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Tea Talk Honors Legacy and Leadership

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) invites the public to attend the fourth panel in its 2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Series, themed “The Art of War: Conflict and the African American Philosophy.” The panel discussion will take place on February 23, 2025, at the Portsmouth Public Library, starting at 2:00 PM. The event will be both in-person and available virtually. The 90-minute panel, titled “Eyes on the Prize: Protests, Movements, and the Road Ahead,” will explore…

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Navigating the Terrain of Citizenship: Military Service and Social Mobility in New Hampshire’s African American History

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) invites the public to attend the third panel in its 2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Series, themed “The Art of War: Conflict and the African American Philosophy.” The panel discussion will take place on February 16, 2025, at the Portsmouth Public Library, starting at 2:00 PM. The event will be both in-person and available virtually. The 90-minute panel, titled “The Great Migration: Military Service and the Shaping of a Diversified New…

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Navigating the Terrain of Citizenship: Military Service and Social Mobility in New Hampshire’s African American History

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) invites the public to attend the third panel in its 2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Series, themed “The Art of War: Conflict and the African American Philosophy.” The panel discussion will take place on February 16, 2025, at the Portsmouth Public Library, starting at 2:00 PM. The event will be both in-person and available virtually. The 90-minute panel, titled “The Great Migration: Military Service and the Shaping of a Diversified New…

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War and Strategies for Belonging Amid Conflict Featured in Second Black Heritage Trail of NH Tea Talk

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) invites the public to the second panel of the 2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Series themed “The Art of War: Conflict and the African American Philosophy.”  This 2025 Tea Talk is on February 9 at Portsmouth Public Library starting at 2:00 PM with a 90-minute facilitated panel titled: “Hopes and Impediments: War and Strategies for Belonging” followed by a community conversation.    Both in person and streaming online, the second of…

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A Celebration of Resilience Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Launches the 2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Series “The Art of War” at Portsmouth Public Library.

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) invites the public to the 2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Series themed “The Art of War: Conflict and the African American Philosophy.”  The 2025 Tea Talks begin on February 2 at Portsmouth Public Library starting at 2:00 PM with a 90-minute facilitated panel titled: “Things They Carried: An African Philosophy on War, Surviving Enslavement, and Citizenship” followed by a community conversation.    Both in person and streaming online, the first 2025…

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The 2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Series Explores “The Art of War: Conflict and the African American Philosophy”

                                    The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) presents the 2025 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Series, titled “The Art of War: Conflict and the African American Philosophy.” Inspired by Sun Tzu’s classic text, The Art of War, this year’s series presents a unique framework to explore how African philosophies of war, strategy, resilience, and collective action have influenced African American history.…

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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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Black Heritage Trail of NH to Receive $76,069 ArtsHERE Grant

Grant Projects Designed to Expand Access to Arts Participation in Communities Nationwide The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) is pleased to announce they are one of 112 organizations nationwide selected to receive an ArtsHERE grant of $79,069 as part of a new pilot program from the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with South Arts and in collaboration with the other five U.S. Regional Arts Organizations. These grants support specific projects that will strengthen the organization’s capacity…

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Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Take Center Stage at the 18th Annual Black New England Conference, Oct 5 at SNHU

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire (BHTNH) is pleased to announce the keynote and panel presentations secured for its 18th Annual Black New England Conference (BNEC) on October 5, 2024. This hybrid event will be hosted at Southern NH University (SNHU) in Manchester, NH and online. This year’s event, ‘LIVING OUT LOUD: The Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation’, features world-renowned Tiq Milan (he/him) for a Keynote Conversation: A Model of Possibilities to be hosted by NH’s own…

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BHTNH 2024 Citizen of the Year, Justice Roe Williams

Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Will Award Citizen of the Year to Justice Roe Williams at the 18th Annual Black New England ConferenceJustice Roe Williams (he/him) is a poet, writer, author, and now co-editor of his upcoming anthology, Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex: How to Resist, Disrupt, and Reclaim What It Means to Be Fit in American Culture” published in 2023 with North Atlantic Books. A unique book project that takes the journey of diverse bodies, from coaches to…

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