by lindaoppenheim | Apr 25, 2019 | Events, Uncategorized
June 12, 2019, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey This workshop will demonstrate how the arts can be used to engage our communities and audiences in exploring African American history and experience. Following a presentation about how...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 13, 2019 | Events
Rutgers University-Newark graduate student, Noelle Lorraine Williams, designed a sculpture to commemorate Frederick Douglass’s visit to Newark on April 17, 1849 to deliver an address at the former Plane Street Colored Church as a fundraiser for his North Star...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 27, 2019 | Events, Speech
On Tuesday, April 2, 7 pm, at Rutgers-Camden Campus Center (326 Penn Street, Camden, NJ) Dr. Cheryl LaRoche, author of Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance, will given a talk entitled, “In Search of the Underground...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 21, 2019 | Events
At the Wyck House, 6026 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia PA, join friends and neighbors for an afternoon of thoughtful consideration of the lives of women who lived through enslavement in America. The Harriet Tubman Living History Experience highlights and heightens...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 2, 2019 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
A self-guided Heritage Tour, sponsored by the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society (WJHCS) to commemorate 29 noted African American sites in Princeton, is about to become a reality. For many decades Ms. Shirley Satterfield has been conducting...
