The Committee to Renew the Shaw 54th Memorial cordially invites you to join them for a community conversation on The Power of Public Monuments and Why They Matter, featuring a dynamic panel of speakers moderated by Beverly Morgan-Welch, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The event takes place Wednesday, January 9 from 6:30 – 8:30 at the Tremont Temple Baptist Church, 88 Tremont Street in Boston. Emcee Karen Holmes Ward of WCVB Boston welcomes DeRay McKessen, civil rights activist, Renee Ater, American public art historian, and F. Sheffield Hale of the Atlanta History Center. The event is in part sponsored by The Salah Foundation and The Friends of the Public Garden. Free, but registration required by clicking HERE.
