Join with community members to share in a community reading of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”, with conversation and panelist remarks to follow. Those attending will have their personal reading included in an archive with ADK Black Experience, a video recording of the event will be archived…
Staged Reading of Soulful-Land by Aaron Moore at Youth FX 25 Warren Street, Albany, New York 12202 Soulful-Land is a story about taking back control, about overcoming grief, about letting go of the past - A story of a grieving mother using her grandmother’s ancestral ways to move on. Aaron Moore, founder of Acting With…
When We Come Home: Monologue Reading at the Black Chamber of Commerce and Social Club 141 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12210 A theatre performance performed by A Cast of all Black Women who will read thought provoking monologues from different plays. Directed by Angelique Powell. Aaron Moore, founder of Acting With Aaron, has generously…
Excelsior’s Center for Social Justice, the Civic Engagement Rope Team, the Underground Railroad Education Center, the YWCA of the Greater Capital Region, and the NYS No Hate Capital Region Council are thrilled to invite you to participate in our 2025 democratic engagement dialogue sessions. How do we lift every voice? Let’s explore together the meaning…
Join us for a 5:30pm - 7pm guided tour at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence. Please call ahead to reserve your space. Admission payments can be made online at https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/tours/ or at The Myers Residence via cash, check, and credit card. Don’t forget to check out Myers Mercantile while at The Residence where you…
Call ahead to schedule your tour at The Myers Residence. The Saturday, March 21 tour will be hosted only at 2:00pm. Admission payments can be made online at https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/tours/ or at The Myers Residence via cash, check, and credit card. Don’t forget to check out Myers Mercantile while at The Residence where you will find…
Join with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart and congregation members from 11:20am-12:05pm in the Poling Chapel to share in a conversation about the Underground Railroad of the past and how it is still alive today. Entrance is on the north Church Street side of the building. A Zoom link is available via https://www.frcschenectady.church/events Hope to…
The International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is about remembering the past and it is about taking action today to dismantle the structures that continue to hold back people of African descent. Visit https://www.un.org/en/observances/transatlantic-slave-trade to learn more.
Public tours at The Myers Residence will not be scheduled today, Saturday, March 28 as a class from Siena will be at The Myers Residence from 1:30pm-4pm. Thank you for your understanding. Please call 518-621-7793 to schedule a tour on another day and time. Tour experiences can be scheduled on weekday evenings for individuals and…
Paul and Mary Liz Stewart, independent researchers and Scholars in Residence at Russell Sage College, bring their seminal research on the Underground Railroad movement to the. The Underground Railroad, often remembered as being characterized by tunnels, dark of night escapes, coded language and hidey-holes, was far more extensive and complex than these ideas have led…
Sign up to be part of this unique out-of-school program for high school juniors and seniors. Be an agent of change! Prepare yourself to democratize and diversify the museum field! Meet with other teens at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence every Wednesday from 4pm-7pm and on the 3rd Saturday of each month from 10am-1pm.…
Call ahead to schedule your tour at The Myers Residence. Saturday tours are hosted at 12:30pm and 2:00pm. Admission payments can be made online at https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/tours/ or at The Myers Residence via cash, check, and credit card. Don’t forget to check out Myers Mercantile while at The Residence where you will find great books, puzzles,…