This June 17, go to “Encourage!” Newark’s Underground Railroad pop-up exhibition, for refreshments and feedback by historian and artist Noelle Lorraine Williams from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Then be part of the strolling tour “Whose American Revolution? The Tales of Slavery and Indigenous Historical past within the Monuments of Harriet Tubman Sq.” from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. for an illuminating discuss in regards to the numerous methods by which the park’s 18th- and Nineteenth-century statues and monuments join with tales of revolution, slavery, Black liberation, and Indigenous historical past.
Meet at Newark Public Library (5 Washington Avenue, Newark, NJ 07102).
Registration required: https://bit.ly/warregister. For more information, name 973-733-7784.
