Named for activist and educator ZerNona S. Black, the community center will serve as a home for after-school programs and as a senior center.
Distinguished guests cut the ribbon in front of the new ZerNona S. Black Multi-Generational Cultural/Community Center on Wednesday.The new $5.5 million ZerNona S. Black Multi-Generational Cultural/Community Center opened Wednesday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by community members and dignitaries attuned to the history and present-day needs of San Antonio’s East Side.
It is named in honor of ZerNona Stewart Black, a St. Philip’s College educator and civil rights activist who died in 2005 and was renowned for her community work with seniors, including originating the early Mt. Zion Meals On Wheels program. San Antonio artist Ronney Stevens painted two murals for the new ZerNona S. Black Multi-Generational Cultural/Community Center.
Images for the mural were lent to Stevens by Charles Williams, proprietor of the Williams Historical Museum nearby on Hackberry Street, and student Carlos Moore — whose signature Stevens insisted accompany his on the mural — helped provide a digital collage of the images for the artist to paint from.
“You may stop me, but you can’t stop God,” Mitchell said. “We believed, we prayed and we kept the faith. … We hoped for it, and here it is. God did this,” he intoned, drawing enthusiastic applause. “Y’all, that’s right. Won’t he do it? Yes, he will.”
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