Community Calendar

Becky Davenport and Skip Campbell Join us for a fascinating look at Greenwood Cemetery –one of the oldest cemeteries in Tuscaloosa. Many historically prominent people are buried at Greenwood -early Alabama politicians, War soldiers, black entrepreneurs, and Tuscaloosa’s founders. Through an effort spearheaded by the Chief Tuskaloosa Chapter DAR and, in cooperation with the Cityof Tuscaloosa, the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society, and the Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance, we will particularly look at the identification and preservation of these beautiful markers which reflect the history of Tuscaloosa. You will see what work is currently being done with modern resources to maintain and preserve them, reverse the damage by corrosion and vandalism, and efforts for future solutions Register here: https://www.enrole.com/ua/jsp/index.jsp?categoryId=10237

Lou Vickery The South Alabama Tribe of Creek Indians was one of the five Native American cultures that contributed to the formation of our great state and the first to be designated as “civilized.” Our speaker is an ancestor of the Creeks and will share his vast knowledge of his family, contributions, changes, and challenges that have occurred over the tribe’s long history. Touching on General Andrew Jackson, Trail of Tears, federal road construction effect, among others, Lou will present facts, lore, and personal remembrances of this great nation Register here: https://www.enrole.com/ua/jsp/index.jsp?categoryId=10237

As part of our ongoing programming about MMofA's special exhibition&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>Gordon Parks: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></a>, we've partnered with our friends at <a href="https://www.alabamacontemporary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama Contemporary Art Center</a> to screen a series of films directed by the famed photojournalist. See the full schedule below. <b>Friday, July 16 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Shaft</i> Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. <b>Friday, September 24 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Leadbelly</i> Biography of the legendary folksinger, Huddie Ledbetter, master of the 12-string guitar and long-time convict on Texas and Louisiana chain gangs. <b>Friday, November 19 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>The Learning Tree</i> The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager and documents the veritable deluge of events that force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations, and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values. <b>About <i>GORDON PARKS: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></b> This exhibition of photographs documents the everyday activities and rituals of one extended black family, the Thorntons, in Mobile and Shady Grove, Alabama, during segregation. The images were originally published in a 1956 photo essay by Parks, an assignment from <i>Life</i> magazine after the Montgomery bus boycotts, but have come to be known around the world for helping to inspire the Civil Rights movement. <a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more&gt;&gt;</a> Community Programming support by Mobile City Council members:&nbsp; Joel Daves (District 5), Gina Gregory (District 7), Bess Rich (District 6), Frederick D. Richardson, Jr. (District 1), C.J. Small (District 3), and John C. Williams (District 4).

Mike Rogers is a former member of Congress representing Michigan’s Eighth Congressional District. He previously served as an officer in the U.S. Army and as an FBI special agent in Chicago. While in Congress, Mr. Rogers chaired the powerful House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) where he led the bipartisan Huawei investigation and report issued in 2012 and authorized and oversaw a budget of $70 billion which funded the nation’s 17 intelligence agencies.

As part of our ongoing programming about MMofA's special exhibition&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>Gordon Parks: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></a>, we've partnered with our friends at <a href="https://www.alabamacontemporary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama Contemporary Art Center</a> to screen a series of films directed by the famed photojournalist. See the full schedule below. <b>Friday, July 16 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Shaft</i> Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. <b>Friday, September 24 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Leadbelly</i> Biography of the legendary folksinger, Huddie Ledbetter, master of the 12-string guitar and long-time convict on Texas and Louisiana chain gangs. <b>Friday, November 19 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>The Learning Tree</i> The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager and documents the veritable deluge of events that force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations, and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values. <b>About <i>GORDON PARKS: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></b> This exhibition of photographs documents the everyday activities and rituals of one extended black family, the Thorntons, in Mobile and Shady Grove, Alabama, during segregation. The images were originally published in a 1956 photo essay by Parks, an assignment from <i>Life</i> magazine after the Montgomery bus boycotts, but have come to be known around the world for helping to inspire the Civil Rights movement. <a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more&gt;&gt;</a> Community Programming support by Mobile City Council members:&nbsp; Joel Daves (District 5), Gina Gregory (District 7), Bess Rich (District 6), Frederick D. Richardson, Jr. (District 1), C.J. Small (District 3), and John C. Williams (District 4).

As part of our ongoing programming about MMofA's special exhibition&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>Gordon Parks: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></a>, we've partnered with our friends at <a href="https://www.alabamacontemporary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama Contemporary Art Center</a> to screen a series of films directed by the famed photojournalist. See the full schedule below. <b>Friday, July 16 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Shaft</i> Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. <b>Friday, September 24 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Leadbelly</i> Biography of the legendary folksinger, Huddie Ledbetter, master of the 12-string guitar and long-time convict on Texas and Louisiana chain gangs. <b>Friday, November 19 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>The Learning Tree</i> The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager and documents the veritable deluge of events that force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations, and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values. <b>About <i>GORDON PARKS: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></b> This exhibition of photographs documents the everyday activities and rituals of one extended black family, the Thorntons, in Mobile and Shady Grove, Alabama, during segregation. The images were originally published in a 1956 photo essay by Parks, an assignment from <i>Life</i> magazine after the Montgomery bus boycotts, but have come to be known around the world for helping to inspire the Civil Rights movement. <a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more&gt;&gt;</a> Community Programming support by Mobile City Council members:&nbsp; Joel Daves (District 5), Gina Gregory (District 7), Bess Rich (District 6), Frederick D. Richardson, Jr. (District 1), C.J. Small (District 3), and John C. Williams (District 4).

As part of our ongoing programming about MMofA's special exhibition&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>Gordon Parks: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></a>, we've partnered with our friends at <a href="https://www.alabamacontemporary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama Contemporary Art Center</a> to screen a series of films directed by the famed photojournalist. See the full schedule below. <b>Friday, July 16 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Shaft</i> Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. <b>Friday, September 24 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Leadbelly</i> Biography of the legendary folksinger, Huddie Ledbetter, master of the 12-string guitar and long-time convict on Texas and Louisiana chain gangs. <b>Friday, November 19 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>The Learning Tree</i> The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager and documents the veritable deluge of events that force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations, and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values. <b>About <i>GORDON PARKS: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></b> This exhibition of photographs documents the everyday activities and rituals of one extended black family, the Thorntons, in Mobile and Shady Grove, Alabama, during segregation. The images were originally published in a 1956 photo essay by Parks, an assignment from <i>Life</i> magazine after the Montgomery bus boycotts, but have come to be known around the world for helping to inspire the Civil Rights movement. <a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more&gt;&gt;</a> Community Programming support by Mobile City Council members:&nbsp; Joel Daves (District 5), Gina Gregory (District 7), Bess Rich (District 6), Frederick D. Richardson, Jr. (District 1), C.J. Small (District 3), and John C. Williams (District 4).

As part of our ongoing programming about MMofA's special exhibition&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>Gordon Parks: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></a>, we've partnered with our friends at <a href="https://www.alabamacontemporary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama Contemporary Art Center</a> to screen a series of films directed by the famed photojournalist. See the full schedule below. <b>Friday, July 16 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Shaft</i> Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. <b>Friday, September 24 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Leadbelly</i> Biography of the legendary folksinger, Huddie Ledbetter, master of the 12-string guitar and long-time convict on Texas and Louisiana chain gangs. <b>Friday, November 19 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>The Learning Tree</i> The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager and documents the veritable deluge of events that force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations, and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values. <b>About <i>GORDON PARKS: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></b> This exhibition of photographs documents the everyday activities and rituals of one extended black family, the Thorntons, in Mobile and Shady Grove, Alabama, during segregation. The images were originally published in a 1956 photo essay by Parks, an assignment from <i>Life</i> magazine after the Montgomery bus boycotts, but have come to be known around the world for helping to inspire the Civil Rights movement. <a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more&gt;&gt;</a> Community Programming support by Mobile City Council members:&nbsp; Joel Daves (District 5), Gina Gregory (District 7), Bess Rich (District 6), Frederick D. Richardson, Jr. (District 1), C.J. Small (District 3), and John C. Williams (District 4).

As part of our ongoing programming about MMofA's special exhibition&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>Gordon Parks: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></a>, we've partnered with our friends at <a href="https://www.alabamacontemporary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama Contemporary Art Center</a> to screen a series of films directed by the famed photojournalist. See the full schedule below. <b>Friday, July 16 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Shaft</i> Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. <b>Friday, September 24 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>Leadbelly</i> Biography of the legendary folksinger, Huddie Ledbetter, master of the 12-string guitar and long-time convict on Texas and Louisiana chain gangs. <b>Friday, November 19 @ 6:30 pm </b><i>The Learning Tree</i> The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager and documents the veritable deluge of events that force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations, and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values. <b>About <i>GORDON PARKS: Segregation Story in Mobile, 1956</i></b> This exhibition of photographs documents the everyday activities and rituals of one extended black family, the Thorntons, in Mobile and Shady Grove, Alabama, during segregation. The images were originally published in a 1956 photo essay by Parks, an assignment from <i>Life</i> magazine after the Montgomery bus boycotts, but have come to be known around the world for helping to inspire the Civil Rights movement. <a href="https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/gordon-parks-segregation-story-in-mobile-1956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more&gt;&gt;</a> Community Programming support by Mobile City Council members:&nbsp; Joel Daves (District 5), Gina Gregory (District 7), Bess Rich (District 6), Frederick D. Richardson, Jr. (District 1), C.J. Small (District 3), and John C. Williams (District 4).