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Unspoken Stories

  • Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center 8270 Alumni Drive College Park, MD, 20740 United States (map)

The Taratibu Youth Association (TYA) celebrated Black History Month telling the unspoken stories of perseverance, resistance and freedom. TYA uses song, poetry, dance and music to tell the stories of perseverance by Anarcha, Betsy and Lucy, slave youth that underwent multiple surgeries by James Marion Simms, without anesthesia; the South African resistance against apartheid, the resistance of color and class in Brazil; to the struggles for freedom of African Americans. 

Earlier Event: February 9
Paint, Sip & Nibble
Later Event: February 9
A Visit with Ms. Harriett