Join us for the first annual State of Black Maine Symposium at USM in Portland this Juneteenth!
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This will be a day of rich conversation, music, connection, learning, and celebration.
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Place Justice event: Change the Name screening & conversation - https://t.co/I7S39YwhkB Join us May 23rd @ 5pm - Youth leaders from Chicago will be in conversation with their counterparts from Brookline, describing their efforts to remove the names of enslavers
Through powerful and thought-provoking discussions, this symposium will offer a dynamic forum for our communities to grapple with the history and legacies of slavery and forced migration in our lives today. https://t.co/1Ips7EmzR7
Art in the Wake Symposium - https://t.co/A1yd9f3d5H Mark Your Calendars! Join us on May 19th- 20th in Portland, ME for Art in the Wake: Reckoning and Re-membering. Tap on the link to register 🔗: https://t.co/gnTtxBhAfh
This event is part of First Parish’s ongoing truth telling and reconciliation process of telling the dark story of a bounty posse against the Penobscot in 1757 in which members of the early church participated. https://t.co/JGofXH9R8H
Join Black constituents, business owners, local elected officials, faith leaders, educators, advocacy organizations, and allies in Augusta for the first Maine Black Voices Advocacy Day!
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Lise Breen raises questions about the nature of enslavement in New England and its interpretation, presenting sketches of four enslaved people with ties to Gloucester, Massachusetts. https://t.co/1W1q7lsxBv
Tomorrrow! Place Justice Bounty screening & conversation - https://t.co/ImxJTioq2O The hidden story of the scalp-bounty proclamations used to exterminate Native people in order to take their land in what is now New England. Learn more and register: https://t.co/Fu5NYipE7z