As part of their "Constitution and Me" program series, join the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries for a screening of the film Willie Velasquez: Your Voice is Your Vote. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.Â
Join the Coastal Heritage Society for their 2024 Revolutionary Perspectives Lecture Series. This virtual series will feature humanities scholars from diverse areas of focus to provide a broad definition and understanding of how communities create history as well as to examine best practices in sharing history with modern audiences. Scholars include Dr. Deborah Johnson-Simon, a […]
Join the Historic Macon Foundation for a presentation by Neesha Powell-Ingabire (she/they), a coastal Georgia-born-and-raised movement journalist, essayist, and community and cultural organizer. She reports on the justice movements of the Black, trans, queer, and Southern communities to which she belongs and writes essays to recover her own history and the histories of her ancestors […]
The Decatur Book Festival returns to Decatur Square October 4-5, 2024. The event will feature author talks, readings, panel discussions, children's sessions, a vendor fair, and a keynote presentation by Joyce Carol Oates. All sessions are free to the public. This event is sponsored by Georgia Humanities.
During the 1990s, the Chattahoochee River was named the most endangered urban river in North America by American Rivers, a key conservation group. "Saving the Chattahoochee," a new documentary by filmmaker Hal Jacobs, tells the story of the dedicated Atlanta women who fought to revive and protect the Chattahoochee River and its watershed. The screening […]
