Black history talk set for Feb. 5

Published 5:13 pm Tuesday, February 2, 2016

BREMERTON – “Black History and its Importance to America’s Future,” a special program in honor of Black History Month, will be 6:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at Kitsap History Museum.

The museum will be open 5-8 p.m. and Drayton Jackson will speak in the museum library at 6:30. Refreshments will be available in the lobby before and after the event. Seating is limited, open to the public, and free.

The museum is located at 280 Fourth Street in Bremerton.

Jackson, the 2015-16 student government president of Olympic College and Olympic College’s Transforming Lives Award winner, is an advocate of fighting homelessness of which he is a survivor. He is also the recipient of the Olympic College Foundation’s Martin Luther King of Kitsap and the Herbert H. Goodman Scholarships. Prior to moving to Kitsap County in 2012, Jackson worked in the music and entertainment industry for more than 20 years.

Jackson is currently serves on the Board of the Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program. He is the Founder of the Family Day Foundation which fights for low income and homeless families as well as taking them to events they cannot afford.

Jackson resides in Bremerton with his wife and two sons.