Minnesota’s Triumphant African American Community: Documentary Screening

Minnesota's Black Community Project (MBCP), a prominent African American centered non-profit organization in Minnesota has a new MUST-SEE documentary is entitled: Spotlight on Minnesota’s Triumphant African American Community. This documentary highlights what African American success looks like in Minnesota in the 21st century in the following professional fields: business and entrepreneurship, community service, education, entertainment, fine arts, the film industry, government, health and medicine, journalism law, media and communications, religion and churches and sports.
This documentary builds off the earlier and groundbreaking work of the late Walter R. Scott Sr., whose renowned self-published publications highlighted the Black men and women working and thriving in a variety of professional fields in Minnesota during the pre- and post-Civil Rights eras. Scott self-published published three such publications on Minnesota’s Black community over the span of three decades which are entitled: Centennial Edition of the Minneapolis Beacon (1956), Minneapolis Negro Profile (1968), and Minnesota’s Black Community (1976).
This groundbreaking documentary and books my Minnesota’s Black Community Project and the late Walter R. Scott Sr. will be available for purchase at the viewing of the documentary on September 19, 2026. For more information about this MUST--SEE and FREE documentary showing at the Minnesota Historical Society, contact Dr. Chaunda L. Scott, Executive Director of Minnesota’s Black Community Project at [email protected].
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
RSVP here: https://www.mnhs.org/events/57272673037