On Monday, June 1, 2020, at 5 PM, we will be holding a protest to bring more awareness and impactful action to help in the fight against racial injustice, police brutality, and systemic racism. We wish to stand in solidarity with the communities of Breyanna Taylor, George Floyd and so many more. Program ● A…
Friday, June 19, 2020 • 12:00-12:08:46 p.m • On our own, together in spirit
We introduced our family-friendly Juneteenth event at the Robbins House two years ago. This year, due to COVID we're planning an 8 minutes and 46 second vigil in honor of Juneteenth.
Friday, June 19, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 p.m. Offered by the Royall House and Slave Quarters, the Shaw 54th Memorial Restoration Committee: Museum of African American History, National Park Service, Friends of the Public Garden, and the City of Boston. Click here for details and registration. Poetry as Protest: Dr. Malcolm Tariq Join a webinar of…
Virtual Reading of Frederick Douglass’s Speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Saturday, July 4th • 10 a.m. • Recorded for viewing anytime On July 4th friends and supporters of The Robbins House will be reading Frederick Douglass’s speech together virtually. We invite you to log in and join us, and stay…
Concord Museum Forums Event Kerri Greenidge, Director of American Studies at Tufts University, reestablishes William Monroe Trotter’s essential place in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. For more than thirty years, the Harvard-educated Trotter edited and published the Guardian, a weekly Boston newspaper that was read across the nation. Trotter advocated for a radical…
Massachusetts Historical Society & Sponsors Online Public Program Tonight! Thurs, Feb. 18th • 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. The Confronting Racial Injustice Series offers five monthly programs hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and Northeastern University Law School’s Criminal Justice Task Force, sponsored by a number of Boston area organizations. Massachusetts is often heralded as the…
With Angela Saini, author of Superior: The Return of Race Science Free – registration required The Museum of Science welcomes award-winning science journalist, broadcaster, and author of Superior: The Return of Race Science Angela Saini for a special one-night-only virtual conversation about the murky history of race science and the ways in which it’s being…
As the Concord Museum installs a new permanent gallery to chronicle the history of slavery in our town and the efforts to abolish it, join us for a conversation with Kyera Singleton (Executive Director of The Royall House and Slave Quarters) and Niya Bates (formerly a public historian at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello) as they discuss…
Directed by Barbara Pierre; Accompanied by David Coleman Thurs. Feb. 25th • 8:00 p.m. • In collaboration with The Robbins House Free - registration required Join The Umbrella for a special Black History Month edition of their virtual cabaret series produced in collaboration with The Robbins House. Performers will present songs on the themes of…
Concord Museum Virtual Event Co-sponsored by The Robbins House Register here https://concordmuseum.org/events/the-letters-of-ellen-garrison/. Ellen Garrison, the daughter and granddaughter of men who had been enslaved, spent her life educating newly freed people and fighting for their civil rights. Born and raised in Concord, she followed in her mother’s footsteps as an antislavery activist. After the Civil…
