America 250. Celebrating Black History with Reverend Cornell Carter.

Medina community Black History Month program · February 2, 2026

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Harriet Tubman: early life and injury

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Reverend Cornell Carter opened the program by introducing Harriet Tubman, describing her birth around 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland, her early service in the house and the field, and the head injury (thrown 2-pound weight) that caused lifelong seizures and narcolepsy. Carter framed the injury as evidence of the brutality of slavery.

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Reverend Cornell Carter delivered a Black History Month program in Medina highlighting Harriet Tubman, Wilda Bell Howard, Frederick Douglassand Martin Luther King Jr., urging the community to "keep going" and to "reach back" for others.

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