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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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1619, 1654, 2022: Jews, Race and U.S. History

Virtual Zoom Event

Dr. Marc Dollinger, who holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University, will explore historical documents about Jews and racism to consider how racism has informed what is means to “become American” over time and place. The talk is being held in conjunction with […]

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Artist Talk: Mario Moore

Virtual Zoom Event

Talk by artist Mario Moore to celebrate the installation of his painting The Great Reckoning, now on view in the atrium of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. The work depicts Moore’s ancestor, a Black Union Army soldier who fought in the Civil War, and invites us to consider the contested histories that […]

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Creating the Black + Jewish Exhibit

Virtual Zoom Event

Adina Langer, curator at the Kennesaw Museum of History and Holocausat Education (GA), who guided the creation of the exhibit “Black + Jewish: Connection, Courage, Community,”  which will be on display at The Jewish Center of Princeton from September 17 – October 31, 2022, will speak about the decisions and the process that went into […]

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Continuing Conversations on Race and White Privilege: Understanding Racialized Trauma

Virtual Zoom Event

October's presenter is Jessica C. Kim, a licensed clinical social worker, mental health advocate, and current PhD candidate in social welfare at the University of Pennsylvania, who will talk about Asian Americans being racialized as perpetual foreigners, model minorities, and as yellow peril. This conversation will help us think about how Asian Americans as well […]

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