Friends of Mosaic Templars Cultural Center

06/15/2024

Whether you are hosting or attending a Juneteenth celebration this year, the food served will be important. Here are some recipes to put on your…

06/06/2024

🎉🌟 The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center began celebrating Juneteenth on historic West 9th Street in 2008. 🌟🎉 Those first celebrations could be contained on one block, between Broadway and Arch Street. Fast-forward 15 years, and now Juneteenth in Da Rock encompasses 4 blocks of downtown Little Rock! 🏙️✨
This year’s celebration includes a vibrant 5K through historically Black Little Rock and features 6 affiliate events. We are so proud to call these organizations from all over Arkansas our partners in celebrating Juneteenth. Visit their websites and attend their events! 🥳
Discover more about Juneteenth in Da Rock and the Juneteenth in Da Rock affiliates, visit www.juneteenthlittlerock.com.

All affiliate events listed below.

Annual Juneteenth Celebration at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center

06/06/2024

🎉🎶 Exciting News! 🎶🎉

Get ready to groove to the southern soul sensation Bigg Robb LIVE at Juneteenth in Da Rock 2024! 🎤 Save the date: June 15, 2024. 🗓️ The day kicks off at 7 AM with our 3rd annual 5K run/walk 🏃🏾🏃🏿‍♀️, and the fun starts at 9:00 AM. 🎉 Don't miss out! Join us in downtown Little Rock on historic West 9th Street.

🌟 Best part? This event is FREE and open to the public! 🎉 See you there!

Discover more about this event and all Juneteenth events at www.juneteentlittlerock.com

Annual Juneteenth Celebration at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center

06/06/2024

Have you ever wanted to run with an Olympic gold medalist? Here's your chance! 🏃🏾💨

Jeff Henderson, 2016 Olympic gold medalist and North Little Rock native, will serve as Juneteenth in Da Rock's 5K walk/run ambassador.

Run through history with Jeff!

📅 Saturday, June 15
⏰ Start gun at 7:00 AM

Register today at

Mosaic Templars Cultural Center's Juneteenth 5K Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, West 9th Street, Little Rock, AR - The 3rd Annual Juneteenth 5K run/walk is an opportunity for… - June 15, 2024

06/05/2024

We're excited to invite you to Mosaic Templars Cultural Center's 15th annual Juneteenth celebration on June 15! This year’s event will be unforgettable, featuring a live performance by Grammy Award winner LeToya Luckett. 🎤✨

📅 Date: June 15
🌟 Special Performance: LeToya Luckett

Come and enjoy a day filled with amazing performances, great food, and a wonderful community atmosphere. Let’s celebrate freedom, heritage, and unity together!

🔗 For more details, visit

Annual Juneteenth Celebration at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center

03/24/2024

Job opportunity alert!

We're Hiring! 🌟 Join our team as a Part-Time Program Coordinator! 📈 This dynamic role supports our Director of Development and plays a crucial part in building and maintaining museum partnerships 🤝 and planning unforgettable events. 🎉

Closing Date: March 28

Don't miss this opportunity to be part of our exciting team! Apply now at https://arcareers.arkansas.gov/job/Little-Rock-ADPHT-PROGRAM-COORDINATOR-AR-72201/1143423500/

02/15/2024

What an excellent opportunity for kids to participate in Black History Month!

We are excited to invite you to our Black History Month storytime with Central Arkansas Library System. We’ll be reading Ice Cream Man and Loblolly Creamery will be giving away free samples! this Saturday, February 17. The event is free and open to everyone. We can’t wait to see you and your kiddos smiling faces.

12/21/2023

! Now available in the "Arkansas Made, Black Crafted" Museum Store, 140/15 celebration t-shirts designed by YOU! 👨🏿‍🦱👩🏿

This is a limited supply and is your only chance to rep 2023 Artist of the Year Rex Deloney's signature piece "The Line!" Carry the spirit of Historic W. 9th Street with you wherever you go, and remind everyone that Arkansas Black History LIVES HERE. Stop by today and grab yours!

11/28/2023

This Giving Tuesday, we ask that you consider supporting FMTCC. Even the smallest donation helps us to support Mosaic Templars Cultural Center and its mission of preserving, interpreting, and celebrating Arkansas's African-American history.

This year marks 15 years of MTCC educating the public about the significant contributions African-American Arkansans have made to the country's culture, businesses, and society.

Three ways to give include donating on our website, specifying FMTCC as your Amazon Smile partner or designating FMTCC as your Kroger local charity. https://friendsofmtcc.com/donate

11/05/2023

What better place to work than Mosaic Templars Cultural Center!

Help us out! We are looking for a part time, Extra Help Museum Program Assistant!

In this role you will assist our Guest Services manager with welcoming visitors, answering phones, directing calls, working the museum store register, taking inventory of the museum store and much more!

Apply today: https://loom.ly/wrAZmcQ

11/05/2023

Get your creativity ready!

Want to rep MTCC your way?

Help us design a T-shirt celebrating 140 years of MTA history and 15 years of the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center!

Keep an eye on our social pages this week for a post that lists three design elements for the T-shirt! Drop a comment with your choice, and we will turn the most commented design into a T-shirt celebrating our history that will be available in the "Arkansas Made, Black Crafted" museum store!

Want to be a part of the Grand Reopening Weekend?
Tickets and more info at: https://loom.ly/P28jcLM

09/01/2023

Well deserved! 🎉

We are thrilled to announce that MTCC Director Key Fletcher has been appointed to the American Alliance of Museum's Accreditation Commission, making her the first AAM commissioner in Arkansas history! Congratulations, Key!

Read more: https://loom.ly/dTaQ-Jk

08/10/2023

We couldn’t support all the educational and community efforts at MTCC without the support of amazing partners like Entergy who are steadfast in their involvement with local nonprofit organizations such as ours. Thank you to Entergy and to everyone who donates to FMTCC!

Entergy has been named a 2023 honoree of The Civic 50, Points of Light’s prestigious annual list recognizing the top community-minded companies in the United…

06/26/2023

Rest in Peace, Say McIntosh, your life and legacy will always be remembered and celebrated in Arkansas and at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center.

Well-known Little Rock civil rights activist Robert “Say” McIntosh has passed away at the age of 79.

06/19/2023

06/19/2023

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

This quote by Ida B. Wells is poignant today, Juneteenth, for it was on this day in 1865 that the truth of emancipation finally reached formerly enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas.

Celebrate by supporting Black-owned businesses, and restaurants, or Black culture preservation organizations such as Friends of Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. We work year-round to support programming at MTCC which educates the public about the rich history and contributions of African Americans throughout Arkansas history. https://friendsofmtcc.com/donate

06/18/2023

ICYMI, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center had an impressive lineup of events yesterday to celebrate but don’t worry if you couldn’t make it: There’s still time to visit “The Arc of Justice: The Life and Legacy of S.A. Jones," exhibit inside the center along with information about the history of Juneteenth in the state.

The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center held its annual Juneteenth in Da Rock festival on Saturday to celebrate Black history and culture with live performances, educational skits and offerings from 120 vendors, including nonprofits, small businesses and food trucks.

06/17/2023

It’s a great day to celebrate in Little Rock! Lots of activities for the whole family. 🎉

Heading to Juneteenth in Da Rock? Of course you are! Get the most out of your weekend with the Little Rock, Arkansas Juneteenth Pass!

🎁 Earn points while visiting local attractions, events, and restaurants highlighting Black history and culture, and win a special 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐚 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 commemorative poster by Mosaic Templars Cultural Center's 2023 Artist of the Year, . 🤩 First 50 users to earn 50 points and complete the pass will win a SIGNED by Deloney himself!

📲 Get Your Pass NOW: https://loom.ly/CNuKZJ4

06/17/2023

Time for a 5k!

06/16/2023

06/11/2023

5k and many other awesome events coming up next Saturday! 👟

The 2nd annual Juneteenth in Da Rock 5K is coming up Saturday, June 17, at 7 a.m.!

This exclusive 5K walk/run guides runners through some of Little Rock's most historic African American neighborhoods and landmarks!

💸Save $10 by signing up on or before JUNE 9!💸

Register NOW at JuneteenthLittleRock.com

06/04/2023

It’s not too late to sign up!

Standard registration for the 2nd Annual Juneteenth in Da Rock 5k Run/Walk ends in just ONE week!

💸Save $10 by registering on or before JUNE 9!💸

Sign up NOW at JuneteenthLittleRock.com

05/25/2023

There are so many reasons to join us at the annual Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Juneteenth celebration this year, but in case you needed another one we have one word for you: MYA! 🎤🤩

Juneteenth in Da Rock, featuring Grammy Award-winning R&B artist MÝA is back on Saturday, June 17!

Go to JuneteenthLittleRock.com for all the info!

05/16/2023

Enjoy some sweet treats to celebrate with Mosaic Templars Cultural Center 🍓 🎉

MTCC's kick-off celebration of our official drink of Juneteenth in Da Rock is coming up Wednesday, May 17 at 5:30 p.m.!

A Live DJ will be mixing it up alongside FREE pours of Aretha's Famous Strawberry Lemonade with Basil, wine, and some special treats from Community Bakery! Register to win door prizes!

Learn more: https://fb.me/e/2uKRTFqqy

05/14/2023

Happy Mother’s Day! And to all the mothers out there – be they Aunties, Grandmothers, Cousins or Friends – thank you for all you do!

05/06/2023

June 17th at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center join us for this fantastic lineup of artists! 🎶

🎸 THE LINEUP HAS DROPPED 🎷

Your local artists for Juneteenth in Da Rock 2023 are:

Akeem Kemp • Amanda Katrice • Big Piph and tomorrow Maybe • Bijoux • Crissy P • Dazz and Brie • Funkanites • JT Line Dancers • Keith Savage • Malik Oliver • Michael Eubanks • Westwind School of Performing Arts Dance Troupe

• JuneteenthLittleRock.com •

05/03/2023

Check out the amazing lineup of events for this year’s Mosaic Templars Cultural CenterJuneteenth celebration month! There’s a talent show, interfaith service, awards, 5k and more. So many opportunities to participate, mark your calendars now! ✅

📣ANNOUNCEMENT: The full calendar of events for Juneteenth in Da Rock is here!

There is so much happening in Arkansas this year, with our signature Juneteenth in Da Rock Street Festival, 5K Walk & Run and affiliate events throughout the month of June! Also join us for the Juneteenth Flag Raising Ceremony and Brunch coming up June 15!

All the info is at JuneteenthLittleRock.com! 📆 Make plans to join our celebration of freedom and culture TODAY!

04/17/2023

The Board of Directors of Friends of Mosaic Templars Cultural Center sends its sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Herb Rule. Herb was a treasured member of our board for well over a decade.

Not only was Herb a loving father, civil rights advocate, former elected official, public servant, US Marine, lover of music and the performing arts, Herb loved Mosaic Templars Cultural Center.

Herb was a central figure in obtaining our IRS nonprofit designation, supporting all of our events, and fighting for the legislation that created the MTCC through Arkansas Act 1176 of 2001.

Herb was often lovingly referred to as our favorite "curmudgeon" as was often unyielding in his thoughts and opinions concerning what he wanted to see happen at MTCC.

To all that knew Herb,on this we can all agree. Herb fought for and supported the things he believed in and there will never be another one like him.

04/06/2023

Friday at noon, learn while you lunch!

Just one week until the next Sandwiching in History tour!

This time we are at the Daisy Bates House in Little Rock. Join us as we explore this National Historic Landmark, part of a pivotal moment in Arkansas history.

More Info: https://fb.me/e/45QczTFzH

04/01/2023

This race was awesome last year! Register now to join this year’s Juneteenth 5k!

The 2nd Annual Juneteenth in Da Rock 5K is coming up fast!

Early bird registration ends April 14!

Register now: https://loom.ly/CM9TJmw