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2 – 3:15 pm Museum Tour:
And Still We Rise
[web site]		 Charles H. Wright Museum
of African American History
3:30 – 4:45 pm Plenary Session:
African American Families
Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson
Director of Exhibitions and Research
 Contemporary Gallery
5:15 – 6:15 pm Walking Tour:
The Heidelberg Project
Tyree Guyton, Artist
Jenenne Whitfield, Executive Director
[web site]
Heidelberg Street
6:30 – 8:30 pm Dinner (on your own)
Groves Board of Director's Dinner Meeting Hilton Garden Inn
Board Room
8:30 – 9:30 pm Self-Reflection Hour:
Families and Racism
Facilitator: Algea O. Harrison-Hale
Dept. of Psychology, Oakland University
 Salon Room
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And Still We Rise

This long-term exhibition serves as the central experience of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The 22,000 square-foot exhibition space contains more than 20 galleries that allow patrons to travel over time and across geographic boundaries. The journey begins in prehistoric Africa, the cradle of human life. Guests then witness several ancient and early modern civilizations that evolved on the continent. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean, they experience the tragedy of the middle passage and encounter those who resisted the horrors of bondage, emancipated themselves and sometimes took flight by way of the Underground Railroad. Throughout this trip, the efforts of everyday men and women who built families, businesses, educational institutions, spiritual traditions, civic organizations and a legacy of freedom and justice in past and present-day Detroit are hailed.