WILMOT — Free movie and popcorn February 28! Black History Month was officially recognized by Gerald Ford in 1976, calling the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans…throughout our history.”  The 2025 Black History Month theme, “African Americans and Labor,” focuses on the ways that work of all kinds — free and unfree, skilled and unskilled, vocational and voluntary — intersect with the collective experience of Black people.

  To celebrate Black History Month and this year’s labor theme, First Congregational Church of Wilmot will partner with the Wilmot Public Library, at 6:30, on Friday, February 28, to show the new movie The Six Triple Eight, about World War II’s only Women’s Army Corps unit of color, tasked with sorting a three-year backlog of mail that had not been delivered to American soldiers overseas. In the face of discrimination, these 855 women sorted 17 million pieces of mail and brought hope to the front lines.  

The movie will screen in the lower auditorium of the church, and popcorn is free!