Caring Chronicles

HDI is proud to announce that it has received grants from U.S. Embassy Bahrain and U.S. Embassy Oslo to support culinary diplomacy.

Soul Food Scholar Adrian Miller will present a Virtual African American Thanksgiving Dinner in both the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Kingdom of Norway in November, 2020.  Adrian Miller is an HDI cultural envoy and the author of Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time and The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washington to the Obamas.

Mr. Miller will also travel to Bahrain and Norway to do on-site demonstrations and lectures once international exchanges resume in 2021

Under the auspices of HDI’s Music Matters program, HDI Celebrity Spokesperson Mary Wilson traveled to Slovenia and Belgium for a week of outreach and performances in honor of Black History Month, February 3-7, 2020. Working with the U.S. Mission to the European Union (USEU) and the U.S. Embassy to Slovenia, Mary Wilson and her six-person band performed at the major concert halls of Maribor, Slovenia and Brussels, Belgium. Miss Wilson also spoke at schools and at the European Parliament on the intersection of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Motown.

HDI’s Jazz/Hip-Hop Envoy Maya Azucena had been scheduled to be the special guest of U.S. Embassy Baku for International Jazz Day on April 30, 2020. We are all greatly disappointed that the program has been postponed to later in 2020. Until then, Maya wants to give jazz lovers in Azerbaijan and around the world a preview of the upcoming concert

The Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) is pleased to announce that as a result of a large donation of medical equipment by the China Construction Bank (CCB) New York Branch we were able arrange for 10,000 protective masks, 2,000 face shields, and 200 infra-red thermometers distributed to community health centers and its frontline workers in Newark and Jersey City on May 11, 2020.