Lawrenceville Celebrates Black History Month

The Lawrenceville School has scheduled a host of Black History Month celebrations – and more are to come! Please continue to check our website and social media channels for additional events and details.

During the February 10 School Meeting, members of the student-led Alliance of Black Cultures, Black Women @ Lawrenceville, Caribbean Students Association, and the Pan-African Alliance will read selections of speeches about Black culture, from the Harlem Renaissance to present day. Lawrentians will also offer reflections on recent issues of racial inequality and justice. This Zoom School meeting is open to current community members only.

Beverly Mills and Sharon Buck will discuss their co-authored book, “If These Stones Could Talk: African American Presence in the Hopewell Valley, Sourland Mountain and Surrounding Regions of New Jersey,” will. This Zoom talk is scheduled for February 11 with additional details to come.

Rider University Associate Dean (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) Brooke Hunter will lecture on the history of slavery and enslaved people in Lawrence Township, N.J. Scheduled for February 17, additional details will be forthcoming about this Zoom talk.

Lawrenceville will welcome Bettina Love to School Meeting via Zoom on February 24. Love is the Athletic Association Endowed Professor at the University of Georgia and author of the books “We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom” and “Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South.” This Zoom School meeting is open to current community members only.

Other events are in the works, including a film festival, poetry reading, and more. The Bunn Library will also share a list of books written by Black women authors.

For additional information, please contact Lisa M. Gillard Hanson, director of Public Relations, at lgillard@lawrenceville.org.