Black History Month Celebration

What’s Your Mobile Black History Story?

Throughout February, join us in exploring and celebrating the stories of African Americans in the labor movement, their contributions, and local generational histories with the series: “What’s Your Mobile Black History?”

Would you like to share your story? The Black History Month Advisory Group will work together to create a video series featuring Mobilians stories that will be shared on the City of Mobile Events Department social media channels and at the Black History Month Celebration. Email your story to events@cityofmobile.org for a chance to be featured! The deadline to submit your story is January 30.

Art Showcase

In celebration of Black History Months, we’re seeking talented artists to showcase their work highlighting the stories, struggles, and triumphs of African Americans in the labor movement. Show us your artistic expressions of resilience, progress and the contributions of Black laborers to society!

Whether you’re a painter, sculptor, photographer, or mixed-media artist, we want to see your perspective on this powerful theme. Your art will be showcased at the Black History Month Celebration on February 1. Sign up for free by January 30 by clicking here.

Black History Month Celebration

Join on on February 1 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico for the City of Mobile’s Black History Month Celebration! This February, the national theme is African Americans & Labor.

During this celebration, you may check out local art, watch a performance by the Mobile, AL Africatown Drummers, hear local stories, and sit in a listening session. The “Working with the City” listening session will be hosed by the Office of Supplier Diversity and will explore how you can become a venodor contractor with your local government.

Schedule

• Mobile Alabama Africatown Drummers (2:00 PM & 2:30 PM)
• Art Showcase (2:00-5:00 PM)
• Spoken Word w/ PowerLines Poetry (2:15 PM)
• What’s Your Mobile Black History Stories? (3:15-5:00 PM)
• Working With the City Session (Office of Supplier Diversity) – (2:30-3:00 PM)
• St. John’s Deliverance Temple, Inc. Choir (3:30-4:00 PM)

This is a FREE event, and light refreshments will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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For further inquiries, please email events@cityofmobile.org or contact us at 251-208-1550. This is a rain-or-shine event. By attending this event you agree to be photographed