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A Black History Month 2019 Evening with Justice Robert L. Wilkins, Author, "LONG ROAD TO HARD TRUTH," Wednesday, February 13th, in Chicago's Hyde Park Community

WHO:  Reformation Church Chicago's Carter G. Woodson Institute for Black Church Ministries & Studies, in Conjunction with, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History'S (ASALH'S) BLACK MIGRATIONS THEME;

WHAT:  Presents...Justice Robert L. Wilkins, Auuthor, "LONG ROAD TO HARD TRUTH;"

WHEN:  Wednesday, February 13th at 6 PM;

WHERE:  McCormick Theological Sminary's Common Room, C/o African Ministries and Black Church Studies Center, 5460 S. University Avenue, Hyde Park, Chicago IL, 60615;

HOW:  introduced by:  Justice Nathaniel R. Howse, Illinois Appeaps Court, withSpecial Invited Guests: Mr. Samuel Scott, Founder, Black Chicago Tomorrow (A Framework for Revitalization) & Dr. Lionel Kinble, Professor of History, CSU & ASALH's VP for Programs, & Rev. Dr. Stacy Edwards-Dunn, McCormic's African American Ministries and Black Church Studies Center;

WHY:  For the last two decades Robert L Wilkins has been intensely a part of the story of the creation of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.  "LONG ROAD TO HARD TRUTH," part history and part memoir, chronicles the near century mission for building a museum that would gather, preserve, celebrate, and advance the facts and artifacts of African American agency.

Contacts:  Rev. Joel Washington (Khunanpu Sangoma) via text,text, text only @ 773-499-3323.  Deaconess Marsha Washington, 773996-1066. 

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