The Town of Carrboro has some events planned for Black History Month in the month of February, 2024. All are either free or very low-priced and there are events for all ages. These events take place the Carrboro Century Center, 100 N. Greensboro Street, Carrboro, unless otherwise specified.
Learn about more Black History Month events throughout the Triangle.
You can see all of Carrboro’s Black History Month events here. Make sure to follow that link for all the details of these events. Read on for a few highlights.
Black History Month Concert Featuring Chrishawn Darby Quartet
Sunday, February 2, 2025
3 p.m.
Carrboro Century Center
100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC
Free
African Americans and Labor, an evening with with Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway and Maurice “Mo” Green
Monday, February 3, 2025
6 to 8 p.m.
Carrboro Century Center
100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC
Free
Poet’s Open Mic
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
7 to 8 p.m.
Zoom
Free
Call 919-918-7372 for info
Black History Month Bingo
Wednesday, February 6, 2025
10 to 11:30 a.m.
The Drakeford Library Complex
203 S Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC
Free
Age 50+
African Americans and Labor, an evening with Dr. Michelle Laws and James Shields Jr.
Monday, February 10, 2025
6 to 8 p.m.
Carrboro Century Center
100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC
Free
Black History Month Concert Featuring United Strings of Color
Sunday, February 16, 2025
3 p.m.
Carrboro Century Center
100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC
Free
Through an immersive experience of Black history using music, theatre, and mixed media arts, the audience will learn about the lives, countries, times, systemic laws, and iconic contributions of four Black abolitionists. Using a theatrical construct to place our abolitionists together, youth actors representing Ignatius Sancho, (1729 – 1780), Joseph Bologne, (1745 – 1799), Solomon Northrup, (1807/8 – 1864), and Frederick Douglass, (1818 -1895), will discuss their lives as Black creatives who fought with the pen, the ballot, the sword and the bullet, to directly affect laws and the dominant thought of their day.
Health and Wellness Fair
Saturday, February 22, 2025
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Carrboro Century Center
100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC
Free
Health screenings, blood pressure checks, food and raffles.
Jeghetto in “Real American History: by Jim Crow the Puppet”
Sunday, February 23, 2025
2 p.m.
The Drakeford Library Complex
203 S Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC
$3
Tarish Pipkins a.k.a. Jeghetto has fine-tuned his skills by doing street performances with his puppets. He has worked with Paperhand Puppet Intervention. He has built puppets and performed in several Paperhand productions. Jeghetto has had the pleasure to work with national recording artist, Missy Elliott on her music video, WTF (Where They From) controlling the Pharell puppet and doing some puppet building. He also worked on the Amazon Echo commercial featuring Missy Elliott and Alec Baldwin as puppets.
Black History Month Concert featuring Emmanuel Howard
Sunday, February 23, 2025
4 p.m.
Carrboro Century Center
100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC
Free
Emmanuel Howard is a native of Charlotte, NC, and at the age of nine began his musical journey learning the guitar, then picked up the alto saxophone, transforming his musical trajectory. During this time, he played in various ensembles between school, church and with the community music program, Community School of the Arts in marching, concert, symphonic, and jazz bands. He has collaborated musically alongside musicians and educators such as Branford Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo, and Tia Fuller.
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More Black History Month Events
Check out a list of Black History Month events and sites in the Triangle, or see a few of them here. More are being added all the time.
