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New Haven, Connecticut – The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) at the MacMillan Center at Yale University has been awarded a $30,000 implementation grant from Connecticut Humanities (CTH). The award supports the Black and Latino History Project (BLHP), a series of working groups for Connecticut teachers to study and develop

Black History Month events in the Bridgeport area go virtual Staff reports FacebookTwitterEmail The Wexler Grant Community School hosts a community dinner to celebrate the close of Black History Month in New Haven, Conn., on Thursday Jan. 28, 2019.. The dinner, sponsored by the Family Resource Center and Title I, is called "A Night of Soul." The evening featured student entertainment by the Wexler Grant Dance Team and the Wexler Grant Drum Line. Other highlights included poetry readings, a step...

Written by Weston Historical Society In honor of Black History Month, the Weston Historical Society is hosting, “African Americans and the Impact of the Great Migration in the North and South”, a virtual lecture with guest presenter, Dr. Stacey Close of Eastern Connecticut State University on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 6:30pm via Zoom.  The event is free, but registration is required. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/african-americans-impacts-of-the-great-migration-in-th...