Smithsonian Institution and Kmart Celebrate Black History With Debut of Gospel Music Mobile Museum, Thursday, Feb. 15 at Carmichael Auditorium

WHAT: Gospel singer CeCe Winans, Kmart (NYSE: KM) spokesperson and Grammy Award-winner, will kick-off a mobile museum tour, featuring the Smithsonian exhibition, "Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions, 1871-2001." The multi-city trailer-truck tour will include Kmart stores, schools and other community locations across the country from mid-February through November 2001.

  WHEN:  Thursday, Feb. 15
         9 a.m.

  WHERE:  Carmichael Auditorium
          Smithsonian National Museum of American History
          Constitution Avenue and 14th Street, S.W.
          Washington, D.C.

  WHO:  Lawrence M. Small, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
        Brent Willis, Chief Marketing Officer, Kmart
        Valeria Stokes, Vice President of Human Resources, Corporate, Kmart
        CeCe Winans, gospel singer and Kmart spokesperson
        Tim Reid, Emmy-nominated actor, director and producer

In honor of Black History Month, the Smithsonian Institution and Kmart will join forces to bring the public a mobile museum featuring the Smithsonian exhibition, "Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions, 1871-2001."

"Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions, 1871-2001" is an exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). Kmart, as a part of its national program celebrating Black History, "Share The Word," has made this mobile museum possible.

CONTACT: Elly Muller, 202-357-3168, ext. 118, Jennifer Schommer, 202-357-3168, ext. 125, both of Smithsonian Institution; Susan Dennis of Kmart Corporation, 248-463-1021; or Michele Edwards of Don Coleman Advertising, 248-223-8953.

PRNewswire -- Feb. 13

SOURCE: Kmart Corporation

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