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Target Circle Fundraising Program – vote for UREC when you make a purchase

UREC is participating in the Target Circle program! You can vote for us and help direct Target’s giving to benefit UREC by making a purchase online, at a Target store, or via the Target app. For full program details and restrictions visit Target Circle at target.com/circle. Setting up an account in Target Circle allows you…

Pass the Plate – at First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany

First Unitarian Universalist Societ of Albany 405 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York

Join with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart at the January 15 service at First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany as congregation members Pass the Plate, raising funds to support the work of Underground Railroad Education Center as it engages with the community to empower community members to be agents of change toward an equitable and…

Black Resistance

The Blake Annex 1 Steuben Place, Albany, New York

The Albany County Legislative Black Caucus presents a Black History Month Panel on Black Resistance scheduled for February 1 from 5:30-6:30pm at The Black Annex located at 1 Steuben Place, Albany, 12207. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Join with distinguished Albany change-makers to hear their thoughts on relevant contemporary issues and join…

The Underground Railroad and Albany’s South End

Howe Library 105 Schuyler St, Albany, NY

Join with Paul and Mary LIz Stewart to learn about the Underground Railroad and its relationship with Albany's South End. Bring your questions, comments, thoughts about this historic civil rights movement that had an active presence in the city of Albany and continues to inform civil rights efforts toda.    

Daniel Stewart Memorial Fund – Planning Committee Meeting

Online via Zoom

Evaluation of the Award Event and steps moving forward will be the topic of discussion at the February 7, 2023 Daniel Stewart Memorial Fund meeting. This award is named in honor of Daniel Stewart who contributed his photography skills to photographically record the happenings of UREC. His life was cut short at the young age…

The Underground Railroad Revisited – at Messiah Lutheran Church Community Center

Messiah Lutheran Church Community Center 705 Curry Road, Schenectady, New York

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 us to believe. In the midst of significant pro-slavery sentiment, New York State was home to many abolitionists working to abolish the institution of enslavement in…

“The Interview” – a screening and discussion

Online

For Black History Month Kingston 2023, The Library at the A.J. Williams- Myers African Roots Center, ENJAN (End the New Jim Crow Action Network) Kingston, and the YWCA Ulster County are going to host a screening of the documentary "The Interview" co-sponsored by RAPP (Releasing Aging People from Prisons) and the People's Campaign for Parole…

Stephen Myers and the Underground Railroad

Online

Join Mary Liz and Paul Stewart as they discuss Harriet and Stephen Myers, Black abolitionists whose residence was a headquarters for Underground Railroad activity in the Capital Region in the mid-1850's. The Myers serve as a lasting legacy for social justice and reform. Their home is now a museum and community place for gathering that…

Black Authors in the Hudson Valley Book Talk – Janell Hobson and “When God Lost Her Tongue”

Professor Java's Coffee Sanctuary Shoppers Plaza - 145 Wolf Road, Albany, NY

This is a hybrid event via Zoom (link below) and in-person at Professor Java's Coffee Sanctuary (address below) When God Lost Her Tongue explores historical consciousness as captured through the Black feminist imagination that re-centers the perspectives of Black women in the African Diaspora, and revisits how Black women’s transatlantic histories are re-imagined and politicized in…

Anti-Slavery in Columbia County and the Region

Online

Columbia County was an important and vibrant community in the first half of the 19th century. Temperance, reform movements and Underground Railroad activity were part of the antebellum period. Numerous freedom seekers, such as Peter Wheeler pictured here, made their way to the region, some to settle, some to find respite before moving on, knowing…

The Underground Railroad: a New Interpretation of an Old Story

Messiah Lutheran Church 2850 Guilderland Avenue, Schenectady, NY

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 us to believe. In the midst of significant pro-slavery sentiment, New York State was home to many abolitionists working to abolish the institution of enslavement in…

The Underground Railroad Revisited

The Crossings 580 Albany Shaker Road, Loudonville, NY

  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…