Black History program honors culture, faith

LAURA MCFARLAND

Managing Editor

POWHATAN – Celebrating the progress that has been made in the United States while still recognizing there is work to do was a key message delivered during the Powhatan NAACP’s Black History Month program on Saturday. A crowd of about 75 people gathered for the event held at Greenbrier Baptist Church that was part cultural celebration and part church service. The program, “Together in Unity,” brought together participants from various Powhatan churches and organizations for an afternoon of messages and music. The roughly two-hour program included musical selections from the Rev. Shirley Potts, the James E. Robinson Memorial Choir, and Shiloh Baptist Church Choir members and a performance by the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church Praise Dancers.

Powhatan NAACP President Gail Hairston thanked everyone who attended the first program back in the church since before

PHOTO BY LAURA MCFARLAND the COVID-19 pandemic. “God has allowed us to be back

Wednesday, March 1, 2023