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National Black Family Reunion. The Black Family Reunion Celebration (also written about as the National Black Family Reunion and, most recently, The Midwest Regional Black Family Reunion Celebration) is a two- to three-day cultural event, held annually the third weekend of August, to "reinforce the historic strengths and traditional values of ...
Why families make them a grand affair. Emalyn Muzzy. June 17, 2024 at 6:00 AM. When the Faulk family held their first family reunion in the 1980s, Thomasine Kashaka said she remembers watching her ...
Since the 1950s, and continuing in the 21st century, the descendants of enslaved African Americans have continued to search for their lost families. The Last Seen project, sponsored by Villanova University and Philadelphia's Methodist Episcopal Church, has digitized hundreds of family reunification ads since its launch in 2016.
An important element of Black family reunions is often the passing down of the family history in the culture’s oral tradition. In Africa, the keeper of the village history is the griot.
The Quander family is believed to be the oldest documented African-American family that has come from African ancestry to present day America. Historians believe so because they cannot find any records of any other African-American family whose ancestry has been consistently kept and published. The Quanders are from the Fanti tribe of the Akan ...
The National Museum of African American History and Culture ( NMAAHC ), colloquially known as the Blacksonian, is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. [4] It was established in 2003 and opened its permanent home in 2016 with a ceremony led by President Barack Obama .
Every other year, their descendants gather for a Hardnett Family Reunion, though they skipped last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. "I have cousins that I haven't seen or met, and I think ...
Rainbow Family. A 2007 Rainbow Gathering in Bosnia. The Rainbow Family of Living Light is a counter-culture, in existence since approximately 1970. It is a loose affiliation of individuals, some nomadic, generally asserting that it has no leader. They put on yearly, primitive camping events on public land known as Rainbow Gatherings.