National Black Family Reunion facts for kids
The Black Family Reunion Celebration is a special event held every year. It lasts for two or three days, usually in August. This celebration helps to remember and strengthen the important traditions and values of Black families. The National Council of Negro Women helps to organize this big event.
History of the Black Family Reunion
The Black Family Reunion was started by a famous civil rights leader named Dorothy Height. She began the first celebration in 1989 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Over the years, the Black Family Reunion has also been held in many other cities across the United States. Sometimes, it even took place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., which is a large park often used for important events.
The main goal of the Reunion is to bring people, companies, and communities together. It focuses on the strong history and values of Black families. It also aims to show and strengthen the good morals that have always been a part of Black family life.
In 2009, the 24th annual Black Family Reunion Celebration had its first day of activities near the Washington Monument. This was on September 12th.
In 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reunion mostly happened online. There was also a one-day event held in Sawyer Point Park.
Art and the Reunion
In 1994, a group called the National Black McDonald's Operators Association asked an artist named Byron Peck to paint a mural. A mural is a large painting on a wall. This mural was about the Black Family Reunion and was painted on 14th Street in Washington, D.C.
Byron Peck worked with three students and three other artists to create the mural. He used family photos from a friend to show different generations of a family in the painting. Later, in 2012, new buildings being built in the area almost covered up this special mural.
See also
- Dorothy Height
- National Council of Negro Women
- National Museum of African American History
- African-American family structure
