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Kerwin Webb: Equal Justice Initiative Historical Marker in Eatontown, January 29, 2020
On Wednesday, January 29, 6:30-8:30 PM at the award-winning program “Let’s Talk About Race” at the Red Bank Public Library, 84 W. Front St., Red Bank, Kerwin Webb of the Greater Red Bank NAACP will present a program on efforts by…
Read MoreMassive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery
“Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade,” a database, which will serve as a clearinghouse for information about enslaved people and their captors, will launch in 2020. The tool will link information from projects like Vanderbilt’s “Slave Societies Digital Archive” …
Read MoreEvanston, Ill., Has A Reparations Plan
On NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, Evanston, Illinois Alderwoman Robin Rue Simmons describes the town’s plan to use a portion of the taxes collected on the sale of recreational marijuana to help African American residents who are being priced out of…
Read MoreCelebrating and Talking Race with Our Neighbors, December 6 and December 13, 2019
We are sorry that the weather interfered with the Not in Our Town Princeton Continuing Conversation on Race on December 2. Fortunately, the program will be rescheduled. Stay tuned. In the meantime, take advantage of gatherings in nearby locations. On…
Read More‘No Longer Forgotten’: Ohio Students Have Headstone Made for Black Settlers
“A group of eighth graders found two unmarked cemetery plots where black inhabitants were buried. They placed a plaque on the graves this week to remember the families. . . . They did not know the families interred. Nor were…
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