Art, music, history is focus of virtual African American Cultural Celebration Saturday

The N.C. Museum of History's annual African American Cultural Celebration will take place online this Saturday. The event, now in its 20th year, celebrates African American culture and history with a slate of free online programs.

The event includes programs that cover a wide variety of topics. There's a session on the history of the Halifax Underground Railroad. Keith Knight, a rapper, social activist, father and highly regarded cartoonist who illustrated the Jake the Fake books for kids and is the writer and inspiration for the Hulu series "Woke," will speak. And there will be a performances from groups across the state and beyond, including the North Carolina Association of Black Storytellers; the Allen Boys, a sacred steel band; and actors performing scenes from the play "Frederick Douglass: Freedom in Mind," which is an imaginative telling of Douglass and other figures.

More information, including links and details about how to watch the programs, is on the history museum's website.