BLKFREEDOM.org Live Stream

An invitation from Scotch Plains Public Library:

“Through our partnership with PBS, we have been invited to stream through the library website the event launching BLKFREEDOM.org, a digital commemoration of Juneteenth developed by six leading Black museums and historical institutions.

BLKFREEDOM.org is a combined effort between Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (Detroit, MI), Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park (Hilton Head Island, SC), Northwest African American Museum (Seattle, WA), Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater (Miami, FL), National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, OH), and the National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN).

The event is going to feature cultural performances from Africa and across America, educational content, and appearances by:

  • Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American and first historian to serve as the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

  • Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, anthropologist, educator, museum director and the first female African American president of Spelman College

  • The Honorable Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, the first woman and the first African American to lead the national library

To view the live stream at noon and to consult the collection of anti-racism resources curated by the librarians at SPPL, click here

To watch the BLKFREEDOM.org video later and explore the other resources offered at this site , click here.


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