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National CleanUp Day is an annual event in the USA, encouraging organized cleanup efforts, held on the third Saturday of September. The event is held in conjunction with World Cleanup Day . The US event, organized by non-profit organization Clean Trails, promotes individual and community volunteer activities to keep outdoor spaces clean and ...
The logo is one of the West African Adinkra symbols: for 'ram’s horns', meaning humility and strength. Civil rights attorney/writer Tina Burnside and education administrator Coventry Cowens met in 2017, and together, in September 2018, the two founded MAAHMG as one of the state's first African American history museums. [4]
Keep America Beautiful cleanup volunteers in 2021. Keep America Beautiful is a nonprofit organization founded in 1953. It is the largest community improvement organization in the United States, with more than 700 state and community-based affiliate organizations and more than 1,000 partner organizations.
Items must be set out by 6 a.m. on the scheduled day. Desks, doors chairs and can all be accepted. Appliances, yard waste, broken glass and tires should all be saved for designated cleanups.
African-American art is known as a broad term describing visual art created by African Americans. The range of art they have created, and are continuing to create, over more than two centuries is as varied as the artists themselves. [ 1 ]
The National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) is a center in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1968 by Elma Lewis to "preserv[e] and foster the cultural arts heritage of black peoples worldwide through arts teaching, and the presentation of professional works in all fine arts disciplines."
The African American Museum of the Arts is an art museum, art gallery, and performance space located at 325 South Clara Avenue in DeLand, Florida. It contains a revolving display of art, and over 150 African-related artifacts. [2] The museum was the brainchild of Irene D. and Maxwell Johnson.
Canby is named for Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, [7] a Civil War general who was later killed in the Modoc War by Captain Jack and his group of warriors. The area was known as Baker Prairie [7] when the community was founded in 1857. [8] Canby was platted in 1870. [9] Canby was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on February 15, 1893 ...