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Kwanzaa 2025 - It's All About The Children
Date: December 26, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Henderson-Hopkins Elementary
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN.
The Annual Kwanzaa of the National Great Blacks In Wax Museum, in partnership with the Men and Families Center, is all about the children.
Our Umoja (unity) gift to the community acknowledges, showcases, uplifts, and greatly appreciates the talents, the creativity and the unlimited possibilities within our children. Knowing the African Proverb: "A CHILD IS WHAT YOU PUT INTO HIM" we give thanks to those doing the work.
In the African Oral Tradition expressions of rhythms, songs, movements and stories will be given. Motivational, and memorable performances and presentations will come through and from the Community of Academic Scholars, Dance Happens, Inc., the Growing Griots, Keur Khaleyi Kids (K3), Power FTP (For The People) and members of the National Association of Black Storytellers, Inc.
-Book Giveaways
-Food
-Museum Wax Figure
-Raffle Drawings
Registration Required.
Guest Performances: TBA
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Past Programming & Public Events
Annual Voices of History Street Fair 2024
Annual Kwanzaa Celebration 2024
Celebrate Kwanzaa with us as we uplift the creativity, talents, and boundless potential of our youth through rhythms, songs, dances, and stories in the African Oral Tradition.
Highlights Include: Book Giveaways, Food, Museum Wax Figure, and Raffle Drawings
Guest Performances By: Keur Khaleyi Kids, Dance Happens, Inc., Community of Academic Scholars LLC, The Growing Griots, and POWERFTP
Presented by the National Great Blacks In Wax Museum & Men and Families Center. Sponsors: DiscoverMe/RecoverMe and T.E.A.C.H.
Power Tools and Wax Figures 2024
Photo: Jim Burger
Tools and Wax Figures: Learning and Co-Teaching with Baltimore Communities.
Hosted at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum and Station North Tool Library, the event brought together scholars, students, and community leaders for two unforgettable days of collaboration and dialogue.
Special Thanks to Dr. Blanks-Jones and Johns Hopkins Center for Social Concern
Photo: Jim Burger
Free Outdoor Community Event with vendors, food, music & performances, a children’s area, and informational booths: health, wellness, and community resources.
Partners: with DiscoverME/RecoverME and the T.E.A.C.H. program!
Black Storytelling: Public Health in the Black World: Spring 2023
Game Night at the Museum featuring Dr. Lawrence Brown's Urban Cipher
A Game Night workshop offering valuable insight into fair housing activism.
This game illuminates Baltimore's structural inequities, illustrating how policies like redlining have widened the wealth gap. Participants play the game, followed by a debrief led by Dr. Lawrence and a tour of the "Cash Crop Exhibit" by Stephen Hayes. Dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..
Black Storytelling Presentations: Spring 2024
A Community Engagement course in partnership with the Center for Social Concern.
This course examines the work and research of young artists from Liberia, West Africa, who used street theatre to teach best practices for prevention during the Ebola crisis and considers how their use of dialogical performance contributed to critical knowledge, which iteratively informed interventions throughout their awareness campaign.
A Community Engagement course in partnership with the Center for Social Concern.
This course examines the work and research of young artists from Liberia, West Africa, who used street theatre to teach best practices for prevention during the Ebola crisis and considers how their use of dialogical performance contributed to critical knowledge, which iteratively informed interventions throughout their awareness campaign.
Photo by Sierra Romero
We are celebrating 40 years of Uncompromising Truth!
Learn more about our resent 40th Anniversary Celebration! Click the link below to see a recap of the event.