175 Series Presentation: What Happened at Benham West
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Join us for a showing and discussion of the 80-minute documentary, What Happened at Benham West: African American Stories of Community, Displacement and Hope, presented by Nekeisha Alayna Alexis, MA, Intercultural Competence and Undoing Racism coordinator at AMBS.
About the Speaker:
Nekeisha Alayna Alexis, MA, Intercultural Competence and Undoing Racism coordinator at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, was a co-leader of the team that produced the Benham West documentary and is co-writer of the project’s accompanying book, What Happened at Benham West: African American Stories of Community, Displacement and Hope.
Learn more about the Benham West project and documentary: https://ambs.edu/benham-west-project/
Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm
Where: Event Space (National New York Central Railroad Museum, 721 S. Main St. Elkhart, IN)
All 175 Series presentations are free thanks to community sponsorships. No admission is required!
This installment of the 175 Series is generously sponsored by Ruthmere.
The 175 Series is a series of monthly presentations by guest speakers and special tours that tell the story of rail in Elkhart as part of #ElkhartRail175.
To learn more about ElkhartRail175, visit nnycrrmuseum.org
About the Speaker:
Nekeisha Alayna Alexis, MA, Intercultural Competence and Undoing Racism coordinator at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, was a co-leader of the team that produced the Benham West documentary and is co-writer of the project’s accompanying book, What Happened at Benham West: African American Stories of Community, Displacement and Hope.
Learn more about the Benham West project and documentary: https://ambs.edu/benham-west-project/
Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm
Where: Event Space (National New York Central Railroad Museum, 721 S. Main St. Elkhart, IN)
All 175 Series presentations are free thanks to community sponsorships. No admission is required!
This installment of the 175 Series is generously sponsored by Ruthmere.
The 175 Series is a series of monthly presentations by guest speakers and special tours that tell the story of rail in Elkhart as part of #ElkhartRail175.
To learn more about ElkhartRail175, visit nnycrrmuseum.org
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721 S Main St, Elkhart, IN, United States, Indiana 46516
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Host or PublisherNational New York Central Railroad Museum
