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The Wexler Grant Community School hosts a community dinner to celebrate the close of Black History Month in New Haven, Conn., on Thursday Jan. 28, 2019.. The dinner, sponsored by the Family Resource Center and Title I, is called A Night of Soul. The evening featured student entertainment by the Wexler Grant Dance Team and the Wexler Grant Drum Line. Other highlights included poetry readings, a step dance team and music by Wexler Grant alumni Derrick Gaskins.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
We’re more than a week into Black History Month and events are still being planned throughout the region to celebrate and honor the accomplishments of the Black community. ....

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