APPLETON (NBC 26) -- Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes will speak at the Appleton Area School District’s Black History Month Celebration on Saturday.
The celebration is scheduled from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Appleton North High School. Barnes will deliver the keynote address. The event will also feature a welcome from Wisconsin State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor, awards presentation, performances by the Appleton Area School District’s Black Student Union and a free soul food dinner catered by Cozzy Corner.
Mandela Barnes is the first African-American to serve as a Lieutenant Governor in Wisconsin, and the second African-American to ever hold statewide office. Carolyn Stanford Taylor is the first African-American state superintendent in Wisconsin’s history.
