What does the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" mean for New Jersey? The legislative conference educates attendees on important state legislation and policy initiatives; provides attendees with opportunities to advocate for future positions and policy with legislators on issues that affect African Americans in the State of New Jersey. Click here to register.
Join the Movement for Black Lives, Drug Policy Alliance, Equity and Transformation, and Law 4 Black Lives on IG Live to discuss the need for Reparations for the War on Drugs, which was first launched 51 years ago. This will be a teach-in for community members, elected officials, and organizations who want to learn more […]
The Crossroads Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of a new American play FREEDOM RIDER, June 10 - June 26, 2022. Written by Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, Murray Horwitz, Nathan Louis Jackson, Ricardo Khan and Nikkole Salter Conceived and Directed by Ricardo Khan. On May 4, 1961, a group of young civil rights activists from colleges and […]
Free Renty tells the story of Tamara Lanier, an African American woman determined to force Harvard University to cede possession of daguerreotypes of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty. Free online film screening will be available to watch on demand. Click here for required advance registration. Spaces are limited.
Learn how to trace your Afro-Caribbean ancestors from the West Indies, including Barbados, Jamaica, and other places. Sharon Wilkins is the President of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - New York chapter. Click here to register for this Zoom program.
Kimme Carlos, CEO and Founder of Kimme Carlos Motivational Consulting LLC., Co-Founder and Lead Facilitator of Sister Wellness Retreats: Healing Spaces for Black Women, and author of The Window of Grace: Living in Recovery through Christian Faith, is the second speaker in the series Mass Incarceration and People of Color: Trauma In, Trauma Out. She […]
Discussion based on the book Humus by Fabienne Kanor and translated by Lynn E. Palermo with the author and translator. Humus is based on a true story of 14 African women, who escaped a slave ship by leaping into shark-infested waters to avoid enslavement. Many drowned or were eaten by sharks. Celebrated French author […]
Keynote Speaker: Ryan P. Haygood, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Sessions: Historic cemeteries and their role in teaching us about the past Historic buildings and how they frame our communities' development over time Emerging monuments and how they are lifting up lesser-known stories A new documentary titled, "The Price of Silence: The Forgotten Story […]
Ruha Benjamin will join Lorgia García Peña to discuss her new book, Community as Rebellion in a hybrid event. Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much like other women scholars of color, García Peña has struggled against the colonizing, […]
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.