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10th Annual Black Veterans Day Salute

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November 7, 2015
5:45AM - 6:45AM
AAAS Community Extension Center, 905 Mt. Vernon Ave.

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-07 05:45:00 2015-11-07 06:45:00 10th Annual Black Veterans Day Salute Time: 1 p.m. Event Host: Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS) Short Description: Featuring the award winning documentary Choc’late Soldiers from the USA (CSUSA) and filmmaker Gregory Cooke. Featuring the award winning documentary Choc’late Soldiers from the USA (CSUSA) and filmmaker Gregory S. Cooke.  Choc’late Soldiers from the USA (CSUSA), a compelling, previously untold story of 140,000 African American men and women who cross a racial divide and form an unexpected bond with British civilians during World War II. CSUSA is a two-time film festival winner: Indie, Los Angeles (2013) and Bakersfield (2013).  CSUSA received the first ever Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award for film in 2014.Gregory S. Cooke, an educator and historian, has helped “relocate” African Americans from the “margins” to the “main page” of American and global history. Cooke is also an adjunct professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. This event is co-sponsored by the ADAMH (Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health) Board of Franklin County and is part of the Cultural Enrichment and Enhancement of Individual and Collective Health and Sustainable Well Being Initiative. It is free and open to the public. For more information email Sarah Twitty at twitty.1@osu.edu or visit the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS). AAAS Community Extension Center, 905 Mt. Vernon Ave. College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Time: 1 p.m.
Event Host: Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS)
Short Description: Featuring the award winning documentary Choc’late Soldiers from the USA (CSUSA) and filmmaker Gregory Cooke.


Featuring the award winning documentary Choc’late Soldiers from the USA (CSUSA) and filmmaker Gregory S. Cooke
 
Choc’late Soldiers from the USA (CSUSA), a compelling, previously untold story of 140,000 African American men and women who cross a racial divide and form an unexpected bond with British civilians during World War II. CSUSA is a two-time film festival winner: Indie, Los Angeles (2013) and Bakersfield (2013).  CSUSA received the first ever Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award for film in 2014.

Filmmaker Gregory Cooke
Gregory S. Cooke, an educator and historian, has helped “relocate” African Americans from the “margins” to the “main page” of American and global history. Cooke is also an adjunct professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.
 
This event is co-sponsored by the ADAMH (Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health) Board of Franklin County and is part of the Cultural Enrichment and Enhancement of Individual and Collective Health and Sustainable Well Being Initiative. It is free and open to the public. 

For more information email Sarah Twitty at twitty.1@osu.edu or visit the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS).