by lindaoppenheim | Feb 7, 2019 | Events, Video
The Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System will be celebrating Black History Month by hosting two programs by presenter Al Corbett, The Life and Legacy of Jack Sherrod ,and The Education of Fannie Sherrod, as well as the showing the...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 29, 2019 | Events, history, Video
There will be a free viewing of the film “Sweet George Brown; Impact, Courage, Sacrifice and Will” on Saturday, February 2, 2019 at the St. Barnabas Episcopal Church 142 Sand Hill Rd., Monmouth Junction (732) 297-4607 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Seating is limited...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 20, 2018 | Events
Commemorate African American soldiers who helped shape America’s history with historians and reenactors representing the Harlem Hellfighters of WWI, 6th Regiment USCT of the Civil War, 369th Regiment portrayed by Ebony Doughboys, and others at the Old Barracks...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 6, 2018 | Events
On Thursday-Saturday, February 8, 9 + 10, 2018, at 8:00 p.m., in the Marie & Edward Matthews ’53 Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St., there will be a performance of “Fly,” which dramatizes the historic contributions made by the Tuskegee Airmen to the...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 10, 2017 | Article
Fighting for their country in virtually every war in which the United States was involved did not protect African American veterans once they returned home. The Equal Justice Initiative has produced a history of African American participation in the military and the...
