Project aims to catalog ‘African American experience in Schenectady’ | The Daily Gazette
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Members of the Refreshing Spring Young Adult Choir, under the direction of Sister Georgetta Dix, perform during inauguration ceremonies for the Schenectady City Council on Jan. 1, 1996. Historians are reaching out to churches and other organizations to help preserve and make available local Black history. Gazette file photo
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Got any Black history? If you do, and you want to preserve it and make it easily accessible for later generations, please contact Marietta Carr at the Schenectady County Historical Society.
The librarian/archivist at the society’s Grems-Doolittle Library since August of 2019, Carr is overseeing the African American Historical Records Project, an initiative of the New York State Archives.
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Like most holidays and celebrations, Kwanzaa will look a little different this year.
Running from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1, Kwanzaa is usually filled with community events, performances, speakers and activities, all culminating with a dinner.
The Hamilton Hill Arts Center has hosted a celebration for decades and was one of the few local organizations to do so until a few years ago, when several organizations in the Capital Region came together to form the Capital Region Kwanzaa Coalition. Since then, each of the organizations involved has hosted an event on one night of Kwanzaa.