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Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum will celebrate African American heritage Saturday, and the public is invited.

This year’s celebration will feature music, dancing, storytelling and poetry.

Performers will include local spoken word artist Josephus III , Durham-based African gospel choir Ohemanna, the Kuumbia African Dancers of Greensboro, Boo Hanks and Fred Motley.

The festival also will feature two well-known local authors of children’s books. WFMY anchorwoman Carol Andrews will read her book “The Giggle Wind,” and Sonya Correll Cook will read her work “Quest for a Family Pet.” Autographed copies will be on sale.

Children will be able to participate in activities such as drumming and viewing artifacts relating to African culture from Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology and “Around the World’s Traveling Art Trunk” with the African American Atelier.

There also will be a storytellers’ tent featuring the N.C. Association of Black Storytellers.

Other featured exhibitors include the Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society, Living Life through Literacy, the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project, the North Carolina Black Repertory Company and Music Maker Relief Foundation.

Food will be for sale, and craft vendors will be on hand selling African mud cloth crafts, handmade jewelry and more.

Heritage Day events will begin at 11 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.

— Staff Reports