1. The Arkansas Minority Health Commission and Arkansas Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association Present ‘Ask The Doctor’ featuring Dr. Rhonda Mattox, M.D.
2. Rock IT! Lab Hosts Small Business Saturday (Christmas Edition)
3. Pyramid Art, Books, and Custom Framing Host, “I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife – African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era” by Rita Roberts (IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL EVENT)
I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical experience.
Amidst bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters they exchanged. Despite harsh laws against literacy and brutal practices that broke apart Black families, people found ways to write to each other against all odds. In these pages, readers will meet parents who are losing hope of ever seeing their children again and a husband who walks fifteen miles to visit his wife, enslaved on a different plantation.
The collection also includes tender courtship letters exchanged between Lewis Henry Douglass and Helen Amelia Loguen, both children of noted abolitionists, and letters sent home by the young women who traveled south to teach literacy to escaped slaves. Roberts’ expert curation allows readers to see the wider historical context. The transcriptions are accompanied by reproductions of selected original letters and photographs of the letter writers.
This Will Be An In-Person Event on Sunday, December 18 at 3pm!
Or Register for simultaneous virtual event (via Zoom) HERE
4. Bethel A.M.E. Church Presents ‘Christmas With The Art Porter Singers’
5. UAMS Healthcare Career Preparation Opportunity Introduces Its UAMS Anesthesia Tech Pipeline Program
