MLK and the Strength of Shared Dreams
Zoom webinar on Friday, January 21st at 6:30 pm for a live character portrayal and video depicting how MLK’s “Poor Peoples Campaign” was a turning point in intersectional advocacy.
Concord Festival of Authors Kick-Off Keynote Speaker – Dr. Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Join journalist, scholar, and poet Clint Smith as he discusses his celebrated new book, How the Word is Passed: A…
The Essential, Sweeping Story of Juneteenth’s Importance – A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School Professor and Pulitzer-Prize winner for The Hemingses of Monticello, will discuss her newest book, On…
Concord Festival of Authors at The Robbins House – Journey to Freedom – Helping Young Readers Understand Colonial Slavery
Author Ray Shepard and educator Nikki Turpin will look at the inspiring story of Ona Judge and how her daring…
How a forgotten Black activist fueled a California city’s racial reckoning – Los Angeles Times
Sometimes simple calendar items are the introduction to a really good story. Such was the case of teacher and activist Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark and a small notice about the Altadena Historical Society’s Juneteenth celebration of her courageous but little-known life.
Smithsonian Hosts Inaugural Forum – “Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past”
Thursday, Aug. 26th • 7:00 pm ET Streaming virtually from Los Angeles Available for viewing after this here The Smithsonian…
WRITE CONCORD – Letters from an Early Civil Rights Activist
with Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut emeritus professor, and author of The Minutemen and Their World (2001) and of…
Concord’s Black Soldiers in the Revolutionary & Civil Wars: What were they fighting for?
with Joe Zellner, Concord-Carlisle High School Social Studies Teacher Emeritus, Civil War 54th Regiment Re-enactor, and The Robbins House Advisor…
Free Blacks from the Revolutionary War – Civil War: How free were free people of color?
with Bob Bellinger, Suffolk University Black Studies Program Director & The Robbins House Board Member Wednesday, Sept. 29th • 6-7:30…
Concord’s Ellen Garrison Jackson, Fighter for Freedom during Reconstruction: What did she accomplish?
with Maria Madison, Dean of Brandeis Heller School of Equity, Inclusion & Diversity & The Robbins House Co-president Wednesday, Oct.…
