GKCBHSG Monthly Meeting and Dr. Carter G. Woodson Birthday Day Celebration

On Saturday, December 14, 2024, at 1:00 pm, the Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group will host its monthly meeting and annual Dr. Carter G. Woodson Birthday Celebration at the Black Archives of Mid-America. Each year branches of The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) around the country gather to honor the birth of its founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, born December 19, 1875. Dr. Woodson also founded Negro History Week in 1926, now known, since 1976, as Black History Month. Woodson is considered by many as the “Father of Black History.”

To continue Dr. Woodson’s legacy of educating the public about Black life, history and culture, the meeting will close out this year’s theme of African Americans and the Arts with featured guest speaker and acclaimed jazz artist, Ms. Angela Hagenbach. Ms. Hagenbach has worked and recorded with such jazz greats as Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Russell Malone and Frank Foster. She represented the U.S. twice as a Cultural Jazz Ambassador and has performed at numerous festivals and concert halls around the world. She has produced and released multiple recordings to national critical acclaim on Amazon Records. Two or her compositions are featured in LAST WILL, a film starring Tatum O’Neal, James Brolin and Peter Coyote. As a musical theater artist, she has costarred in SOPHISTICATED LADIES, NINE, and ONCE ON THIS ISLAND for Spinning Tree Theater. She has written and directed musical versions of The Maltese Falcon, The Great Gatsby and JazzAlice, a re-envisioned romp of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland set to the music of John Coltrane for the national libraries Big Read programs, funded in part by NEH and NEA. Hagenbach will explore her career and life trajectory,