Duke Homestead and Tobacco Museum and the Hayti Heritage Center will be co-sponsoring the Durham premier of We Shall No Be Moved as a part of an on-going initiative to honor the rich and complicated stories of African American and Latino farm workers in North Carolina agricultural history.

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The Muhammad Ali | The Photographs of Sonia Katchian exhibition has been seen in four communities around the country already, including the Muhammad Ali Center, where they have said, “Sonia’s photographs of Muhammad show the gentler side of an incredibly complex, loving human being who just happened to be a boxer.” Pulitzer Prize winning journalist E.R. Shipp has said, “Your photographs are unusual — they show the human side of Ali!” Master photographer Kwaku Alston gasped when he saw The ALI Folioâ„¢, saying, “These are the best photographs of Muhammad Ali I’ve ever seen!” The testimonials keep coming in.

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St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation, Inc. once again will host the bi-annual exhibition by the African American Quilt Circle February 1 – April 6, 2008 in the Lyda Moore Merrick Gallery at the Hayti Heritage Center. This is the seventh exhibition by the Quilt Circle which holds its monthly meeting at the center for those who have a passion and interest in quilting. This group is made up of dynamic women and men of all ages from across the State of North Carolina. There membership is estimated at over 60 individuals at this time.

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