Maimonides hosts annual Black History Month celebration
On Mon., Feb. 11, Maimonides Medical Center (MMC), 4802 10th Avenue, saluted “Influential Male Leaders in Black History” as it hosted its annual Black History Month celebration.
Held in the facility’s Schreiber Auditorium, the event featured six employees from the hospital acting the parts of significant African American leaders, including George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr., and Barack Obama.
Students from St. Mark’s Day School sang the national anthem while MMC staffer Kelly Lekule performed the black national anthem. The Bloodline Dance Theatre of Medgar Evers College also performed.