Queens March celebrates Black women in culture, entertainment

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Rubie Britt-Height, WFAE-FM's director of community engagement and partnerships, is one of three women to be honored for contributions to Charlotte culture and entertainment at the Queens March Women's History Month celebration on March 26.

Queens March, an immersive Women’s History Month celebration, will honor Black women in culture and entertainment.

The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art will host performances, visual, and three-dimensional works of art created by local artists and students to highlight contributions and successes of Black women in music and arts. Works by artists Annie Renee Harden, Princess Cureton and Brenda Pinkston will be up for silent auction. 

The showcase is March 26 at 5 p.m. Tickets are available at queensmarch2025.eventbrite.com. 

“You can’t erase the Black woman,” said organizer Jennifer Everett. 

The celebration is the third iteration of Queens March, Everett said, and three women – Jennifer Kennedy, Whitney Stephenson and Rubie Britt-Height – will be honored. 

The event lifts women in the Charlotte community. The first Queens March celebration was held at Studio 229 on Brevard, an arts and music venue which highlighted and preserved Black artists and history in Brooklyn Village. 

Everett, founder of Queens March wanted to create a safe space and opportunity for Black creative women to experience culture and express themselves authentically.

“I was going to art receptions and recitals and performances, but I didn’t see a lot of women that looked like me in the room,” she said. 

Culture Queens allowed Everett and creative peers of diverse disciplines, from dancers, authors, models, makeup artists and fashion designers to go on their own private gallery tours.

“I felt like it’s an opportunity for them to at least go these museums and experience it then they’ll feel welcome, and they’ll bring their family, and their creative expression will blossom,” she said. “In this time, and these days…it feels like the very things that we’ve been working so hard for are being taken away or are under attack. 

“There may be some executive order saying getting rid of Black History Month or women’s history, but you cannot get rid of our history, and we cannot be erased. Even if someone tries, you cannot erase the Black woman’s history, from our inventions to the impact we make within our communities. There are so many black women within our communities that are holding up this society.”

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