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Travis County’s Black History program highlights global belonging, local history and community supports
Summary
Travis County’s Black History Program brought county leaders, staff and community speakers together for speeches, music and awards. Keynote Sabrina Phillips connected global colonial histories to local belonging; Commissioner Trevillion and Judge Andy Brown emphasized community responsibility and preserving Black history. The program concluded with a chili cook-off fundraiser and lunch.
Travis County hosted its annual Black History Program with speeches, music and community awards that framed Black history as both a global story of displacement and a local responsibility to support neighbors.
Sabrina Phillips, founder of Equity Through Art and a professor of art history at Austin Community College, delivered the keynote, telling a multi‑generational story that connected her ancestry in Mauritius and Britain to her life in Austin. “I belong to this story and I belong to black history,” Phillips said, describing how colonial plantation labor and indenture shaped…
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