BLACK HISTORY
A Triumph of Unity: The Ubuntu Project – I Am Because We Are: Bridgeport
The Klein Theater 910 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport2 Shows: Friday, June 28, 2024 at 7PM Saturday, June 29, 2024 at 6PM A celebration of unity and humanity, "The Ubuntu Project - I Am Because We Are" is a transformative journey through the past, present, and future. This project blends history with contemporary insights, urging us to build a future anchored in respect, […]
Tracing the Footsteps of Hartford’s First Black Church Walking Tour- Hartford History Lecture Series
Center Church 675 Main Street, Hartford*Tour will start at Center Church (675 Main St.) Tracing the Footsteps of Hartford’s First Black Church will begin at Center Church at 10 am with a presentation inside the church by members of the church’s history team. This will allow participants to learn about the genesis of the Talcott Street Church congregation in the […]
“A Black Ecological Return to Charter Oak Terrace”- Hartford History Lecture Series
Connecticut’s Old State House 800 Main St, HartfordChannon Miller, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History, Trinity College As much as water protects, nourishes, and sustains Black children’s lives, it also restrains, suffocates, and degrades them. The residents of Hartford’s Charter Oak Terrace confronted a water-based ecological catastrophe in the 1960s. A flooding river—channeled by municipal neglect, class inequality, and racial segregation—drowned […]
Early Black Women Students at Yale: Lunchtime Webinar with the New Haven Museum
Virtual EventThe lives and careers of Black women who attended Yale from the 1910s through 1940 will be surveyed by Jennifer Coggins, Community Engagement Archivist for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, in a lunchtime webinar for the New Haven Museum (NHM). “Early Black Women Students at Yale,” will be presented on Wednesday, March 5, […]