Tea Talks

The Art of WarConflict and the African American PhilosophyPresenter BiographiesSUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2Things They Carried: An African Philosophy on War, Surviving Enslavement and CitizenshipTony Van Der Meer, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer III in the Africana Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a scholar-practitioner rooted in leadership and change praxis, liberatory pedagogies, and African indigenous spiritual knowledge systems. His research interests include Ifá spiritual practice and healing in the Diaspora, Black activist movements, and leadership development.  Grant E.…

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…

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…

 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…

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…

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…