Community

This year's celebration will take place on February 24 in Columbus City Council Chambers beginning at 6 p.m.

Our keynote speaker this year is Columbus native and author Wil Haygood. You can read more about our speaker below.

Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Join Columbus Metropolitan Library staff members from the Local History and Genealogy Department to learn about the Negro Motorist Green Book, a guide published from 1936 to 1966 to help Black Americans navigate the dangers of segregation and discrimination while traveling the U.S. Explore the history of the guide, Central Ohio Green Book sites and the people who made them possible in our community.

Recommended for ages 13 and up.

This presentation will explore the Social Justice Curator’s recent investigative efforts to learn more about the inhabitants who called Little Africa, Bucktown, and Little Bucktown home in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. By sourcing newspaper archives and census data, she will demonstrate how she uses the resources of her public library to learn about the built environment around her.

Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Join us for a program showcasing central Ohioans’ role in the Underground Railroad and how to find homes that may have been stops on it.

Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Join the Thiossane (pronounced cha-sahn) Institute for a special performance and experience the richness of West African culture through dance and music to create a space of learning and growth through traditional African culture. There will be a question-and-answer session after the performance. 

The FACO (First Aid Central Ohio) Street Medic Training application is now open!

Columbus City Hall main entrance, 11 am.

Join Indivisible Central Ohio as we volunteer at Mid-Ohio Food Collective's Gantz Rd Market.

Slots available for Wednesday, February 18, 5-7:30pm. 

Our work will be indoors, helping shoppers through the choice food market. We will be doing tasks like greeting, explaining the process & helping guide shoppers through the market, facing and stocking shelves, assisting with the checkout process, retrieving carts and possibly other tasks TBD. 

We will email everyone who signs up with more info closer to the date. 

Come help assemble ICE Watch whistle kits to distribute to the community!

We have the materials, you provide the people-power! This is a practical and fun way to support our communities.

For privacy, we will email you the address after you sign up. This will take place in Clintonville.

(It is appreciated if you bring scissors).