Community
Please join the Westerville Progressive Alliance in a silent candlelight vigil to honor and remember all victims of ICE.
Meet in front of Westerville City Hall Wednesday, February 11th a little before 6:00 pm. We will have candles or you may bring your own (real or battery-operated).
Although our location might be noisy, we will gather silently. Brief words will be shared and then we will wordlessly shine our light and be in community with one another.
NO signs, noisemakers or musical instruments, please.
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.