
• 9Muses Henna
• Junebug Jewelry Designs
• Living Proof
• Maximo Impact
• BlacCk Owned Outwear

Cincinnati History Museum

• Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Shaping Our City)
• Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Public Landing)
• Arabeth Balasko, Curator of Photographs, Prints and Media at Cincinnati Museum Center (History in the Making Classroom)
• Taft Museum of Art (You Are Here)

Museum of Natural History & Science

• Greater Cincinnati Grotto (The Cave Plaza)
• RJS Fashion, LLC (STEM Lab)

The Children’s Museum

• Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition (Corbett Theater)
• Seven Hills Neighborhood House (Animal Spot)
• The STEM Lab (Little Sprouts Farm)

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.