Black History Month Showcase at POST Houston

Kick off Black History Month on Sun., Feb. 1 with a special art and music showcase at POST Houston. Pictured: jazz musicians from the Houston Professional Musicians Association. (Photo: Freddy Cedeno)

Kick off Black History Month on Sun., Feb. 1 with a special art and music showcase at POST Houston. The event features the Houston Professional Musicians’ Association’s first annual Black History Month Celebration alongside an exhibition by the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum (BSNM). Together, these organizations will present live music, contemporary art, and historical reflection to honor Black history and Houston’s artistic legacy.

HPMA’s first annual Black History Month Celebration begins at 2:30 p.m. with a live performance program featuring Tony Copeland, The H-Town Quartet, and The Crusaders Experience honoring Joe Sample, alongside a special appearance by the Kashmere Reunion Stage Band, popularly known as Thunder Soul. Together, the performances celebrate generations of Black musical excellence rooted in Houston. The event will be emceed by HPMA member Nick Sample, son of Joe Sample, on what would have been the influential jazz man’s 85th birthday. 

The opening reception for BSNM’s newest exhibition, “Terms & Conditions: The Promise vs. Reality,” will begin at 4 p.m. On view inside POST Houston’s Z Atrium throughout February, the exhibition examines Black liberation in the post-emancipation United States through the intersecting lenses of military service, citizenship, and cultural memory. Anchored in the legacy of the United States Colored Troops (USCT), the exhibition juxtaposes historical interpretation with contemporary visual art to conceptualize the freedoms promised to those who served their country and the freedoms they experienced as Black individuals upon returning home from the battlefield. Featured artists in the exhibition include Ann Johnson, Nathaniel Donnett, Alexis Pye, Kaneem Smith, Cat Martinez, Tay Butler, Lanecia A. Rouse, Phillip Pyle II, Robert Pruitt, Anthony Suber, Brian Ellison, Mo Nikole, Stacey Allen with Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective. Previously on display at Texas Southern University last summer, the exhibition is curated by Seba R. Suber and the Southern Polymath Creative Consulting firm with historical interpretation by the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum curatorial team, including Cale Carter, II, Jason Fung, and Dr. Michelle Tovar.

The Black History Month Art and Music Showcase is powered by the Kinder Foundation and POST Houston.