Black Girl Day of Play celebrates ‘food, fun and freedom’

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — It’s Black Girl Day of Play weekend, and Adado Riverfront Park is serving as the vibrant playground this Saturday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

There are dozens of interactive “play” stations, performances, games and music, along with local food and vendors.

The weekend, in its third year, intends to “center the joy of Black women and girls, and create a safe space for generations of Black women and girls to heal, grow and thrive.”

Organizers said the space is designed for all Black girls and women, along with all other people who love and celebrate them.

“Black Girl Day of Play is an intergenerational and intercultural movement where our authentic identity of being a woman and being Black is affirmed,” said founder Cameo King. “It celebrates the layers and duplicities of a Black woman`s identity.”

Adado Riverfront Park is at 201 E. Shiawassee Street in Lansing.

Following the day of “unbridled” fun and celebration at Adado Park, there will be a fundraiser this Sunday at 11 a.m., at the Courtyard Marriott Lansing Downtown.

Grit, Glam and Guts , a local Lansing organization for girls, will be celebrating 11 years as a movement to empower and equip teen girls in a safe space.

The fundraiser is called “Celebrating Black Girl Brilliance.” The keynote speaker is Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown , the inaugural chairperson of the Department of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University.

Dr. Brown has published two books, Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood , and Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip Hop Feminist Pedagogy.

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