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  • Hometown Teams

    Carrollton Cultural Arts Center Carrollton, GA, United States

    Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America exhibition This Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition explores what sports and “hometown teams” mean to Americans, Georgians, and local communities.

  • Grand Opening Festivities for Hometown Teams

    Downtown Amphitheater, Carrollton, GA, United States

    Grand Opening Festivities for Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America exhibition Pep rally begins at the downtown amphitheater at 9:30 a.m., followed by an old-fashioned parade through downtown Carrollton. The opening ceremony begins at 11:00 a.m. on Carrollton’s Main Street.

  • Hometown Heroes

    Carrollton Cultural Arts Center Carrollton, GA, United States

    Hometown Heroes: Sports and the 8th Grade Economics Standards Georgia Council on Economic Education presents a day-long teacher workshop focusing on the intersection of Georgia’s multi-billion dollar sports industry and economic concepts addressed in the Georgia Performance Standards. Register by December 1.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia

    Georgia Archives 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA, United States

    "Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia," by Kaye Lanning Minchew Minchew, author of A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia, will deliver a Lunch and Learn lecture about Roosevelt and his Georgia holiday traditions.

  • Atlanta Jewish Film Festival

    Various Atlanta, GA, United States

    The largest film festival in Atlanta and the largest Jewish Film Festival in the world, the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents outstanding international and independent cinema that fosters intergroup understanding among Atlanta’s diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious populations.

  • Hometown Teams in Jefferson

    Jefferson High School Arena Jefferson, GA, United States

    Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America exhibition This Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition explores what sports and “hometown teams” mean to Americans, Georgians, and local communities. Hometown Teams is on view in Jefferson from January 14, 2017, through February 25, 2017.

  • “Still Raising Hell”: Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Exhibition

    Schatten Gallery Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

    Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch exhibition

    This exhibition explores Billops and Hatch’s commitment to speaking truth to power and exploring the meaning and purpose of African American art.

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  • “African American Young Men in Jails and Wars”

    DeKalb County Public Library, Decatur Branch 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA, United States

    "African American Young Men in Jails and Wars: Walter Dean Myers’s 'Monster,' 'Fallen Angels,' and 'Sunrise over Fallujah'" Dr. Pearl McHaney presents part two of the "Connecting Lines: Building Empathy Through Literature" lecture series, sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book. To hear an interview with McHaney by "City Lights" host Lois Reitzes, click […]

  • In Plain View: African American Women Entrepreneurs of Morgan County

    Morgan County African American Museum 156 Academy Street, Madison, GA, United States

    In Plain View: African American Women Entrepreneurs of Morgan County exhibition, February 5 - April 30, 2017 Through complicated histories and narratives, documentary photographs, memorabilia, and dialogue, the exhibition In Plain View: African American Women Entrepreneurs of Morgan County, Georgia examines entrepreneurial women of the Plainview community: landowners Anna Charleston, Jessie Andrews, and Katie Lowe. […]