Not In Our Town Princeton

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March 3, 10, 17 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Transforming White Organizational Culture

Live, interactive online workshop.  For workshop details click here.  To register, click here.  Fee: $125.

March 4 2:30 p.m. A Conversation with Public Intellectual Eddie Glaude, Jr on the Complex Dynamics of the American Experience. Register for the event here.

March 4 7:00 p.m. Family and Community in African American Poetry — A “Lift Every Voice” Event

March 4, 11, and 18, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.  Sankofa Collective: Health as a Civil Right

March 4, Racism and Health, March 11 Policy and Racial Health Disparities, March 18, Community Responses to Racial Health Disparities. Pre-registration is not necessary. To join via Zoom go to https://bit.ly/3iASFoq Participate by phone: +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) Meeting ID: 881 9470 5613 Passcode: 199884. A suggested donation of $20 per session will be gratefully accepted. Click https://bit.ly/39UBSZx to make a donation via PayPal

March 5 noon Lecture by Raina Lampkins-Fielder,

Lampkins-Fielder is curator for the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of communities that gave rise to the art made by African American artists of the South—including the Gee’s Bend quiltmakers. Details and free registration for the lecture here.

March 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20    Making African America:A Virtual Symposium on Immigration and the Changing Dynamics of Blackness

Symposium brings together scholars, journalists, activists, curators, filmmakers and writers to discuss how immigration has shaped and is continuing to reshape what it means to be black in the United States. Presented by University of Maryland, College Park, and National Museum of African American History and Culture.  Click here for information and registration.

March 6 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Labor Against Hate: The Role of Workers in Standing against White Supremacy and Fascism. 

Dr. Paul Frymer, Princeton University, and Dr. Jacob Grumbach, University of Washington and the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies lead an open discussion with other union activists and labor leaders who have been integrating anti-racist and anti-fascist programming in their unions. Click here to register.

March 11 5:30 p.m. Conversation: Glenn Ligon and Hilton Als

Artist Glenn Ligon joins Pulitzer Prize–winning author, critic, and Princeton’s Presidential Visiting Scholar Hilton Als to discuss the ways in which art can engage and rethink the most urgent issues of our time. Details and free registration here.

March 20 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. US Immigration after COVID: Call to Action for an Equitable Future

Hear stories of real people affected and what is needed to address prejudice towards immigrants and inequities in our systems and learn about work and policies to fix the US immigration system.  Click here to register.

March 25 4:30 p.m. Cascading Crises: Race, COVID-19, and the Matter of Life and Death

Catherine Clune-Taylor, Assistant Professor of Feminist Science and Technology Studies in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University discusses two new threads of this work after a brief review of this larger project, The Matter of Black Life and Death. Register for the event here.

March 31 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Red Bank Public Library “Let’s Talk About Race” 

Click here to register.

There are many groups to be recognized in March as noted in the calendar below. Thanks to NIOT friend, Maria-Cruz Garcia, for bringing it to our attention.