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Reverend Cornell Carter leads Medina Black History Month program honoring Tubman, Howard, Douglass and King
Summary
Reverend Cornell Carter delivered a Black History Month program in Medina that profiled Harriet Tubmanand Wilda Bell Howard, recalled Frederick Douglassand featured a recitation of Martin Luther King Jr.Carter framed each biography as a call to community service and urged listeners to "keep going" and to "reach back" for others.
Reverend Cornell Carter opened a Black History Month program in Medina by tracing the lives of Harriet Tubman, Wilda Bell Howard, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr., and urging the community to support one another.
Carter began with Tubman, saying she was "born around 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland" and describing early work in house and field labor and a head wound he said caused lifelong seizures and narcolepsy. Carter said Tubman escaped in 1849 to Pennsylvania and later returned repeatedly to lead others north, calling her choice to return "the unthinkable decision" that demonstrated courage and care for others.
The program shifted to a local profile. Carter introduced…
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