Princeton NJ Black History Guide Events Calendar

January 18

Mercer County Community College MLK Day of Service
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Virtual Day of Service, HomeFront
9:00 AM

MLK Day Community Story Hour with JaZams, Arts Council of Princeton
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

MLK Day Virtual Panel Discussion, West Windsor Arts Council
2:00 PM

"Is Everyone Invited?" MLK Day Panel Discussion
3:00 PM

Annual Martin Luther King Day Concert, "We Shall Overcome," Trenton Music Makers Orchestra
6:00 PM

Multifaith Service to Commemorate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
7:00 PM

January 22

Tracy K. Smith in Conversation with Jericho Brown and Danez Smith
5:30 PM

January 27

Ladee Hubbard and Nicole Blades discuss The Rib King, Princeton Public Library
7:00 PM

January 28

Black Experience in History and Memory - A "Lift Every Voice" Event, Princeton Public Library
7:00 PM

January 29

PSO Virtual Concert – Presenting the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble
9:00 AM - 12:00 AM

January 31

Stories of Slavery in New Jersey, Pennington Public Library
3:00 PM

February 01

Continuing Conversations on Race, Princeton Public Library
7:00 PM

February 02

Historically Speaking: Four Hundred Souls – A Conversation With Ibram Kendi And Keisha N. Blain, African American History and Culture Museum Online
7:00 PM

February 03

Phillis Wheatley: Slave Girl, Literary Genius, Somerset County Library
7:00 PM

February 04

Black History Month: Trivia for Teens/Tweens
3:30 PM

Black History Month Bingo, Princeton Family YMCA (Virtual)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Frederick Douglass’s Relevance - For the 21st Century’s Black Lives Matter Protests, Somerset County Library
7:00 PM

February 05

First Friday Film - "4 Little Girls" - PSRC
1:00 PM

February 06

Legends of the Arts: A Black History Month Exhibit, Arts Council of Princeton
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

"In Graves of Their Own:" Reclaiming the Locust Hill Cemetery, William Trent House
1:00 PM

Courthouse Research: Using Probate Records to Research Enslaved Ancestors, African American History and Culture Museum Online
2:00 PM

Saturday Night @ the Movies: Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP (2015)
8:00 PM

February 07

Story & Verse Workshop, Arts Council of Princeton
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

February 09

MCL Tuesday Book Club: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
7:00 PM

In Conversation with Kayren Carter Mjumbe, Arts Council of Princeton
7:00 PM

February 10

The Same Principle Lives in Us People of African Descent in the American Revolution, Princeton Public Library
7:00 PM

February 11

Black History Month Bingo, Princeton Family YMCA (Virtual)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Black Voices Book Group, Princeton Public Library
7:15 PM

February 12

Perspectives on Church and Race, PSRC
1:00 PM

February 16

Black History Month Tribute to Frank Johnson's Music
12:00 PM

February 17

Black History Month: Famous Inventors
6:00 PM

Harriet Hemmings and the Pursuit of Happiness – The Story of Thomas Jefferson’s Enslaved Daughter, Somerset County Library
7:00 PM

February 18

Millions of Abolitionists: The Republican Party and the Struggle to Overthrow the Slave Power, 55 Plus Club
10:00 AM

Black History Month Bingo, Princeton Family YMCA (Virtual)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Life in Princeton During the American Revolution
7:00 PM

February 19

Meet Madam C. J. Walker, Princeton Public Library
4:00 PM

February 20

Virtual Gospel-Music Fundraiser, Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Saturday Night @ the Movies: Nina (2015)
8:00 PM

February 21

African Americans In STEM Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon, African American History and Culture Museum Online
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

February 22

Black Women's Role in the Suffrage Movement
7:00 PM

Panel Discussion of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, National Museum of African American History and Culture
7:00 PM

February 23

Let the Whole World Sing, The Glory Gospel Singers
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Historically Speaking: The Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the African American Community, African American History and Culture Museum Online
7:00 PM

February 24

Virtual Fundraiser to Benefit Covid-19 Rent Relief, Princeton Community Housing
7:00 PM

February 25

Black History Month Bingo, Princeton Family YMCA (Virtual)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man: Jacob Francis, 1754-1836 - HCHS Black History Month Program
7:00 PM

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, New-York Historical Society & PPL
7:00 PM

Understanding Princeton’s African American History
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

February 26

Virtual Concert: Soulful and Scintillating Solos, Princeton Symphony Orchestra
9:00 AM

February 27

Free Harlem Renaissance & the Art of Collage Workshop, Arts Council of Princeton
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Saturday Night @ the Movies: Anita (2013)
8:00 PM

February 28

The Toni Morrison Book Club, Friends of Princeton Public Library
11:00 AM

March 04

Family and Community in African American Poetry, Princeton Public Library
7:00 PM

March 05

First Friday Film - "Brooklyn" - PSRC
1:00 PM

March 25

Amazing African American Women, Princeton Public Library
4:00 PM