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One Columbus segment on WTVM’s Newsleader 9 features Columbus Black Museum artifacts.

Johnny Warner started the Columbus Black Museum in 2004 and has accumulated hundreds of unique pieces in the building located at 3226 Hamilton Road. The One Columbus piece on Monday, February 27 during the Newsleader 9 segment will feature a slave collar - one of the artifacts on display.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from Noon to 6:00 PM.

You should plan to visit - soon.

”Church and State” is E Pluribus Unum theme on Tuesday, February 28

One Columbus continues its E Pluribus Unum Series with the second of three sessions on Tuesday, February 28 at the Main Library on Macon Road. The session starts at 7:00 P.M.

Session 2 addresses “Church and State” and will be moderated by Doug Force, Pastor, St Mary’s Road United Methodist Church with Trip Tomlinson, Attorney with Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison and Norwood, LLP providing the Constitutional Background.

Panel participants are Mario R. Mion, Professor, Political Philosophy, CSU retired; LaRae Moore, Assistant District Attorney; and Jorge Vega, Attorney, Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis, and Rothschild, LLP, and former First Assistant Attorney General, State of Texas.

The U. S. Constitution is a document to which all Americas refer as the one legal authority that sets forth the rights and responsibilities of individuals as well as the limits of authority. This Series is designed as an educational tool to explore the common ground that is fundamental to all Americans regardless of race, color, national origin, sex or creed.

Can you have this announced made in your house of worship this weekend? Read and watch the print and electronic media for more.

Contact person: Max Roth, Chair E Pluribus Unum Committee. 315-4875

Dare to Dream Summit

The 2006 Dare to Dream Summit sponsored by the Leadership Columbus
Alumni, One Columbus and the Muscogee County School District will be held at the
Trade Center on Thursday, March 2, 2006 from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM.
The Luncheon, starting at 11:30, will feature internationally acclaimed and respected
Joseph Sebarenzi, former head of the Rwandan Parliament, who has endured tragedy and
genocide atrocities most of us cannot imagine. In 1994, he lost his parents, seven siblings
and many other relatives in the Rwandan genocide. Yet, years later, as a senior
government official in a position to exact revenge, he instead pushed for peace and
reconciliation. Respectfully and with courage, Sebarenzi said "Revenge is like adding
guilt to victimhood. It solves nothing. At some point, we have to ignore the past and
envision the future."

This message of peace and reconciliation should not be missed!
Cost: $40 per person*
$300 for a table of 8

*Current Leadership Columbus members can attend at no cost and should register
through Jennifer Majors at 706-327-1566 or jmajors@columbusgachamber.com.