Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 2000 — Page 3

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Black History Month Celebrates its founder

By CARL HARTMAN

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WASHINGTON (AP) — p^ck History Month began 5*lesday with a tribute to the Originator of the idea. Carter G. ^Toodson, half a century after

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~Z‘ Jacqueline Goggin, his Ifegrapher, told how he worked ^popularize a knowledge of the Ast, particularly the Africanjwnerican past. For those who 9HI find history too dry, tap dancers Brother Black and 10-year-old Cartier Anthony Williams also appeared on the program at the National Museum of Natural History. “That’s the way we always <Jd it,” said Jo Ann Webb, “we tidve a lecture and then some entertainment too.” Webb was among the officials promoting Black History programs among the 16 rfiuseums and galleries of the Smithsonian Institution. * ' Woodson, who died in 1950, fbunded what is now the Association for the Study of AfroAmerican Life and History in f915. He first proposed “Negro History Week,” held in the month that includes the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, for whom Dbuglass helped recruit Black ffoops in the Civil War. The National Gallery of Art displays the memorial sculpted by August Saint-Gaudens to the first Black unit in the war, the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. An audio taped guide with an account of the memorial by Gen. Colin Powell accompanies it. By 1976 Negro History Week had evolved into Black History Month. The Kennedy Center, which includes Washington’s opera house, a concert hall, large and small theaters and two stages for daily free performances, works hard to bring in Black audiences: This week, it scheduled a ‘ program that includes world premieres of two South African works. “At the Fountains of Mpindelela” is a multi-media tribute to Nelson Mandela. “UShaka” is a chamber version

of an oratorio by composer Mzilikazi Khumalo. Audiences also will see the first of three performances by the Ballet d’Afrique Noire of "Mandinka Epic,” which tells in dance, song and drumming the rise of the Mandinka empire that reached from north central Africa to the Atlantic coast hundreds of years ago. It explores the idea put forward by some scholars that Africans Crossed the Atlantic and founded r 1he Olmec kingdom in Central 'America. '■ Beginning Feb. 10 the Kennedy Center will put on an exhibit called “Abomey: History " Told on Walls.” It will show ‘ some of the earliest examples of Ipw-relief carving from the r palaces of the kings of Dahomey ‘ m their West African capital. ' “In a society with no written ^language,” the Kennedy Center said in announcing the show, “‘these visual stories have "perpetuated the history and myths of the Fon people.” Between Feb. 14 and Feb. ^ISCyprien Tokoudagba, an "artist from Benin, will demon-

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strate how the carvings were produced. The Philips Collection, which claims to be the first American museum of modem art, will have a program on “Migrations” by Jacob Lawrence. It’s a series of paintings that describe the movement of African Americans from the southern states to the North. To bring history up to date, the National Building Museum

will run a tour on Feb. 19 of buildings and institutions in Washington built by and for African Americans. But the Smithsonian has the most extensive program — a series of exhibits, films and live performances. It ends Feb. 29 with a lecture at the most-visited of all U.S. galleries — the Air and Space Museum — on the role of African Americans in flight.

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra invites you to hear (he local radio broadcast premiere of the lune 1999 benefit concert for the Martin Luther King |r. Multi-Service Center

Text by Dr. Martin Luther King |r. Willliam Henry Curry, Conductor Avery Brooks, Narrator Wednesday, February 16, 2000 7:30 p.m. on WFYI-FM 90.1

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