{"id":11242,"date":"2024-02-22T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=11242"},"modified":"2024-02-22T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:46:31","slug":"toledo-library-black-history-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/toledo-library-black-history-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"Toledo Library Black History Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11243\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11243\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chef-Mae.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Mae<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>By Tricia Hall<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>The Truth Reporter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Toledo Lucas County Public Library (TLCPL) collaborated with Welcome Toledo-Lucas County (TLC), Women of Toledo (WOT) and SAME Caf\u00e9 Toledo to celebrate Black History. The February 10 event was held at the downtown library inside of the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for coming here today,\u201d began Mely Arribas-Douglas, TLC Specialists. \u201cToday we\u2019re celebrating black history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Women of Toledo our mission is to educate, engage and empower,\u201d began Sierra Ortiz, WOT Associate Director. \u201cWe\u2019re happy to be here, volunteer and partner today. We support programs like this that are important to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Caf\u00e9 was filled to capacity as guests enjoyed the meal prepared by renown Chef Mae Merveilles Tshitenge, who prepared authentic Congolese cuisine. Guests dined on famed coleslaw, aromatic rice, mouthwatering mikate, flavorful tshake madesu and succulent grilled chicken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you. Thank you,\u201d said Chef Mae. \u201cI want to thank my team. Thank you to Caf\u00e9 Chef Schmidtke and your team. Thank you to each of you for coming out here today and hope you will enjoy this meal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to preparing the meal, Chef Mae completed a cooking demonstration and answered audience questions.<\/p>\n<p>The library\u2019s Black History plan is called the BIG IDEA (Build, Improve, Grow with Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access). The remaining Black History programs by branch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kent, Vintage Collection Sneakers on Feb. 15 and 22, 5:00pm-6pm<\/li>\n<li>King, Summer of Soul film screening on Feb. 17 from 2:00pm-4:00pm; Small Town Pride Book Blub on Feb. 26 from 6:30pm-7:30pm<\/li>\n<li>Lagrange, Black Boy Joy, Feb. 20 5:30pm-6:30pm<\/li>\n<li>Main, Black History Month for Kids, Feb. 17, 2:00pm-3:00pm<\/li>\n<li>Mott, Step into Black History, Feb. 23, 3:30pm-5:00pm<\/li>\n<li>West Toledo, Poonam Dance on Feb 20 from 4:00pm-5:00pm; Simple as Water film screening on Feb. 23 from 1:00pm-3:00pm; and An Afternoon with Little Amal on Feb. 24 from 2:00pm-5:00pm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11242 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/toledo-library-black-history-meal\/chef-mae-and-team\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chef-Mae-and-team.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11244\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11244'>\n\t\t\t\tChef Mae and team\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/toledo-library-black-history-meal\/chef-mae-serving-guests\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chef-Mae-serving-guests.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/toledo-library-black-history-meal\/dsc_0916\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DSC_0916.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/toledo-library-black-history-meal\/mely-arribas-douglas-tlc-specialists-left-and-sierra-ortiz-women-of-toledo-associate-director\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mely-Arribas-Douglas-TLC-Specialists-left-and-Sierra-Ortiz-Women-of-Toledo-Associate-Director.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11247\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11247'>\n\t\t\t\tMely Arribas-Douglas, TLC Specialists (left) and Sierra Ortiz, Women of Toledo Associate Director\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tricia Hall The Truth Reporter The Toledo Lucas County Public Library (TLCPL) collaborated with Welcome Toledo-Lucas County (TLC), Women of Toledo (WOT) and SAME Caf\u00e9 Toledo to celebrate Black History. The February 10 event was held at the downtown library inside of the caf\u00e9. \u201cThank you for coming here today,\u201d began Mely Arribas-Douglas, TLC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[217],"class_list":["post-11242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11248,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions\/11248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11242"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=11242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}