Tea Talks

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Receives New Hampshire Humanities Grant to Host 2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Series

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) is honored to announce it has been awarded a New Hampshire Humanities Community Grant to support its 2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Series. This popular community dialogue series takes place every Sunday in February at 2:00 PM at the Portsmouth Public Library in Portsmouth, NH. The 2025 series, themed “The Art of War: Conflict and African American Philosophy,” takes inspiration from Sun Tzu’s timeless classic and explores a holistic approach to navigating conflict and achieving victory…

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2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks Presenter Biographies

The Art of WarConflict and the African American PhilosophyPresenter BiographiesSUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2Things They Carried: An African Philosophy on War, Surviving Enslavement and CitizenshipGrant E. Stanton is Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Drew University.  Grant’s research interests range widely across the landscape of early American (pre-1865) and Atlantic history, with a focus on the contributions Black actors made to the creation of the modern world.Grant’s book manuscript studies the birth of formal Black politics in the American Revolution,…

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2024 EWH TEA TALK SUGGESTED READING LIST

Sunday, February 5, 2024″Before European Contact”: Changing the Ways We Present Our HistoryWrestling With the New DealA ‘Forgotten History’ of How the US Government Segregated AmericaRacial Differences in Access to New Deal Work Relief in 1940  Sunday, February 11, 2024Home Sick: Attaining the American Dream New Hampshire’s House Crisis is a Human Rights Issue The Gulf Between Black Homeowners and White is Actually Getting Bigger, Not Smaller People of Color Face Higher Rental Costs Than White Americans, Zillow Finds Sunday, February 18, 2024A Question of…

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Release: "A Question of Access and Quality: Health Care in New Hampshire" – A Highlight of the Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks 2024

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) isexcited to announce the third session of the 2024 Elinor Williams HookerTea Talks, "A Question of Access and Quality: Health Care in NewHampshire." This pivotal discussion, set for February 18, 2024, at thePortsmouth Public Library, is part of this year's enlightening series, “A New Deal for A Great Society.”The panel, featuring Bobbie D. Bagley, Dr. Marie Ramos, and NicoleSublette, moderated by Josephine Porter, explores the realities of NewHampshire’s health care today and…

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Empowering Change and Challenging Inequities: Black Heritage Trail NH Launches Tea Talk Series on Economic Justice and Housing Dreams

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire is pleased to announce the kickoff of the Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks Series for 2024, featuring two enlightening panels. These thought-provoking discussions aim to shed light on significant historical and contemporary issues concerning the African American community in New Hampshire. The first panel, titled “New Deal or Raw Deal: Why it Matters,” will take place on Sunday, February 4, 2024, at the Portsmouth Public Library, located at 175 Parrot Ave, Portsmouth NH.…

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BHTNH 2024 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks Presenters Biographies

A New Deal For A Great Society  Presenters Biographies  Sunday, February 4, 2024 “New Deal or Raw Deal: Why it Matters. Gene Martin is the Executive Director of the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute. Prior to NHFPI, he served as the Associate Director of Development and Director of Government Relations at Plymouth State University. He previously held various roles in the NH State Senate as the top policy and communications staffer in the Senate Minority Leader’s office, overseeing a policy…

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BHTNH Community Dialogue Features New Hampshire Youth Activists

PORTSMOUTH, NH — The Black Heritage Trail of NH is excited to present Youth to Power:  Young Female Activists, the community dialogue that closes out the 2023 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk series on Sunday, March 12, at 2:00 PM. Free and open to the public, this hybrid program is presented in person at the Temple Israel at 200 State Street in Portsmouth and is simultaneously available online. Registration is required. Black Women have been leaders in this country for centuries…

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Black Heritage Trail History Scholar of the Week 

 The Black Heritage Trail of NH is holding a contest in association with our 2024 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks.  Middle and High School students (age 13 and up) submit your questions for one of our  Tea Talk panels. If your question is chosen, you will be named History Scholar of the  Week. Your name will be announced and your question asked live at our Tea Talk. In  addition, both you and your teacher will receive a gift certificate for a…

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2023 EWH TEA TALK SUGGESTED READING LIST

Sunday, February 5, 2023″Before European Contact”: Changing the Ways We Present Our History        The First and the Forced: Essays on the Native American and African American Experience EDUCATING AMERICA: THE HISTORIAN’S RESPONSIBILITY TO NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE PUBLICSunday, February 12, 2023The Paradox of Education for Black & Brown Children         HB544Ignoring Racism in Schools Actually Increases Prejudice Sunday, February 19, 2023″Beyond Forty Acres”: Land Ownership, and Black Wealth  Black Land Theft and the Racial Wealth DivideIn Vermont, just 17 of the 7,000 farms are Black-owned. A…

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BHTNH 2023 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks Presenters Biographies

Courageous Conversations: Leaning in for ChangePresenters Biographies Sunday, February 5, 2023″Before European Contact”: Changing The Ways We Present Our HistoryKabria Baumgartner is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States, specializing in the history of education, African American women’s and gender history, and New England studies. She is currently Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies; Associate Director of Public History. She is the author of In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America, which tells the…

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