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More information about the programs above in corresponding order, if you're curious:

• Celebrate Juneteenth and explore Durham’s Black History with this informative and captivating visual display of the various people, places, and things that are a part of Durham and its history.
• Music has long been a form of communication, inspiration, creative release, storytelling, and so much more. Pick up you take and make kit and make your own musical instrument to explore the possibilities.
• The intersection of history and genealogy is important because we must be able to see ourselves in any meaningful history story we tell and hold.  History and genealogy come together when you can place your people in the stories you tell.  Genealogy tells us that they lived.  History can tell us how they lived.  Author of Discovering A.S.J. Allen: A Story of Skinfolk, Kinfolk, and Village Folk; Winner of the 2023 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award.  The award recognizes an outstanding book relating to Florida's ethnic groups. Winners of this award, sponsored by the Florida Historical Society, have “exposed and analyzed a significant social issue from a historical perspective. 
• From opera, to jazz, to R&B, from musical theatre, to spirituals, and everything else in between, music of all genres is deeply ingrained in Black culture. Micaela Shanyce Bundy presents: “Music of the Black Diaspora” - A Tribute to Black History & Culture Through Song. Featuring Adrienne Jernigan on piano, the duo presents a lecture recital of music authentic to their experiences as Black artists while paying homage to the rich spectrum that is Black music.
• Hailed by Huffington Post as a “master of picture book nonfiction,” Carole Boston Weatherford is a Newbery Honor author, New York Times best-seller and two-time NAACP Image Award winner. The Baltimore-born daughter of educators, Carole at age six dictated her first poem to her mother. Her father, a high school printing teacher, published some of her early poems on the press in his classroom. By middle school, she had transferred from an all-black public school to an exclusive private school. There, her eighth- grade teacher wrongfully accused her of plagiarism. That slight left her determined to use her writing to amplify marginalized voices. Now, her words stand as monuments to icons and unsung heroes alike.
• An artist and spoken word poet, Jeffery Boston Weatherford is illustrator of the award-winning book You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen. The acclaimed middle grades/YA verse novel was named a best book of the year by National Council for the Social Studies, Association for Library Service to Children, National Council of Teachers of English, New York Public Library and Kirkus Reviews. He has designed, illustrated and published several children’s books: Africa, A Bat Cave: An Abecedarian Bedtime Chronicle, and Princeville: The 500-Year Flood. He has presented in the U.S. and Africa and has exhibited in numerous galleries. He often collaborates with author Carole Boston Weatherford.
• Acclaimed actor and playwright Mike Wiley has spent the last decade fulfilling his mission to bring educational theatre to young audiences and communities across the country. In the early days of his career, Wiley found few theatrical resources to shine a light on key events and figures in African-American history. To bring these stories to life, he started his own production company. In addition to his numerous school and community performances, he has also appeared on Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel and National Geographic Channel and has been featured in Our State magazine and on PBS’ North Carolina Now and WUNC’s The State of Things.