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SUMMARY:3rd Annual Black Sacred Music Weekend
DESCRIPTION:The Nashville Black Music Association and Scarritt Bennett Center present the third annual Black Sacred Music Weekend entitled “When We Sing Together: The Power of Singing Congregations” \nThis weekend celebrates the rich traditions of congregational singing and explores the spiritual\, cultural\, and musical impact of Black sacred music on our communities. \n\nFriday\, February 27\, 2026\nEvening Concert Featuring the W. Crimm Singers entitled “Over My Head: Sacred Sounds of the American South”\n7 pm CT in Wightman Chapel on the Scarritt Bennett Campus. \nFree and open to the public. Please register to let us know you are coming! \n  \n\nSaturday\, February 28\, 2026\nCongregational Singing Workshop Day\n10 am – 6 pm CT in Harambee Auditorium on the Scarritt Bennett Campus. \nCost: $30 includes lunch. Register now! \n\n10:00am – 10:50am Session I Tim Dillinger\n11:00am – 11:50am Session II Dr. Emorja Roberson\n12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch Break\n1:00pm – 1:50pm Session III Dr. Amber Dromgoole\n2:00pm – 2:50pm Session IV Dr. Nathan and Suzanne Young\n3:00pm – 3:50pm Session V Dr. San Franklin\n5:00pm Closing Session Voices Behind the Music\n\n\nSunday\, March 1\, 2026\nWhen We Sing Together: The Power of Singing Congregations\nThis closing event will feature Nashville Gospel Coalition Choir\, Christian Walker\, Choir Director. \nBe there for this inspiring moment\, 2:30 pm Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church\, 1307 Ireland Street\, Nashville 37208. \n  \n 
URL:https://scarrittbennett.org/event/3rd-annual-black-sacred-music-weekend/
LOCATION:Scarritt Bennett Center\, Wightman Chapel\, 1110 19th Avenue South\, Nashville\, 37212\, United States
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SUMMARY:Women of Faith Panel 2026: Legacy in Her Hands – Women of Faith Keeping the Dream Alive
DESCRIPTION:📅 Sunday\, January 11\, 2026 | 3:00 PM\n📍 Scarritt Bennett Center | Harambee Auditorium\n1008 19th Ave. S\, Nashville\, TN 37212\nHosted by Scarritt Bennett Center Racial Justice Ministries as part of the Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship’s Annual MLK Week\n\nEvent Overview\nJoin us for the 4th Annual Women of Faith Panel\, a signature event of the Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship’s MLK Week hosted by Scarritt Bennett Center’s Racial Justice Ministries.\nThis year’s theme\, “Legacy in Her Hands: Women of Faith Keeping the Dream Alive\,” celebrates the women who carry Dr. King’s vision forward—resisting despair\, nurturing hope\, and building the Beloved Community through service\, justice\, and unity.\nIn a time of systemic injustice and moral crisis\, this intergenerational conversation will uplift how women of faith continue to lead\, heal\, and inspire movements for change.\n\nFeaturing\n✨ Mrs. Gloria Haugabook McKissack\nCivil Rights Activist | Educator | Freedom Rider\nA veteran of the Nashville Sit-In Movement and member of SNCC\, Mrs. McKissack broke barriers as one of the first African American educators to teach in an integrated Nashville school. Her lifetime of work in education and social justice continues to empower new generations of leaders.\n✨ Rev. Alisha Smith Haddock\nVice President & Director of Community Impact\, The Housing Fund\nChair\, Nashville Community Review Board\nA millennial faith leader and community visionary\, Rev. Haddock builds bridges between faith\, housing\, and equity—helping to create healthy\, thriving neighborhoods through justice-centered leadership and civic engagement.\n✨ Ms. Diamond Bell\nYouth Coordinator\, Southern Movement Committee\nA proud Nashville native and Gen Z organizer\, Diamond uses her lived experience and deep empathy to mobilize young people\, fight systemic injustice\, and reimagine community grounded in love\, equity\, and belonging.\n\nAbout the Conversation\nModerated by Rev. Kelli X\, Director of Racial Justice Ministries at Scarritt Bennett Center and Senior Pastor of The Village Church Nashville\, this year’s panel will explore how faith\, justice\, and collective action remain vital tools for transforming our communities and carrying forward the dream Dr. King envisioned.\nCome ready to be inspired by the voices\, stories\, and spiritual power of women who embody legacy in motion.\n\n🕊️ Free and open to the public. Registration required.\nLight refreshments will be served following the program.\n\nRegister here.
URL:https://scarrittbennett.org/event/women-of-faith-panel-2026-legacy-in-her-hands-women-of-faith-keeping-the-dream-alive/
LOCATION:Scarritt Bennett Center\, Harambee Auditorium\, 1027 18th Ave. S.\, Nashville\, TN\, 37212\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poet’s Corner Featuring | Anjetta (Anjie) William-Brown
DESCRIPTION:Let Us Know You Are Coming\n    \n\n    Download the Flyer\n    \nPoet’s Corner Featuring Anjetta (Anjie) Williams-Brown📅 Thursday\, November 20\, 2025 | 7:00 PM📍 Harambee Auditorium | Scarritt Bennett Center\, Nashville\, TN🎟 Free Admission | All Are Welcome🌟 Optional Open Mic Sign-Up Available \nJoin us for a powerful evening of poetic reflection\, wisdom\, and community connection at Poet’s Corner\, Scarritt Bennett Center’s monthly poetry reading series. This November\, we are honored to welcome featured poet Anjetta (Anjie) Williams-Brown—a dynamic voice in Nashville’s literary and academic circles. \nA lifelong leader and storyteller\, Anjie Williams-Brown recently retired from Tennessee State University after 22 years of service as Business Coordinator. She was the first African American woman in Tennessee to earn the prestigious Educational Facilities Professional certification and has served in leadership roles across multiple civic\, educational\, and poetry organizations. \nA graduate of both the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Tennessee State University\, Anjie is an advocate for empowerment through education\, communication\, and creative expression. Her debut poetry collection\, Pieces of Anjie: Poetry from My Soul\, was self-published in December 2022 and marks the beginning of her journey to share more inspirational writing through various mediums. \n🌟 Open Mic Sign-Up Optional – Arrive early if you’d like to share your work.☕ Light Refreshments Provided📌 Admission is free\, and all are welcome – Whether you’re a seasoned poet or new to the art\, Poet’s Corner is a space to be inspired\, reflect\, and connect.👉 Mark your calendar and join us for a night of poetry\, presence\, and powerful storytelling. \n\n🏛 About Scarritt Bennett Center\nScarritt Bennett Center is a nonprofit education\, retreat\, and conference center in Nashville\, TN. Our mission is to create space where individuals and groups engage each other to achieve a more just world. We live out this mission through four core tenets: transformative education\, spiritual enrichment\, racial justice\, and women’s empowerment. The Center fosters a welcoming environment for dialogue\, reflection\, and action. \n\n    Let Us Know You Are Coming\n    \n 
URL:https://scarrittbennett.org/event/poets-corner-featuring-anjetta-anjie-william-brown/
LOCATION:Scarritt Bennett Center\, Harambee Auditorium\, 1027 18th Ave. S.\, Nashville\, TN\, 37212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Literature,Soul Work
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SUMMARY:Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice: Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century
DESCRIPTION:Let Us Know You Are Coming\n    \nJoin us for a special lecture with historian Janet Allured\, Ph.D.\, co-editor of Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice: Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century.\n\n📅 Thursday\, September 18\n🕥 10:30–11:15 a.m. (Q&A to follow)\n\nDon’t miss this chance to explore the powerful stories of Methodist women and their fight for justice.\n\n\nThis lecture features the book Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice: Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century\, edited by Janet Allured and M. Kathryn Armistead\, highlights untold stories of interracial activism and women’s leadership.\n\n\n\nDon’t miss historian Janet Allured\, Ph.D.\, as she discusses the legacy of Southern Methodist women in the fight for social justice.\n\nSPEAKER BIO:\n\nJanet Allured\, Ph.D.\, retired Professor of History and of Women’s Studies at McNeese State University\, is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Arkansas. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications on southern women\, including Louisiana Women:  Their Lives and Times (2009)\, Remapping Second-Wave Feminism:  The Long Women’s Rights Movement in Louisiana\, 1950-1997 (2016) and most recently\, a collection of biographies of white and Black southern Methodist women entitled Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice:  Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century (2025)\, co-edited with M. Kathryn Armistead and published by the University Press of Florida. With Elizabeth Payne she co-produced Showers of Blessing:  The Story of Myrtle Lawrence\, Sharecropper and Social Activist\, and the Photography of Louise. She is currently at work on a monograph about the domestic missionary work of southern Methodist laywomen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n    Let Us Know You Are Coming
URL:https://scarrittbennett.org/event/southern-methodist-women-lecture/
LOCATION:Scarritt Bennett Center\, Harambee Auditorium\, 1027 18th Ave. S.\, Nashville\, TN\, 37212\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poet’s Corner Featuring Donna Whitney
DESCRIPTION:Let Us Know You Are Coming\n    \n📅 Thursday\, July 24\, 2025 | 7:00 PM📍 Harambee Auditorium | Scarritt Bennett Center\, Nashville\, TN🎟 Free Admission | All Are Welcome🌟 Optional Open Mic Sign-Up Available \nJoin us for an event of poetry with Donna Whitney. She began writing poetry more or less by accident in 2018. Her work is published in the 2021 anthology Sinew: 10 Years of Poetry in the Brew and in the on-line journal Justice Unbound. She is a retired neurologist and college professor (full disclosure – adjunct) and is an ordained Christian minister serving on the pastoral staff of Metropolitan Interdenominational Church in Nashville. Her self-published Devotional Readings for the National Week of Prayer For The Healing of HIV/AIDS honors the decades-long ministry of her congregation in advocacy and in service to persons living with HIV. The book was created in collaboration with Nashville artist AnDrew Morrison\, whose exhibit was featured at Scarritt Bennett in the summer of 2023 Donna has two daughters and three granddaughters\, all of whom are funny and brilliant and light up the world. \n🌟 Open Mic Sign-Up Optional – Let us know you are coming to share your own work with our vibrant community by registering at the link.☕ Light Refreshments Provided – Enjoy beverages and conversation before and after the reading.📌 Admission Is Free\, and All Are Welcome – Whether you’re a longtime poetry lover or new to the art form\, Poet’s Corner is a space to be inspired\, reflect\, and connect. \n👉 Mark your calendar and join us for a night of poetry\, presence\, and meaningful conversation with Donna Whitney! \n\nAbout Scarritt Bennett Center:Scarritt Bennett Center is a nonprofit education\, retreat\, and conference center in Nashville\, TN. Our mission is to create space where individuals and groups engage each other to achieve a more just world. Guided by our four core tenets—transformative education\, spiritual enrichment\, racial justice\, and women’s empowerment—we offer a welcoming environment for dialogue\, learning\, and community growth. \n\n    Let Us Know You Are Coming\n    \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://scarrittbennett.org/event/poets-corner-featuring-donna-whitney/
LOCATION:Scarritt Bennett Center\, Harambee Auditorium\, 1027 18th Ave. S.\, Nashville\, TN\, 37212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Literature,Soul Work
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Mary Magdalene’s Feast Day
DESCRIPTION:Let Us Know You Are Coming\n    \nA Journey through Early Christian\, Medieval\, and Contemporary Artwith Beth Maczka \n🗓 Date: Tuesday\, July 22\, 2025🕚 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Lecture🍽 Lunch: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Optional Lunch \n📍 Location: Scarritt Bennett CenterFondren Hall | Harambee Auditorium (Lunch in Susie Gray Dining Hall) \nJoin us for an inspiring visual and spiritual journey through the evolution of Christian art—from ancient symbols of the early church\, through the richness of medieval expression\, to bold contemporary interpretations. Guided by Beth Maczka\, this lecture invites us to reflect on how art has been used to express faith across centuries and cultures centered on Mary Magdalene on this annual feast day of the Christian year. \n🎟 Admission: Donations accepted to support Scarritt Bennett Center Programs🍴 Optional Lunch: $15 (Includes food\, beverage\, and dessert) \nCome for the beauty\, stay for the conversation.Reserve your spot today! https://secure.qgiv.com/for/scarrittbennettcenter/event/marymagdalenesfeastday2025/ \n\n    Let Us Know You Are Coming
URL:https://scarrittbennett.org/event/mary-magdalenes-feast-day-2025/
LOCATION:Scarritt Bennett Center\, Harambee Auditorium\, 1027 18th Ave. S.\, Nashville\, TN\, 37212\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cultural Millennium: A Juneteenth Celebration of Black Poetry & Power
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Cultural Millennium\, a dynamic poetry theatre experience that honors the cultural depth and enduring legacy of Blackness in America presented by Dream 7 Theater Productions. This is a free event with free parking.  Lunch cost is $15 and you may register just for the performance\, or for the performance and lunch conversations. \n\n    Register Online\n    \nDate & Time: June 19\, 2025 Performance: 10:00 a.m. | Harambee Auditorium Lunch Conversations: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Susie Gray Dining Hall  \nWith an all-female cast and work by Michael L. Walker\, this theatrical production—rooted in spoken word\, song\, and embodied storytelling—explores the Black journey from the ancient motherland through the trials of slavery\, civil rights\, and contemporary realities.  \nThrough powerful monologues\, rich musical moments\, and movement that speaks louder than words\, Cultural Millennium offers a multigenerational conversation about history\, hope\, resilience\, and identity. This is more than a show—it is a cultural experience of African American heritage\, strength\, and voice.  \n🎶 From the haunting echoes of “Wade in the Water” to the bold declarations of a Harlem Renaissance\, from intimate portrayals of family to the thunder of freedom cries—this performance is a living archive\, a poetic revolution\, and a love letter to the Black experience.  \nWhat to Expect:  \n\nA deeply moving theatrical poetry production \n\n\nStories spanning centuries—from Africa to America\, past to present \n\n\nReflections on identity\, community\, injustice\, and Black excellence \n\n\nCelebratory and sobering moments that uplift and confront \n\nAesthetic Note:\nSet against African-inspired visuals with hues of black\, brown\, and beige\, this production radiates ancestral memory and modern-day momentum. Expect artfully curated visuals\, heritage symbolism\, and a stage alive with passion.  \nCelebrate Juneteenth with a transformative encounter that invites you to remember\, reflect\, and rejoice. Come witness the journey. Come embrace the culture. Come experience the Cultural Millennium.  \nClick here to register!
URL:https://scarrittbennett.org/event/cultural-millennium-a-juneteenth-celebration-of-black-poetry-power/
LOCATION:Scarritt Bennett Center\, Harambee Auditorium\, 1027 18th Ave. S.\, Nashville\, TN\, 37212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Theatrical Performance,Racial Justice Ministries,Soul Work
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