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The Buffalo Bills are supporting four activities held in February in celebration of Dark History Month.
Buffalo Mold Runway â Dark Carpet
Organized by Eman Wajed, Chad Williams, Cain McDermott, Rodney Chatmon and Dan Abbotoy, Buffalo Mold Runway will hold a Dark Carpet occasion celebrating a different bunch of creatives within the Buffalo region.
Nearby proficient models as well as prominent Dark figures within the community will wear pieces made by nearby architects, with exhibitions from nearby artists adding to an evening full of craftsmanship that’s 100 percent built in Buffalo.
Earlier to the appear, visitors can posture for pictures on the dark carpet and check out a few of the clothing, visual craftsmanship and nourishment sellers.
“We needed to highlight Dark design, Dark culture in Buffalo particularly,” Wajed said. “I’m fair upbeat for the openings that the originators are planning to have after this, the models, the picture takers, the melodic specialists. I’m fair upbeat to see everybody come together to celebrate mold and celebrate culture and to be able to put on a debut occasion for the city.”
Models will moreover wear Williams and McDermott’s custom Buffalo 10 shirt, outlined to commemorate the casualties of the May 14, 2022 shooting at a Tops Inviting Markets.
“I feel as if everyone we’ve met along this journey, everyone we will meet along this journey have all given us peace, blessings and love,” Wajed said. “There’s so much love in this city, there’s so much support for what we’ve got going on.
“Come to support the Buffalo community, the Buffalo creative community, the Buffalo fashion community. The experience that you will have at the Black Carpet event, even if you are not interested in fashion and creativity and arts, it will be sort of like a red carpet experience, it will be sort of like a Met Gala experience.”
The Black Carpet event will be held Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. at the Northland Workforce Training Center located at 683 Northland Ave. and will run until roughly 9 p.m.
A little under two years ago, 10 Black people were murdered by a white supremacist at a Tops Friendly Markers supermarket in the East Side of Buffalo. Three others were injured, including Zeneta Everhart’s son Zaire.
Everhart, who was elected to the Buffalo Common Council in November, has responded to the tragedy by attempting to teach love rather than hate to today’s children. Everhart believes that education is the most important factor in preventing racist ideologies from becoming ingrained in the next generation.
“That just shows the failure of the education system and not educating people in this country about the impact that Black people have had on this country across all different types of areas,” Everhart said on the 5/14 shooting. “So, we started the book club so that we could educate people, especially children, about diversity and inclusion and acceptance, but also just about the history of Black people in America.”
Zeneta & Zaire’s Book Club has gifted tens of thousands of books to community centers, schools and local organizations in the greater Buffalo area, partnering with Villa Maria College, Everhart’s alma mater that hosts the book club
In February, Zeneta & Zaire’s Book Club will partner with the Buffalo Bills to distribute books to children at Hamlin Park School, inviting local Black authors to read their books featuring stories of Black heroes and the importance of diversity. Registration for the event can be found at this link
“I really wanted the emphasis to be on some of our local Black authors because they’re doing the work and they’re putting their pen to paper and making sure that representation is seen,” Everhart said.
Zeneta & Zaire’s Book Club can be found on Instagram and Facebook or reached at zenetasbooklist@gmail.com. Donations are always appreciated and books for children can be purchased on the Book Club’s Amazon Wish List.
“Our children teach us so much about who we should be in this world,” Everhart said. “I think that if we’re sending kids home with books that they’re excited about, that they just want to read the story, that’s going to pierce the hatred in the parents. It’s about showing kids that Black kids are just like them.”
“It’s amazing,” said BULYP president Darnell Haywood. “I mean, myself, I fit into the age group between 21 and 40, so it’s great just being able to feed off some of my peers as well as seeing and being a mentor for those that are younger than me, utilizing my skills as well as also learning from each other.”
The week will include a “Headshots and Handshakes” event, where young professionals can take headshots and get assistance with resumes and tips on how to network. The event will be Thursday, Feb. 8 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Buffalo Urban League facility located at 15 Genesee St.
