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Women of the World Art Exhibit Reception

Takoma Park Community Center 7500 Maple Ave, Takoma Park, MD, United States

“Women of the World” is a new group exhibition with a diverse range of artwork exploring both the power and struggles of women around the world. The exhibition coincides with Women’s History Month. People can see the artwork at the free opening reception and meet the artists, including Sobia Ahmad, Omary Elliott, Olivia Tripp Morrow, […]

Lecture: Josiah Henson, The Man Behind the Myth

Takoma Park Community Center 7500 Maple Ave, Takoma Park, MD, United States

During his lifetime, Rev. Josiah Henson’s remarkable life story was closely affiliated with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which generated outrage about slavery before the Civil War. He was an enslaved man living on a plantation in Montgomery County before he escaped by walking more than 600 miles to Canada with his […]