Harvesting Stones: The Jewish Farmers of Eastern Connecticut It’s the 1890s, Connecticut Yankees are selling their rocky farms, Jews are fleeing Czarist Russia, and a Jewish back-to-the-land movement sees turning shtetl refugees into farmers as the best way for them to become productive, self-sufficient Americans. Add some funding from the German-Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de […]
NAACP Community Conversations on Race: Just Mercy, Jun 28, 1:00 PM Please join the Windham/Willimantic Branch of the NAACP for a June 28, 2020 conversation about the 2019 film Just Mercy. For the month of June, this film will be available to rent for free in the US on digital platforms like Netflix, offered for those who […]
THE TALK is a two-hour PBS documentary about the increasingly necessary conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police. Please join the Windham/Willimantic Branch of the NAACP for a July 26, 2020 […]
Join us for a conversation about the Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, that mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement--Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge […]
Why does Minnesota suffer through some of the worst racial disparities in the nation? One answer is the spread of racist, restrictive real estate covenants in the early 20th century. Jim Crow of the North charts the progression of racist policies and practices from the advent of restrictive covenants after the turn of the last […]
Join us for a conversation about this documentary film City of Trees. The film follows three trainees and the the directors of a stimulus-funded green job-training program designed to put unemployed people back to work by caring for parks in Washington DC during the 2008 recession. During the recession, joblessness exceeded 20 percent east of […]
It’s Black History Month so let’s talk about some Black history. Let’s Talk Reparations. Why should Black Americans be given Reparations? What are some ways in which it could be done? How would it change the course of events for the US? Lots of questions! Let’s get some answers together. Register in advance for our […]
Join the Windham/Willimantic NAACP for a conversation about:"Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson.In Ms. Wilkerson's new book, Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson examines the laws and practices that created what she describes as a bipolar, Black and white caste system in the United States. The book steeped in empathy and insight, […]
Join the Windham/Willimantic Branch of the NAACP for a conversation about the Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Massacre of 1921. By 1921, Tulsa’s Black population had grown to almost 11,000, and the […]
Please join us for a community conversation about the 2021 film The First Step. This event will begin with a live virtual screening of the film followed by a conversation […]
Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Adichie Please join the Windham/Willimantic NAACP branch on Zoom for some Conversations about our stories. We will watch a 19-minute TedTalk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and hear her story before we have some open conversations about our own stories. Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping […]
The Windham/Willimantic NAACP and the Windham Theatre Guild present: Community Conversation on Race and TheatreHow do our community theatre's navigate productions that explore the ideas of racial/ethnic identity? In an event that is part reflection, part open rehearsal, and part discussion, we set out to explore how theatre can help us find our voice or […]