ARKANSAS, USA — Black History Month is officially underway and we're excited to help you find an event in your area to celebrate.
According to blackhistorymonth.gov, Black History Month is a month "paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society." The website says African American traditions "reflect the history and creative spirit of African American and other cultures of the African diaspora."
Multiple events are held across the area to help celebrate Black culture and traditions. Here's a list of events in Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley that you can join to help celebrate.
List of events
Bentonville
- Feb 3: Magic Show with Tommy Terrific at Bentonville Library at noon.
Springdale
- Feb. 18: Springdale's MLK/Black History Month Family Fun Day at The Medium, A Place to Create from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Fayetteville
- Feb. 9 and 10: Arkansas Black Film & Music Expo at Fayetteville Town Center 9-10 p.m.
- Feb. 17: Inaugural Black History Month Scholarship Prayer Breakfast at The Historic St. James Missionary Baptist Church at 8 a.m.
- Feb. 29: Black Owned NWA Business Expo from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Rogers
- Feb. 3: Two year anniversary of The Shade is Real celebration for ages 25 and up! At Aloft Hotel from 7-11 p.m.
- Feb. 4: Black Girl Magic Brunch "Let's Talk Beauty" at the Kellogg's Building off J.B. Hunt Drive from noon to 4 p.m. from 1-4 p.m.
Fort Smith
- Feb. 1: Smithsonian Exhibition: A Place for All People at the Fort Smith Museum of History from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Feb. 1-29: Black History Month Book Hunt at the Fort Smith Public Main Library during regular hours.
- Feb. 1: Black History Month Scavenger Hunt at Fort Smith Miller Branch Library during regular hours.
- Feb. 1: Black History Month Storytime and book signing event at Fort Smith Miller Branch Library from 6-7 p.m.
- Feb. 1: Black History Month Quilt Craft at Fort Smith Miller Branch Library all day.
- Feb. 2: Black History Movie Matinee - at Fort Smith Main Library from 2-3:20 p.m.
- Feb. 8: Afroman live performance at the Majestic at 7 p.m.
- Feb. 10: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity in Action Parade at 7th Street and Garrison Avenue in Downtown at 10 a.m.
- Feb. 10: Saturday Cinema: Hidden Figures (PG) at Windsor branch library from 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
- Feb. 15: Black History at the District at Bakery District from 1-9 p.m.
- Feb. 21: Fighting Jim Crow: Black Deputy U.S. Marshals in the 20th Century at the U.S. Marshals Museum from 12-1 p.m.
- Feb. 23: Program and Book Signing with Janis F. Kearney at the Fort Smith Museum of History
- Feb. 24: Saturday Cinema: Tuskegee Airmen at the Windsor Branch Library from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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