The City of Detroit is rolling out a month-long tribute to Black history, with daily digital doses of speeches, panels, and interviews beaming into homes across the city on Channel 22 and through various social media platforms, spearheaded by the Office of Arts, Culture, and Entrepreneurship (Detroit ACE). Undefeated, the video series dedicated to Black History Month, is set to offer residents a deep dive into Detroit's rich cultural tapestry, spanning Jazz to Gospel, architecture to comedy, according to the City of Detroit.
In what has now become an anticipated yearly ritual, the City of Detroit Historian Jamon Jordan is expected to kick off the series with his authoritative speech on Black art history within the city, a speech at Ford Field at 7 p.m., home turf of the Detroit Lions, who've been experiencing their most triumphant season in years. Jordan, notably, is the first historian in Detroit's history to hold the title. Detroit ACE is keen to have the community tune in Monday to Friday to catch each installment they will share.
Last year, Jordan delivered his lecture at Second Baptist Church, a pivotal and historical site in the Underground Railroad, signaling the city's engagement with its profound connections to American history. His lectures are just a taste of the educational buffet he serves year-round, with hundreds of tours, speeches, workshops, and lessons targeted toward enriching regional communities' understanding of their lineage.
"We are so proud to be one of the cities in America with an official historian who is teaching the rich history of Detroit, history that every American should know and every Michigan child should be taught," said Rochelle Riley, the city's Director of Arts and Culture in whose office Jordan works, praising the significance of the historian's role which was an appointment by Mayor Mike Duggan and exemplifies the administration's high regard for the reverberation of Detroit's historical pulse through the veins of American history, per the City of Detroit.
