17 Jan Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History announces the launch of its inaugural 12-month calendar
“Augusta Achievers. Celebrating Augusta’s Black History: Trailblazers, Gamechangers, Luminaries, Pacesetters”
The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History and Conference center announces the launch of its inaugural 12-month 2025 black history calendar Augusta Achievers – Celebrating Augusta’s Black History: Trailblazers, Gamechangers, Luminaries, Pacesetters.
Each month, features the story of an Augustan whose life’s work defines them as a Trailblazer, Gamechanger, Luminary and/or Pacesetter. Each month add to your knowledge of black history with a variety of black history facts.
From fields such as business, education, medicine, the arts, and politics, Augusta Achieversfeatures Dr. Mallory Millender, Journalist and Paine College Professor and Historian; Dr. Mac Bowman, cardiologist, Piedmont Health Care; Dr. Ebony Brown, founder of Brown Girls Code; Russell Joel Brown, Broadway actor and Founder of Boys with a Future; Velvet Perry, Vice President and General Manager, Perry Broadcasting; Hawthorne Welcher, Jr., Director Augusta Housing and Development; the late Carrie Mays and the late Willie Mays III, Entrepreneurs and Politicians; Marion Barnes, Retired 19-year principal of T.W. Joey High School and three-time president of the Richmond County School Board; Tyrone Butler, Founder and Executive Director of the Augusta Mini Theatre, and long-time staff, Judith Simon-Butler, Deputy Director and Drama Instructor, and Earnestine Robinson, Board Liaison Support Staff; Denzell Howard, burgeoning filmmaker and senior at John S. Davidson Fine Arts School; the late B.L. Dent, entrepreneur and the first black in Georgia elected to a City government role after Reconstruction; the late R.A. “Papa” Dent, entrepreneur and the first black in Georgia to be elected to a state government position after Reconstruction, and Dr. Cheryl Evans Jones, recently retired President of Paine College.
Calendars are $20.00 and can be purchased by visiting the museum at 1116 Phillips Street or call the museum at 706-724-3576. Proceeds from the calendar support the Laney Museum’s ongoing mission to preserve Augusta’s Black History, to educate the community and provide innovative and impactful programming.