The Pomfret Historical Society was awarded a grant from the Connecticut Humanities enabling the organization to offer four historical workshops all to do with Waking the Dead: Archaeology, Genealogical and Archival Research About Enslaved Africans in Windham County....
Please join us to honor Juneteenth with Dr. Stacey Close! The Windham-Willimantic NAACP Chapter and the Willimantic Public Library invites you to attend Dr. Stacey Close’s virtual presentation Juneteenth: A Lesson in American History. Register Now! Dr. Stacey...
COME JOIN US AND CELEBRATE JUNETEENTH WITH FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL AT CRAIG’S SOUL FOOD KITCHEN! A portion of the proceeds from the meals sold will be donated to the Windham-Willimantic NAACP. From Chef Craig Wright – “Soul is about appreciating every day...
The Windham-Willimantic NAACP voted unanimously recently to pass a resolution proposed by the Environmental Justice Committee calling for development and construction of clean, renewable energy sources throughout the state as a top priority over the next...
The question that lingers in the back of America’s collective mind for sixty years has been, “Will racism fade away when old bigots die?” NPR decided to ask this question in their December 2016 callout. Among the one hundred plus responders, a...
