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Plainfield Library Clean Up on FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 at 10:00 am! 22 Aug 2013 | 10:44 pm
Let's Beautify Our Local Treasure! Volunteers Meet on Library Steps Gloves, rakes, and bags will be provided FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013, 10:00 am Plainfield Public Library exterior It's that time ag...
Performing Arts I 8 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
Making her mark with/The willful spirit of a/Negro Ensemble. Ethel Ayler (b. 1934), photo by Van Vechten, 1957.
Baldwin 1 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
Profound intellects/ Dealing in unvarnished truth/ Are always suspect. James Baldwin (1924-1987), by Richard Avedon, 1963.
Baked by a Negro Cookies at the Lincoln Park Music Fest in Newark! 23 Jul 2013 | 06:45 pm
Where delicious cookies and great music collide! *An Afternoon of Jazz Hosted by Amiri Baraka* 12:00 - 3:00 pm *The Newark Idol Competition & Tribute to Motown* 3:00 - 6:00 pm *An Evening of Gosp...
150 Years Ago...the Burning of the Colored Orphans Asylum 12 Jul 2013 | 06:36 pm
<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> Racist fears of these/ “Colored Orphans” and others/ Caused New York to burn. <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> Unknown child, ca. 1860s <!--[if gte mso 9]> Norm...
Octavia E. Butler, American Author 22 Jun 2013 | 08:26 pm
"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things." Octavia E. Butler (June 22,1947- February 24, 2006).
Remembering Anne Frank, Diarist, Born on June 12 12 Jun 2013 | 06:35 pm
Anne Frank, one of the seminal influences on my life as a young girl, was given a diary on June 12, 1942, her 13th birthday. The published version of that diary is one of the most important works of t...
In Memoriam: Medgar Evers, Murdered on June 12, 1963 12 Jun 2013 | 06:12 pm
Medgar Evers was murdered 50 years ago today. Medgar Evers, July 2, 1925 - June 12, 1963 “Only a Pawn in Their Game” 1963 Myrlie Evers and children A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Eve...
