Juneteenth Flag Raising
Monument Hall 1 Monument Drive, Princeton, NJ, United StatesJoin Princeton officials raising a flag in recognition of Juneteenth.
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Story & Verse: To Be Free Is to Be Bold
Pettoranella Gardens 20 Mountain Avenue, Princeton, NJ, United StatesMonthly 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.
SSAAM Juneteenth
Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum 189 Hollow Road, Skillman, NJ, United StatesThe Stoutsburg Sourlands African American Museum welcomes you back to Mt. Zion AME Church and the historic True Farmstead for a Juneteenth celebration of freedom: live music, artist workshops, poetry, speakers, activities for kids, and delicious BBQ from "The Big Easy." This event will take place RAIN or SHINE! Please bring your own picnic blankets […]
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Transformative Justice: Helping the formerly incarcerated find their way home
Nassau Presbyterian Church 61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesThird and final speaker in the series "After Incarceration: Bending the Moral Arc Toward Justice in the season of Juneteenth," Antonne Henshaw is Director of the Transformative Justice Initiative, a non-profit community service organization that helps formerly incarcerated people enter society. He will share his own experience with incarceration, his return to Camden, New Jersey […]
Juneteenth Freedom Day
Princeton Family YMCA 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton, NJ, United StatesEnsuring Health for All
Virtual Zoom EventAccess to affordable quality healthcare is out of reach for many New Jersey residents. The fifth installment of the IMAGINE MORE series will break down the spectrum of healthcare disparities and seek solutions to remedying the gaps in mental healthcare, maternal health, and environmental health for Black and Brown New Jersey residents. Featured speakers: Denise […]
Fair Chance in Housing: Where Are We Now?
Virtual Zoom EventCommemoration of the one-year signing anniversary of the Fair Chance in Housing Act, a law that provides the strongest protections against housing discrimination in the country for individuals with prior criminal legal system involvement—a population that is disproportionately Black. Click here to register.
Slavery in New Jersey
NJ PBS Englewood, NJ, United StatesNJ PBS will broadcast the two-part documentary The Price of Silence: The Forgotten Story of New Jersey’s Enslaved People that seeks to fill a gap in Garden State history by sharing the little-known legacy of slavery across New Jersey. Experts sharing testimony include experts like author Beverly Mills, who have devoted their careers to studying […]
Witherspoon-Jackson Neighborhood NAMING PROJECT
Arts Council of Princeton 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesView the late Romus Broadway's photojournalism that spans years of Princeton's traditional African American Witherspoon-Jackson community. Help identify yourself and any others you know in the photos before the collection is submitted for preservation.
Let’s Talk About Race: Juneteenth
Virtual Zoom EventReverend Kerwin Webb and panel will discuss Juneteenth, presenting the history and legacy of the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the South. On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger and more than 2,000 Union troops brought word of slavery's end to Galveston, Texas, freeing the last enslaved people. It took over two […]
Screening and Virtual Discussion of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Virtual EventConversation about Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America will be held on June 30, from 3 to 4:15 pm ET (2 pm CT, 1 pm MT, 12 pm PT). National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) will host a live chat between Jeffery Robinson, executive director of The Who We Are Project, and Khalil […]
Reading: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Virtual Zoom EventCommunity members read an amended version of Frederick Douglass' influential speech, given on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, to the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society. To register, please click on this Google form. You may also use this form to indicate interest in being a reader. The life and works of Frederick Douglass continue […]