What did the landscape of racial learning in schools look like leading up to this moment? What foundational lessons about race are children are learning in school? What big drivers shape how and what children learn about race in school? How can we empower all children and adults by incorporating developmentally appropriate, healthy teaching and […]
As part of the Monmouth County Historical Association's Historically Speaking Virtual Lecture Series, Dr. Linda Caldwell Epps will speak to the questions Does history impact the way we see and think of ourselves and others? We owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our hopes to our history. How do our public markers […]
Join Princeton officials raising a flag in recognition of Juneteenth.
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.
The 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 […]
Third 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 […]
Access 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 […]
Commemoration 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.
NJ 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 […]
View 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.
Reverend 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 […]