Welcoming New Hampshire

Online - The Impact of American Exceptionalism on Culture and Policy
2021-02-15 19:00 (America/New_York) | NH, United States
Please join NH Peace Action as we listen to a timely dissection and analysis of the impact of American Exceptionalism on culture & policy with Prof. Eric Cheyfitz and facilitated by NH Peace Action board member, Jeremy Love.
Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University, is a faculty member of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP). Dr. Cheyfitz has served as director of theAIISP, the faculty coordinator of the Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, and the director of the Mellon Post-doctoral Diversity Seminar. His scholarship and teaching focus on the force of settler colonialism on Indigenous peoples and their ongoing resistance in the form of alternative ways of thought and action to the predatory capitalism embedded in settler existence.
His most recent book is The Disinformation Age: The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States (PaperBoat Press, 2019), which in its final chapter, “Thinking From A Different Place: What Is A Just Society?,” offers, beyond “the limits of capitalism’s imagination,” an Indigenous alternative to the way out of the current crisis of climate collapse and wealth inequality.

Online - FSNE Racial Equity Leadership
2021-02-12 09:00 - 13:00 | NH, United States
As we grapple with pandemic disruptions and political polarization, reckon with emboldened white supremacy, and face ever-growing challenges from the climate crisis, the importance of standing firm in a commitment to racial equity and justice in our food system is growing.
How does racial equity connect to the work for resilient food systems?
What does it look like in our communities and institutions?
How can we advance multi-racial movement for justice?
What does this mean for BIPOC and white agents of change?
What are some of the opportunities we can lean into now?
Hear from special guests about how we can advance racial equity in these challenging times, what opportunities exist for networks to make gains across food, farming and fishing sectors, and how can we best direct our collective efforts to impact this important work to democratically guide our food system towards sustainability and resilience.
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Online - A Conversation on COVID-19 Vaccine with Dr. Anthony Fauci & the American-Muslim Community
2021-02-11 13:30 | NH, United States
As questions about Covid-19 vaccines and treatments arise, American Muslim Health Professionals (AMHP) is excited to invite you to attend an exclusive meeting with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Register here
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Anthony Stephen Fauci is an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. Since 2020, Dr. Fauci has had a leading role in the White House Coronavirus Task Force and is currently serving as the Chief Medical Adviser on COVID-19 to President Joe Biden.

Online - Budget Advocacy Training
2021-02-10 15:00 - 16:30 | NH, United States
New Futures Budget Advocacy Training

Learn all about the NH state budget process and how to advocate within it! 2021 is a critical budget year for NH as we collectively face many unprecedented challenges. It’s important to advocate for investments for the issues you care about. Along with giving an overview of how the process works, we’ll also review some issues you can advocate for this session for a Healthy NH State Budget, including funding for public health programs, the healthcare workforce, children and adult behavioral health services, and supports for children and families. Learn more about our 5 Point Plan for a Healthy NH State Budget here!​
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Online - The First Weeks of Transition: Rapid Changes to Immigration Policy
2021-02-09 13:00 - 14:00 | NH, United States
Immigration policy has been on fire over the past few years and the Biden-Harris Administration has already issued a series of Executive Orders and policy changes that signal early attempts to squelch the flames and provide protections. Over the past few months, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), in collaboration with a plethora of organizations, has zealously prepared to hit the ground running to advocate for access to justice and due process with dignity as new policies become realized. Join NIJC’s policy experts for a rundown of changes to immigration policies in the initial weeks of the Biden-Harris Administration and the vision we are pursuing for the future of immigration law and policy. FREE CLE credit in IL is available.
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NIJC’s Policy Corner are monthly presentations to provide updates on policy matters affecting immigration. These presentations are open to all community members and pro bono attorneys.

Online - NH Professionals of Color
2021-02-09 13:00 | NH, United States
Spotlighting NH Local Business Owners of Color!

About this Event

New Hampshire is well known for its business friendly atmosphere, but what’s it like to start a business here as a young person of color?
In this virtual story telling event, hear from three New Hampshire-based entrepreneurs of color who will share their personal and business experiences – including both their challenges and their successes – here in the Granite State.
A live Q&A will follow each speaker.
Register here
About the Speakers:
Gail Somers – Based in Keene, Gail Somers is the owner of Yahso Jamaican Grille. Yahso Jamaican Grille features authentic Jamaican Cuisine as well as some modern fusion of Caribbean-American dishes. The restaurant is best known for its “feel good” food and a “casual vibe” that captures the essence of a Caribbean island. Before launching this local eatery, Gail held various positions in finance and sales with major food manufacturing and distribution companies. She also serves on several boards and committees for causes she is very passionate about, including the Keene Racial Justice and Safety Committee and the Monadnock Area Transitional Shelter.
Geno Miller – Born and raised in the Washington, DC, area, Geno is the cofounder and CEO of Shtudy, a Manchester-based career matchmaking platform that screens, trains, and connects top tech talent of color with companies that are building more diverse and inclusive workforces. Geno has a profound love for scaling companies and solving social problems that improve peoples’ lives. Geno has founded four successful startups since age 14. In his leisure time, you can find him listening to Lil Wayne or Jay-Z, reading a book about Ray Dalio, blogging about the latest topics in tech, or brainstorming with other mission-driven tech founders.
Jose Diaz – Jose Diaz is founder of Spyglass Eyewear, a Laconia-based optical boutique shop featuring one-on-one curated experiences. Spyglass Eyewear carries its own brand of eyewear and offers convenient tele-medicine vision exams. Jose has more than 20 years in the optical industry. Originally from New York City, Jose started his career working with some of the top eyewear designers in the city. In 2004 he relocated to Boston, opening an eyewear company on Newbury Street. He learned that creating a memorable and unique experience with a quality product is key to building a brand. After moving to Boston, most weekends were spent in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. With a growing family, Jose and his wife decided to move to Gilford in 2016. In July 2020 Spyglass Eyewear opened its doors in Laconia. With a downtown redevelopment project already on the way, the opening of the shop was welcomed with open arms. The goal is to provide the best service and to encourage the growth of the local small business community.
Details on how to join the Zoom call will be sent upon registration!
About Stay Work Play’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Series:
As an organization committed to attracting and retaining more young people in New Hampshire, Stay Work Play stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and is committed to making New Hampshire a more welcoming, inclusive, and just place for people of color. As a part of this effort, Stay Work Play will offer a series of diversity, equity, and inclusion events to foster conversation, enable learning experiences, and push for change.

Online - The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song
2021-02-08 18:00 | NH, United States
Produced in partnership with the New Hampshire Humanities, New Hampshire PBS presents an online screening and discussion of the new PBS documentary, THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG on Monday, February 8th at 6pm.
This moving two-part series from executive producer, host and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, all the way down to its bedrock role as the site of African American survival and grace, organizing and resilience, thriving and testifying, autonomy and freedom, solidarity and speaking truth to power. The documentary reveals how Black people have worshipped and, through their spiritual journeys, improvised ways to bring their faith traditions from Africa to the New World, while translating them into a form of Christianity that was not only truly their own, but a redemptive force for a nation whose original sin was found in their ancestors’ enslavement across the Middle Passage.
After the 30 minute screening, join for a discussion with New Hampshire Humanities Public Programs Director Dr. Tricia Peone, in conversation with Dr. Vaughn Booker, Assistant Professor of Religion and African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College.
This event will be on OVEE here – https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/1x5fm
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THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG airs on NHPBS:

Tuesday, February 16 @ 9pm on NHPBS | Episode One
Wednesday, February 17 @ 9 pm on NHPBS | Episode Two

with numerous replays on NHPBS and online at nhpbs.org

Online - Tea Talk Series: Claiming Our Place: Blacks in “White Spaces”
2021-02-07 14:00 - 16:00 | NH, United States
America has a long and troubled history of segregated public spaces. When Amy Cooper called the police on Christian Cooper (no relation) in Central Park last year, the incident underscored a familiar script that continues America’s legacy of enslavement. Some whites perceive African Americans who venture into public spaces as dangerous and disruptive intruders. All it took was a white woman to spout a racist dog whistle and the park, a public space, was made unsafe for a Black man.
The 2021 Tea Talk Series, as a way to rethink our assumptions about race and place, explores how African Americans navigate various “white spaces”, spaces where Blacks and People of Color are marginalized, typically absent, and unexpected. Through shared stories and dialogue this series will present ideas and offer opportunities for understanding and reconciliation.
The winter Tea Talk series, presented by the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) and sponsored in part by a grant from New Hampshire Humanities, is a series of participatory lectures related to New Hampshire’s Black history and African American culture.
These events are free and open to the public.
All talks are Sunday afternoons from 2:00 – 4:00 PM.
Registration for each talk is required.
Black Heritage Trail of NH: 2021 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks
Claiming Our Place: Blacks in “White Spaces”
Sundays February 7 – March 14, 2PM-4PM

Feb. 7 – Racism, Land & the American Farming Landscape
Feb. 14 – Writing While Black: The Afrofuturistic Writer
Feb. 21 – Race & Care of the Soul
Feb. 28 – It Happened in NH: Black History in the Granite State
Mar. 7 -The Power of Place: Martha’s Vineyard and the Growth of the Black Elite
Mar. 14 – On Shaky Ground: Students of Color in Predominantly White Institutions

Dover - Rolling Rally to Free ICE Detainees
2021-02-07 13:00 - 14:30 | NH, United States
Covid-19 is now in the jail. ICE should free the immigrants it holds there.
MEET THE CONVOY: Strafford County Courthouse, 259 County Farm Road, Dover, NH 03820. Do NOT honk your horn.
SIGN IN: https://bit.ly/2VaavVm
PETITION: https://bit.ly/34Flbya
SIGNS: Our message is “ICE have a heart! Release them!” Printable art https://bit.ly/2VUavrx
https://www.facebook.com/events/510832573214103

NPR - Amplify: Turning up the Volume on Black Voices
2021-02-05 14:00 | NH, United States
A virtual podcast & chat series focused on centering Black voices and experiences. Join UNH SHARPP & The Beauregard Center this Black History Month on Fridays from 2-3pm to listen and learn. A new podcast will be featured each week followed by a group discussion.
Feb 5, 2021 02:00 PM
Feb 12, 2021 02:00 PM
Feb 19, 2021 02:00 PM
Feb 26, 2021 02:00 PM
Register

Online - Remote Advocacy Training
2021-02-03 15:00 - 16:00 | NH, United States
New Futures Remote Advocacy Training

Learn how to advocate during the 2021 legislative session, one unlike any other in history! This training will cover how to effectively advocate remotely this year and have your voice heard by lawmakers. Topics will include explaining the process for remote public hearings and how to testify virtually, how to submit written testimony, and other essential advocacy skills like calling your legislators or writing a Letter to the Editor. We’ll also give an overview of the NH state legislature, offer anticipated timelines for the session, and review why it’s so important for you to make your voice heard this year.
Sign up here

Online - Rebecca Carroll "Surviving the White Gaze"
2021-02-02 19:00 | NH, United States
Rebecca Carroll “Surviving the White Gaze”
Feb 2, 7pm (Live streamed event)
The Music Hall in Portsmouth in partnership with NHPR is hosting the latest edition of Writers On A New England Stage. Award-winning author, podcast host, and Black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll — a New Hampshire native — is the guest for this event, now being presented in an intimate and virtual format. The Music Hall is offering admission to the event, free for UNH Faculty, Staff, and Students.

If you are interested in attending, register online here and enter code “TK” at checkout, or call The Music Hall Box Office at 603-436-2400. Admission is free, but books (Surviving the White Gaze) are available for purchase.
NHPR’s All Things Considered host Peter Biello will be in a virtual conversation with Rebecca.
The event will be held via the Crowdcast platform.

Online - Peace & Justice Conversations: Why Work with Youth?
2021-02-01 19:00 | NH, United States
Join NHPA with NH Youth Movement co-founder and former board member of NH Peace Action Griffin Sinclaire-Wingate as he talks about his work to harness the energy of young people to create political change.
Throughout his 26 years Griffin has worked in a variety of movements and issue areas. In highschool he became involved in the anti-war movement through New Hampshire Peace Action. Upon starting college at the University of New Hampshire Griffin reignited the fossil fuel divestment campaign. As the 2016 presidential primary revved up Griffin shifted his work from targeting campus administration to targeting politicians. During this time he worked with a handful of organizations to push presidential candidates to take bold climate stances and get out the youth vote. The outcomes of the 2016 election solidified the growing idea that the progressive movement needed to get serious about wielding political power and winning elections. As his time at UNH came to a close Griffin became the co-director of 350 New Hampshire and coordinated their Offshore Wind Campaign and Pipeline Resistance Campaign (both were victorious). Still focused on the need to build progressive political power Griffin started laying the groundwork for a youth lead movement that would leverage the political power of young people to elect lawmakers who will fight for a livable future with good jobs, health, and education for all. In the fall of 2017 Griffin launched New Hampshire Youth Movement with a group of his college organizing friends. He currently serves as a Co-Director of New Hampshire Youth Movement. Outside of organizing Griffin makes pottery at a local studio in Rochester and enjoys writing music.

Black History Month
2021-02-01 - 2021-02-28 | NH, United States
Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history.
2021 Theme – The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity
To learn more, visit:

https://asalh.org/about-us/origins-of-black-history-month/
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-month
https://time.com/4197928/history-black-history-month/

2021 Black History Month Virtual Festival: https://asalh.org/festival/

Online - Word on the Street
2021-01-30 19:00 | NH, United States
What is it like to get the vaccine? Why should I take my chances?
Family doctors Trini Tellez and Marie Ramas will talk with Dr. Melissa Martinez-Adorno, OBGYN at Solutions Health about why she decided to get the COVID-19 vaccine and how COVID-19 has affected women in NH.
To access the Facebook Live event, visit: https://www.facebook.com/thelighthousenh/
About The Lighthouse NH
While understanding the cultural barriers and historical reasons for hesitancy regarding the health care system and communities of color, the LighthouseNH seeks to engage BIPOC communities in public health and wellness.

Online - The Blueprint for Full Immigrant & Refugee Inclusion
2021-01-26 16:00 | NH, United States
Join on Facebook Live!
It is a new day for immigrants and refugees under a new administration: we organized, we advocated, we voted and we are ready to fully integrate immigrants and refugees into our country.
Join NPNA and NPNA members in a conversation about how to advance our vision of the full inclusion of immigrants and refugees in the social, cultural, and economic fabric of American society.
Our analysis will touch on various policies, tactics, and campaigns designed to ensure that immigrants and refugees have all the resources and opportunities at their disposal to be successful. We will talk about how the various proposed policies within the Biden Administration and legislation in Congress would affect everyday immigrants and refugees. Join us!
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Es un nuevo día para los inmigrantes y refugiados bajo una nueva administración: nos organizamos, abogamos, votamos y estamos listos para integrar completamente a los inmigrantes y refugiados en nuestro país.
Únase a los miembros de NPNA y NPNA en una conversación sobre cómo impulsar nuestra visión de la inclusión total de inmigrantes y refugiados en el tejido social, cultural y económico de la sociedad estadounidense.
Nuestro análisis tocará varias políticas, tácticas y campañas destinadas a garantizar que los inmigrantes y refugiados tengan todos los recursos y oportunidades a su disposición para tener éxito. Hablaremos sobre cómo las diversas políticas propuestas dentro de la Administración Biden y la legislación en el Congreso afectarían a los inmigrantes y refugiados cotidianos. ¡Únete a nosotros!

Online - Bystandership and Implicit Bias
2021-01-23 10:00 - 12:00 | NH, United States
Join Aron DiBacco of GSOP and James McKim of the NAACP to learn how to interrupt bias-based harming as an Active Bystander.
Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1049174345543708/

Online - The Black Matter is Life: Poetry for Engagement and Overcoming
2021-01-21 17:00 | NH, United States
A Virtual Poetry Reading & Discussion
Love, Love, Love

Poetry is a powerful art form, one that offers profound insights into what it means to be human. Through the creative, succinct, and melodious use of language, poets render into words their joys, their challenges, their vulnerabilities, and their discoveries, thus providing shape and meaning to the human connection and shared emotional experience.
In the wake of our nation’s current unrest, this program is designed to build bridges across the racial divide by introducing the audience to the writings of a number of African American poets whose work has shone a light on a rich cultural heritage that has often gone unexplored. This program asks the audience to consider how African American poetry provides tools for healing our nation’s deep racial wounds.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqdu-vqz8oG9MzJH1DYmxo_GMc5qQrRn7c

Online - The People's Inauguration
2021-01-21 12:00 | Online, United States
Only we can bring our communities together, tend our wounds, and begin the labor of reckoning, reimagining and remaking our nation block-by-block, heart-to-heart.
On January 20th, we will celebrate democracy at work as a new President and historic Vice President make an oath of office. Then, the next day, we will join them — and make a commitment to do our part in building a nation with liberty and justice for all.
January 21, 2021 at 12pm ET, we’ll come together, and we will do so with love.
Sound government is necessary – but it won’t heal and transition America into a society where we are all free. This work belongs to us, the people. In the wake of recent violence and insurrection, the People’s Inauguration is more urgent than ever.
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United States Presidential Inauguration
2021-01-20 | NH, United States

Online - Peace & Justice Conversations: King's Legacy Today
2021-01-18 19:00 | NH, United States
Fifty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his final campaign, the Poor People’s Campaign was relaunched under the leadership of Dr. William Barber and Dr. Elizabeth Theoharis.
On Martin Luther King day 2021, please join the NH Co-Chairs of the NH Poor People’s Campaign, Rev. Jason Wells and Deborah Opramolla, for a NH Peace Action Peace and Justice Conversation on how the Poor People’s Campaign is working to challenge Racism, Militarism, Environmental Devastation, and Poverty today.
Rev. Wells is Executive Director of the NH Council of Churches and Dr. Deborah Opramolla serves on the NH Council on Developmental Disabilities.
About NHPA’s Peace & Justice Conversation Series: COVID 19 has brought us to a new moment of reckoning and possibility. How do we want to live in the world? What do we value? How can we make the changes we’ve been yearning for? NH Peace Action has been engaged in working for change for decades. We’d like to take this moment to bring you into some conversations about issues and options for the future. Our new online abilities make it possible to come together across the state more easily to connect, learn and work for peace and justice. This bi-weekly Zoom series hosted by NHPA members will offer different topics of discussion for each session. Be part of the conversation!

Online - MLK Day Virtual Celebration
2021-01-18 14:30 | NH, United States
Monday, January 18, 2021, 2:30pm
Due to COVID restrictions, this year’s celebration will be held online.
Click here to register for the Zoom event.
See and share this event on Facebook.
This year’s event will include:

Jazz music from Central High School
Video of past MLK award winners, community leaders and elected officials reading quotes from Dr. King.
Virtual choir of singers making music remotely
Participatory conversation on King’s question, “Where do we go from here?”

This program will also be available for streaming on Youtube and will be broadcast on Manchester public TV.
Engage from home
As you stay home and stay safe on Martin Luther King Day, the MLK Coalition offers these three opportunities in partnership with the Seacoast NAACP, Currier Museum and the NH Jewish Film Festival.
You can also read this tribute to Sandi Hicks and Marie Metoyer written by MLK Coalition member DG Krasner.

Online - SNHOBU Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
2021-01-18 08:30 - 10:30 | NH, United States
To continue to celebrate and move forward the legacy of Dr. King, during this pandemic Southern NH Outreach for Black Unity (SNHOBU) invites all to come to gather through the ZOOM media platform this year. To hear the words as written from Dr. King himself reflecting on the state of our United States as pertaining to civil rights equality and justice, with the opportunity for reflection and sharing.
Finishing with our words from our four distinguished panel speakers.
SNHOBU is asking for a donation of $35.00 to help with operational expenses but any amount would be appreciated.

Online - Laconia MLK Day Celebration
2021-01-17 14:30 | NH, United States
Annual Celebration of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Featuring panel and community discussion.
Sponsored by Laconia Human Relations Committee. Please join via Zoom on Sunday, January 17, 2021 for the Annual MLK Day Celebration beginning at 3:00 pm (you may begin joining the celebration at 2:30 pm).
To attend the celebration virtually, connect via the Zoom link and use Passcode [REDACTED]. To listen only, call 1-301-715-8592, enter Webinar ID 842 2958 4087 and Passcode [REDACTED]. Information can also be found on the City’s website at www.laconianh.gov

Dover - Rolling Rally to Free ICE Detainees
2021-01-17 13:00 - 14:30 | Strafford County Courthouse, 259 County Farm Road, Dover, NH, 03820, United States
Now that there is Covid-19 in the jail, it is even more necessary to release them. Every Sunday, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Strafford County House of Detention. Meet at Strafford Jail, 259 County Farm Road, Dover. Do not honk your horn.
Hosted by Never Again Action NH.
Sign in.
Sign petition.
Signs: Our message is “ICE have a heart! Release them!” Printable art.

Radio - NHPR Special Programming: Martin Luther King Jr.
2021-01-16 22:00 - 23:00 | NH, United States
As the nation honors the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tune into New Hampshire Public Radio for three specials exploring Dr. King’s remarkable life, beliefs and legacy.
Saturday, January 16
10 p.m. – 11 p.m. (Best of Public Radio slot)
For the first special, join NHPR for MLK: Three Landmark Speeches, from our public media partners at PRX. In 2014, producer Paul Ingles asked two leading King scholars to pick three of Dr. King’s most important speeches from the 1960s. Listeners will hear from the late Dr. Vincent Harding, Professor of Religion and Social Transformation at the Illiff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. Harding was a personal friend and speechwriting colleague of Dr. King in the 1960s. In addition, listeners will hear from Dr. Clayborne Carson, who has been directing the King Papers Project since 1985.
Scholars chose the following speeches:

King’s last address, the night before his assassination in 1968;
the speech he made a year to the day before he was killed, called “Beyond Vietnam”;
Dr. King’s remarks that he made at the conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery marches in March of 1965, considered a turning point in the struggle for Voting Rights and equality for Black Americans.

Monday, January 18
9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
The second special, a live call-in episode of The Exchange, will air on the MLK Day holiday. and re-air the same evening from 9 to 10 p.m. Host Laura Knoy will talk with Black activists and civil rights historians about recent events and what wisdom and lessons they take from Dr. King’s life and words. Listeners are encouraged to let The Exchange team know how you’re reflecting on MLK day this year either by sending an email to exchange@nhpr.org, or calling in during the live show at 800-892-6477.
Special guests for this episode will include:

Jason Sokol – professor of history at UNH. Jason is the author of three books: There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights; All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn; and The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
James McKim – Manchester NAACP President.

Monday, January 18
2 to 3 pm. (rebroadcast at 8 to 9 p.m.)
The third special, MLK and the Fierce Urgency of Now! by WNYC, will unpack the implications of the 2020 US Presidential Election through the prisms of civil rights and modern day social justice movements. The Black community’s historically adversarial relationship with law enforcement and Western medicine institutions are focal points that will be discussed, made more urgent by the ongoing pandemic. The program will be co-hosted by The Takeaway’s Tanzina Vega, and WNYC’s Jami Floyd and Brian Lehrer.
For details on all of NHPR’s on-air program schedule, click here.

Online - 39th Annual MLK Celebration
2021-01-16 19:00 | NH, United States
Keynote Speaker: Rev. Dr. Willlard Ashley, Sr.
Willard Ashley is the co-chair of the Anti-Racism Coalition of Faith, Ethical and Spiritual Communities, under the umbrella of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. Ashley gained national attention as a leader in the Interfaith Community Organization (ICO) which grew into Jersey City Together.
MUSICAL PERFORMANCES

First Baptist Church Chancel Choir
New Hampshire Gay Men’s Chorus
Julia Leonard, Vocal Soloist
And other musical performers

Hosted by First Baptist Church Nashua. See details on our website: www.fbcnashua.org

Online - Reparations
2021-01-11 18:30 - 20:00 | NH, United States
The topic of Reparations has gained sharpened attention as a result of the racial tensions and nation-wide demonstrations throughout much of 2020.

Reparations as a response to centuries of racial injustice will be the focus of a presentation by Woullard Lett, a member of the National Coalition Of Blacks For Reparations In America ( N’COBRA) and an activist in the NAACP, in Manchester on January 11 at 6:30pm – 8pm.

The rational for reparations, and forms reparations can take, as well as a review of perceptions and misconceptions about reparations will be highlighted. Current legislation, H.R. 40, will be summarized.

Event is hosted by the Social Justice Committee of FUUSE (First Unitarian Universalist Society of Exeter.) with co-sponsors of the event being the Racial Unity Team and Black Lives Matter Seacoast!

Use this zoom link to join the event on Jan 11th, 6:30pm; https://uuma.zoom.us/j/97822171370

Online - Never Again Action Leaders Training
2021-01-10 13:00 - 18:00 | NH, United States
Would you like to help Never Again Action NH grow in 2021? We welcome you to our close-knit team! We are the public-facing arm of NH immigration advocacy.
In cooperation with local progressive and immigration advocacy groups, we lobby our members of Congress, hold weekly car rallies at the Dover jail where ICE holds immigrants, co-host events such as Communities Not Cages in Manchester, and publish an e-newsletter full of news. More people would help us do more.
If you are new to organizing with NAA, this training will help you come deeper into the movement and grow your leadership. If you are an experienced NAA organizer, this powerful training will reground you in the heart and soul of the movement, and prepare you to bring in more people at the local level.
Register here: https://airtable.com/shrJKTZ0PxFj4ozJ4

Kwanzaa (African-American/Pan-African)
2020-12-26 - 2021-01-01 | NH, United States
“As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. Given the profound significance Kwanzaa has for African Americans and indeed, the world African community, it is imperative that an authoritative source and site be made available to give an accurate and expansive account of its origins, concepts, values, symbols and practice.” – Dr. Maulana Karenga, www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org
Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach, created Kwanzaa in 1966. After the Watts riots in Los Angeles, Dr. Karenga searched for ways to bring African-Americans together as a community. He founded US, a cultural organization, and started to research African “first fruit” (harvest) celebrations. Karenga combined aspects of several different harvest celebrations, such as those of the Ashanti and those of the Zulu, to form the basis of Kwanzaa.
The name Kwanzaa is derived from the phrase “matunda ya kwanza” which means “first fruits” in Swahili. Each family celebrates Kwanzaa in its own way, but celebrations often include songs and dances, African drums, storytelling, poetry reading, and a large traditional meal.
To learn more, visit: www.history.com/topics/holidays/kwanzaa-history
