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Sponsored by GRU Augusta, The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, Phi Chi Chapter and Queensborough Bank.

Georgia Regents University’s Health Care Initiative will be held over the next several months in partnership with Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History and Phi Chi Chapter Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc.

Health Fairs will be from 10am - 2pm at various locations from April through October and are free to Public.

Services include Health Education, Blood Pressure Checks, Blood Sugar Checks and more!

Dates and locations are:

May 18, 2013: Jennings Place - 1690 Olive Road
June 15, 2013: Oak Pointe - 730 East Boundary

For more information contact Ms. Christine Betts at 706-724-3576 or Gwen Smith at 706-721-5939.

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May 27 - 31 and June 3 - 7
at The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History

This year we will have many exciting activities for students:

Movies at Regal Cinema
Animals from the Savannah River Ecology Lab
The Augusta Canal
Puppetry with Tawanna Kelly and Joy
Tour of WAGT with Jay Jefferies
and many more exciting activities!

For more information please call 706.724.3576.

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Tawanna Kelly and Joy

Wednesday May 15, 2013
11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Tawanna is the founder and CEO of J.O.Y Productions . She is from Bath, SC and now lives in Grovetown,GA.

She and her Puppet Pal "JOY" have been performing across the country extensively for over 22 years, sharing the message of unity, love, and laughter to audiences of all ages. They have made several television appearances on major networks, radio shows, Gospel Comedy showcases, won several Talent Show competitions, pageants, and wasa featured artist on the BET Bobby Jones Gospel making history as an award winning African-American Female Ventriloquist. Currently she is married to Min. Bernard Kelly of 14 yrs.w and the mother of two daughters Moriah and Kimberly Kelly. he Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History presents an exhibition In honor of Dr. Rice, 23rd National President of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.

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May 1 - 31, 2013

The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History presents an exhibition In honor of Dr. Rice, 23rd National President of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.

Celebrating 100 Years of Distinguished Sisterhood

The Centennial Celebration in Augusta, Georgia is in honor of our 23rd National President, Dr. Louise A. Rice, who is a resident of Augusta. On January 1, 2013, members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, began our Centennial Celebration. On New Year's Day, a 22-city international tour of the Delta Centennial Torch, which symbolizes the organization's global commitment to Sisterhood, Scholarship and Community Service, began in Los Angeles, and will tour in Augusta, GA, on May 4, 2013.

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Children's Festival Photos now available for viewing!

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April Event Photos now available for viewing!

Phinizy Swamp Visits the Museum
Veterans Visit the Museum
Museum Birthday Celebration

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Dr. Louise A. Rice

Saturday, May 4, 2013, 10:00 am

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. will present the Centennial Torch Parade on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 10:00 am.

Come out and enjoy the parade as we celebrate 100 years of Sisterhood, Scholarship and Community Service.

The parade can be viewed along the following route:

· Begin at Lucy C. Laney Football Practice Field(Mill Street behind C.T. Walker School)
· Turn right onto Wrightsboro Road; proceed to Augusta Avenue
· Turn right onto Augusta Avenue; proceed to Laney-Walker Boulevard
· Turn right onto Laney-Walker Boulevard; proceed to Ninth Street
· Turn right onto Ninth Street; proceed to Wrightsboro Road
· Turn right onto Wrightsboro Road; return to LCL Football Practice Field.

Celebrating 100 Years of Distinguished Sisterhood

The Centennial Celebration in Augusta, Georgia is in honor of our 23rd National President, Dr. Louise A. Rice, who is a resident of Augusta. On January 1, 2013, members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, began our Centennial Celebration. On New Year's Day, a 22-city international tour of the Delta Centennial Torch, which symbolizes the organization's global commitment to Sisterhood, Scholarship and Community Service, began in Los Angeles, and will tour in Augusta, GA, on May 4, 2013.

The Centennial Torch tour will culminate at Delta Sigma Theta Sorority's 51st national convention in Washington, D.C., which is scheduled for July 11-17, 2013.

For your Greek Paraphernalia, visit the vendor tables in front of Laney C. Laney Football Stadium.

For additional information, contact Linda Johnson at waterfountain0@yahoo.com.

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Friday, May 3, 2013, 7:30 pm - Midnight

Savannah Rapids Pavilion
3300 Evans to Lock Road
Martinez, Georgia

Tickets $35.00
Formal Attire

For more information contact Chandra Tennpenney at 615.507.9711

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Sponsored by GRU Augusta, The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, Phi Chi Chapter and Queensborough Bank.

Georgia Regents University’s Health Care Initiative will be held over the next several months in partnership with Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History and Phi Chi Chapter Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc.

Health Fairs will be from 10am - 2pm at various locations from April through October and are free to Public.

Services include Health Education, Blood Pressure Checks, Blood Sugar Checks and more!

Dates and locations are:

May 18, 2013: Jennings Place - 1690 Olive Road
June 15, 2013: Oak Pointe - 730 East Boundary

For more information contact Ms. Christine Betts at 706-724-3576 or Gwen Smith at 706-721-5939.

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March Event Photos now available for viewing!

Annual Trip to Atlanta
Students Tour Redcliffe Plantation and Ursula Collins Elementary School
First Day of Spring

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Saturday, April 20, 2013, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History

The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History in partnership with Tabernacle Baptist Church presents the Annual Children's Festival...

Featured Attractions:
Fire Engine
Face Painting
Tours of the Museum
And much, much more!!!!

Free to the public!

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April 9 - 10, 2013, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Jones Creek Golf Course and the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History

Registration please call 706-724-3576
Facilitator: Coach Herman Belton, Paine College

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Judge Mablean Ephriam

Sunday, March 10, 2013, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History

The Georgia Association Of Black Women Attorneys, Cutno Dance Group, and The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History welcome Judge Mablean Ephriam on Sunday, March 10, 2013, 5:00 – 8:00 pm, at The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, 1116 Phillips Street, Augusta, Georgia. Admission is $10, Adults Only, Hors D’oeuvres will be served. Judge Mablean will share her life experiences and her new book "Life Lessons: Tools For Weekly Living."

Autographed copies will be available for purchase.

Monday, March 11, 2013, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
The Kroc Center, 1833 Broad Street
Augusta, Georgia

Judge Mablean will be "Bridging The Gap" with a discussion directed to mothers and daughters.  Autographed copies of "Life Lessons: Tools For Weekly Living" will be available for purchase.

Cutno Dance will perform. Admission is $5.00 for Adults and no charge for students..

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Nancy Wellington Bookhart

March 1 - April 30, 2013

Opening reception: Sunday, March 3, 3:00 - 5:00 pm

The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History is proud to present a solo exhibition of mixed media works by Nancy Wellington Bookhart entitled "Alterations: Fashioning a Black Identity."

Bookhart, producing artwork in her usual theme of social consciousness, forces us to face the rather dismal moments in African American history, and to observe the metamorphosis of our people and culture through the Harlem Renaissance movement. She explains:

"Our [African Americans] family album is filled with memories of these atrocities, mutilations...blasphemous humanity--haunting images. Humanity forever stained. These are not foreign to us, though history has removed the stench and horror of them, even perhaps to the point of desensitization, they still lay bare the soul--they are our heritage. Crafted out the dark and empty abyss of slavery, the unsubstantiated place of Reconstruction, and the negativity of the Antebellum, a new Negro had to be designed, constructed--outlined. A pattern, a blueprint must be created. The greatest minds were assembled to orchestrate a plan. The Harlem Renaissance emerged to deconstruct, and to reconstruct a disparate people--to fashion a new black identity."

Currently an assistant professor of art at Paine College (Augusta, Ga.), Bookhart is the director of the African American Museum Initiative. The Wilson, N.C., native received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Augusta State University in Augusta, Ga., and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga.

Admission for the exhibition and for the opening reception is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and military w/ID, and $2 for children.

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Augusta, GA -- Lives silenced by death have been given a voice. They are being heard through the papers inside a file cabinet. Each page tells about a past that is helping to unlock valuable information in the present.

"My aunt was so dear to me that I wanted to memorialize her name," says historian Gloria Ramsey Lucas.

Lucas is talking about her aunt Eula Ramsey Johnson. She died many years ago, leaving more than 300 funeral programs...pieces of paper that would typically be thrown out as trash were collected by Lucas who viewed them as treasures.

"Early on, they didn't tell you too much except where the person came from, usually, which is important also because a lot of people migrated to a large city and Augusta is considered a large city from small towns and those small towns would be mentioned in the funeral program. So, you have someplace to go to find out more," Lucas says.

Lucas has done extensive research on her family, tracing her roots to slaves in Edgefield County. She chronicled her trip through time in a book that lists thousands of slaves owned and sold in the area. Now, the seed from Lucas's aunt's funeral programs has grown to nearly 4,000.

East Central Georgia Library historian Dottie Demarest says the programs are coming from across the country. "A lot of people who had relatives go up to Brooklyn, up to New York, mostly that corridor...Pennsylvania and Washington. They will send the programs back to us to put here," she says.

The programs are mostly from the past 40 years. Some stand out more than others, but each offers a fascinating public look into private lives. The collection even has the program of a former slave who died in 1972. "It tells about the plantation, about her life, her children. They would never know this information without something like this," Demarest says.

The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History is a partner in the effort to collect African-American funeral programs. Historian Corey Rogers spearheaded the project and says many people saved programs as a souvenir of sorts from an important event.

"You know, older members of the community...it was almost like an event. It's like, 'we're going to someone's funeral'. (laughing) It's like we're going to a football game. It wasn't looked at in morbid details. It was a natural part of life," Rogers says.

It's a part of life that now provides a glimpse of a past that has helped family members unearth buried information.

"What the funeral programs allow you to do, in a way, is double check and back up some of the information that you might find through the Census," Rogers says.

Now, that once elusive information is within reach in a central location, thanks to one woman whose precious mementos became a memorial.

"My aunt would be pleased to know that she saved those for a purpose," says Lucas.

The East Central Georgia Regional Library and Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History welcome donations of funeral programs. For information on how to donate, click here. You don't have to give up the programs...they will make copies and give you back the original.

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January 31, 2013

Almost one month after the new Richmond County Technical Career Magnet School opened its doors, The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History became the first organization to donate a piece of artwork for the school Thursday.

Museum executive director Christine Miller-Betts presented a print of a Romare Bearden piece dating to the Harlem Renaissance to Principal Renee Kelly.

"You never know how seeing art will inspire people who go by it,” Miller-Betts said. “This school will provide that kind of stimulation to our students, so that’s why I’m so excited about it."

The trip doubled as a way to present the gift and also provide a tour of the school for John Franklin, the director of partnership and international programs for the Smithsonian Institution. Franklin is in Augusta to serve as the guest speaker for the 7th annual Lucy C. Laney Heritage Gala on Saturday.

Franklin is a part of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian’s $500 million project set to open in 2015. Considered to be 150 years in the making, since the effort was first pushed by the black veterans of the Civil War, Franklin said part of the process of opening the museum is talking to young people across the country and spreading the word about a much needed historical structure.

"There’s always different ways of looking at this side of history,” Franklin said. “The African-American side has not always been told."

Kelly said the visit and the gift is a much needed start to filling the school with art and decorations that will inspire students.

The campus is the district’s first technical magnet school and offers a variety of pathways from culinary arts to broadcasting.

"This is our first piece of art," Kelly said. "We needed this."

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Click to visit our Gallery to view photos of the events below:

7th Annual Lucy Craft Laney Museum Heritage Gala

Book Signing with Mark T. Walker, Janaka Bowman Lewis and Charles E. Smith, II

Jack and Jill (Atlanta Chapter) Tours Augusta

February Luncheon featuring Dr. Mac A. Bowman, cardiologist and the Diamond Lakes Elementary Honor Choir and Dance Team

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
5:30 pm

Rev. Charles S. Hamilton and Rev. Nathaniel T. Young to be honored.

Join us as we recognize the legacy of the late Rev. Charles S. Hamilton, former pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, and the late Rev. Nathaniel T. Young, former pastor of Thankful Baptist Church.

This event is free to the public.

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Saturday, January 26, 2013
5:00 pm

Admission: $2 per person

Join the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History as we feature outstanding authors.

Mark T. Walker is the author of "Christian Life Talk: The Journey of a Flawed Saint." Groomed in the neighborhood of Barton Village in Augusta, Ga., Walker was determined to destroy the odds and prove God is able to do all things. He is a successful husband, father, and senior intelligence analyst holding two advanced degrees from George Mason University and Mercyhurst University respectively.

Also on hand will be Janaka Bowman Lewis, PhD, assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and author of "Brown All Over," a children’s book geared toward the celebration of African American heritage, and Charles E. Smith, II, minister, president and CEO of Christian Love Books, LLC, and author of He That Findeth a Wife: A Christian Guide to Finding the Helpmate God Has For You.

Book signing and panel discussion to be moderated by Augusta's own Dee Griffin.

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December Photos now available for viewing!

Festival of Trees

December Luncheon with Rev. Dr. Charles Goodman, Jr. and theAugusta Chorale

Book Signing for Janaka Bowman Lewis, Ph.D

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
$10.00 per person

Dr. Mac A. Bowman, cardiologist with the University Hospital Health System, will be discussing heart health.

Call us to RSVP by Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
$10.00 per person

Discussion of the Emancipation Proclamation with Maj. John Baker and a performance by Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar (tentatively scheduled)

The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed all slaves to be free in 1863.

Join us as for a discussion on this important occurrence in history with Maj. John Baker, USA, Ret. Baker served for over 20 years in the U. S. Army working in telecommunications, and as a transportation and acquisitions officer. He currently teaches high school U. S. History and
American Government.

Gospel group Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar (tentatively scheduled) recently released their full-length debut album Limitless in November 2012. McLaughlin currently serves as Interim Minister of Worship and Arts for Tabernacle Baptist Church.

Call us to RSVP by Tuesday, January 8, 2013. (Extended deadline)

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January 1 - February 28, 2013

The Ebony Legacy is one of the permanent collections of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History.

Ebony Legacy images will also be displayed at Georgia Health Sciences University through January.

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