The Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation will hold its second annual Black History Month program at 4 p.m. Monday at the T.C. Walker Education Center, 6099 T.C. Walker Road, Gloucester. “Nothing New Under the Sun” is the theme for this year’s program, with special guests including storyteller Regina Ellis Stuart, members of the Gloucester High School chorus, and Woodville’s Descendant Community Committee Choir. GHS choir director Steven Martinez said he expects 12 to 15 students to participate. They will perform two selections highlighting the work of African American composters: “Hear My Prayer” by Moses Hogan, and “Jambo Rafiki,” a selection in a call-and-response style by Victor Johnson. Woodville’s choir members are from Gloucester’s descendant community, people who attended, or whose family members attended, Rosenwald schools and other historically black schools before integration, including T.C. Walker School. Stuart, daughter of the late Vernon and Florine Ellis of Gloucester, ...
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