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 | Apr 12, 2019 | Events
The inaugural fundraiser with the goal of building a public memorial to the 177+ African Americans who were sold into permanent slavery in 1818 by a corrupt Middlesex County judge who resided in East Brunswick. Four ships sailed holding both enslaved and free persons,...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 11, 2019 | Events
Albert Woodfox, prison activist and Black Panther, survived more than four decades of solitary confinement in Louisiana’s notorious Angola state prison—punished for a crime he did not commit. In his new book, Solitary, he tells his story of struggle, transformation,...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 9, 2019 | Events, Video
Princeton University’s African American Studies Department is screening the film on Wednesday, April 10, 5 – 8 pm at 160 Nassau Street. Get free tickets by clicking here.