The author of “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” talks about her new family saga set in the 1980s spanning Philadelphia and small-town Alabama with a notable memoirist and novelist.
NJCH is a proud sponsor of the 44th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series presented by the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University-Newark. The series' theme is La Fuerza de las Voces Negras: Afrolatinidades en las Americas; The Power of Black Voices: Afrolatin Identities in the Americas.
NJCH is proud to sponsor the Montclair History Center's 2024 Price of Liberty film series, featuring the films Mann v. Ford (2011) produced by HBO and The Sacrifice Zone (2020) produced by Talking Eyes.
NJCH is a proud sponsor of the exhibition Gallery Aferro: Dignity and Beauty, on display at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey from February 23–May 24, 2024, honoring Gallery Aferro's 20-year legacy.
This hour-long webinar, designed to help potential grantees learn more about the mission of NJCH and about public humanities programming, will explore Incubation and Action Grant guidelines and requirements.
A New York columnist and an Emmy-winning producer discuss their instant New York Times bestseller about a storied Hollywood dynasty with the executive director of Montclair Film.
Mercer County Community College is offering a new Community Journalism certificate program a part of the NJCH's Informed NJ program.
NJCH is proud to sponsor an upcoming virtual lecture presented by the Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites on the life of Civil War heroine Arabella Barlow.
Letters of Intent will be accepted from potential applicants for Round Two of NJCH’s 2023-24 Action and Incubation Grants from March 1-31, 2024.
The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University will host a moderated discussion of two films based on novels that explore themes of racial and ethnic passing, Gentleman’s Agreement and Passing.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning former executive editor of The New York Times discusses a little known chapter of the Civil War including his own ancestors with a National Book Award-winning historian.
NJCH is proud to sponsor "Ain't I A Woman!" at Shea Center for Performing Arts. This chamber music theatre work for actress and trio celebrates the lives and times of four significant African American women: Sojourner Truth, Zora Neale Hurston, Clementine Hunter, and Fannie Lou Hamer.
