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… where the Mill River meets the Quinnipiac. More than 1,000 Black men stood before him, gathered in front of a large … Frederick Douglass had come to address Connecticut’s first Black regiment in the Civil War. As  Juneteenth  approaches, … people joined the encampment that they formed a second Black regiment, the 30th C.V. But despite the speed with …

… the first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African …

… of people missing from the history books, the stories of black women and girls. We met soon afterwards at a teacher’s … been a year since I invited Joe to speak at the National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference which was hosted by the  Rhode Island Black Storytellers  (aka, RIBS). Joe had no idea then how …

… School in Philadelphia in 1958, and was the school’s first black student and graduate. She earned a bachelor’s degree …