By Meadow Dibble At a time when those committed to truth and justice are gripped by what Martin Luther King, Jr. described as the “fierce urgency of now,” it may feel like researching, studying, and discussing history are luxuries we can’t afford. Like we can’t turn our eyes away from the crisis unfolding before us. … Continue reading Who gets to define our shared story?
This Saturday: Join ABB & Partners for The Walk to Unsettle Portland
On Saturday, June 22, Atlantic Black Box and The Third Place’s EcoBIPOC Network invite you to join The Walk to Unsettle Portland, a daylong collective practice—at once physical, emotional, creative, and intellectual—in unsettling our understanding of this place by surfacing the suppressed stories of those who walked here before us. Please join us for all or part of the day.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | Recovering Black History: A Workshop on 4/17/24
Hosted by Partnership of Historic Bostons How do you find out about Black families in your town? Historians Jennifer Carroll and Michelle Stahl show us how to un-erase Black history Wednesday, April 17 · 7:00 - 8:30pm EDT Register here The overflowing multitude of documents, photographs and artifacts in the archives of two local history … Continue reading Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | Recovering Black History: A Workshop on 4/17/24
Partnership of Historic Bostons Events | Recovering Black History in New England on 3/27 and 4/17
Hosted by Partnership of Historic Bostons What happens when people are made invisible? Can they be brought back to life, at least in historical memory? Register here Find out how to recover untold stories in this two-part series, Recovering Black History in New England, on Wednesday, March 27, and Wednesday, April 17, both on Zoom from … Continue reading Partnership of Historic Bostons Events | Recovering Black History in New England on 3/27 and 4/17
Event tonight | Atlantic Black Box: Collectively Rewriting the Story of New England @ 6:30 pm
Hosted by Freeport Historical Society Thu, Dec 2, 2021, 6:30 PM EST Register here Meadow Dibble, PhD, will share how communities across New England are actively recovering the suppressed history of region's deep investment in the Atlantic world economy of enslavement New England has long repressed the memory of its complicity in Atlantic world slavery, … Continue reading Event tonight | Atlantic Black Box: Collectively Rewriting the Story of New England @ 6:30 pm