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Black Lives Matter / “A Fight for Change” Exhibit Opening

Plainfield Public Library 800 Park Avenue, Plainfield, NJ, United States

In this program, Kalani "Afrolombian" Jimenez-Mackson will explain the importance of photojournalism and its ability to control our narratives with the truth. Photojournalism techniques, philosophy, and process will be the main topics in this exploration of image and photography. Through imagery and words, the audience will step back and look at a moment in United […]

Free

Story & Verse: Circle of Life

Pettoranella Gardens 20 Mountain Avenue, Princeton, NJ, United States

Monthly open mic poetic and storytelling event that welcomes local and regional talent to perform original works inspired by that month's theme and brings diverse communities together.  Interested performers should arrive 15 minutes before the start time of each event.

Black Voices Book Group

Virtual Event

In September, the group will discuss, "Black Sunday: A Novel" by Tolo Rotimi Abraham. All are welcome, no registration required. This group meets via Google Meet  (click on the link here to join) Google Meet works best using the Chrome internet browser.  

Free

How Reclaiming Anti-Racism Can Save Our Democracy

Streaming live

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, Co-founder and Executive Director at The African American Policy Forum, will be joined by Barbara Arnwine, Keith Ellison, Pat Williams, and Terrence Woodbury in Martha’s Vineyard and streaming live. . . . .  This conversation will serve as a unique opportunity to not only draw the connections between the attack on racial […]

Free

Teaching Outside the Textbook About the Red Scare: Subversives in Labor Organizing and the Black Freedom Struggle

Virtual Zoom Event

In this session, participants will experience a mixer lesson that can be used in grade 7+ classrooms. Students meet 27 different targets of government harassment and repression to analyze why disparate individuals might have become targets of the same campaign, determining what kind of threat they posed in the view of the U.S. government. Participants […]

Free

Clay Street Block Party

Clay Street 16 - 82 Clay Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

Back after a hiatus of a few years, the Clay Street Block Party.  There will be food, music, games, and face-painting. Come join the fun.

Free

Let’s Talk About Race: How Racial Healthcare Disparities Affect our Community

Virtual Zoom Event

Parker Family Health Center's Executive Director, Suzy Dyer and Founder Dr. Eugene Cheslock will present on the Parker Family, the Clinic, and how COVID affected the Red Bank Community. Our special guest will be Dr. Carol Penn.  Click here to register for Zoom link.

Free

The Trifecta: The Secret Sauce of Researching the Formerly Enslaved, with Nicka Sewell-Smith

Plainfield Public Library 800 Park Avenue, Plainfield, NJ, United States

Genealogists and family historians alike have spent decades looking for a tried and true method for unearthing slaveholders of those enslaved prior to 1865. Learn how three crucial record sets (Civil War Pensions, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Probates/Successions) can become just the wrecking ball needed to obliterate brick walls related to slavery. Presenter Nicka Sewell-Smith […]

Free

Continuing Conversations on Race and White Privilege: The Somatics of Being a Racial Being

Virtual Zoom Event

At September's Continuing Conversation, on TUESDAY, September 6, We hold being racial beings in our bodies and that gets passed down through the generations. White people as a collective tend not to see themselves as racial beings so when invited in or called out about whiteness they don’t have the capacity or haven’t built the […]

Free

Artist Conversation: Rose B. Simpson

Art@Bainbridge 158 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United States

Drawing inspiration from her life, Rose B. Simpson creates figural sculptures that evoke common human experiences—insomnia, aspiration, gender stereotypes, and more—and encourage an empathic response from the viewer. Join us for a virtual conversation with Simpson, facilitated by curator Bryan R. Just. Simpson will discuss specific works included in Witness as well as her artistic practice […]

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1619 Project: Reckoning w/ The Truth. Nikole-Hannah Jones, Khalil Muhammad

Old First Church Presbyterian 820 Broad Street, Newark, NJ, United States

A Very Special Community Conversation Featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine and Creator of The 1619 Project, "The 1619 Project: Reckoning With The Truth." Moderated by: Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 1619 Project Contributor. Click here to register. 1:30pm - 2:30pm: Performances Produced […]

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