At BHTNH, we believe how we talk with each other is as important as the content of what we say. There is immense value in being mindful about how we communicate and connect with each other, especially when trying to create a safe, equitable, and inclusive space. To help us achieve this, we use community agreements. For the EWH Tea Talk Series, we hope you will agree to the following ground rules that we will review before each talk to…
Contest Rules and Guidelines BHTNH is accepting submissions for the 2022 BHTNH T-Shirt Design Contest between January 10 – March 1, 2022. The winning design will be printed on the official 2022 BHNH T-Shirt to be sold at the BHTNH gift shop for the 2022 tour season. T-Shirt Design Contest Prizes 1st Place – Design will be featured on the official BHTNH 2022 t-shirt, recognition on BHTNH website and social media, and designer receives $100 check, one free BHTNH T-shirt…
Whispering Quilts: A Slave’s Journey of Hope, Struggle, and Freedom *Signed by the Illustrator, Richard Haynes* R.M. Tappin Illustrated by Richard Haynes Softcover, 6×9, 152 pages, illustrated. $9.95 plus shipping published 2018 by R.M Tappin, ISBN: 978-1-70792343-4 Cover art courtesy of artist Charaf Essbati Order Online Lacking a formal mode of communication, in the planning and execution of their escape from their bondage, Africans enslaved in America developed symbols and codes to communicate with each other. Reputedly, some of these…
The Black Life is Matter Poetry EventAbout the PoetsStudy GuideBlack Matter is Life: Poetry for Engagement and OvercomingStatement of IntentBy Dennis BrittonIn her 1985 essay “Poetry is not a Luxury,” Audre Lorde writes, “The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our…
A film that seeks to answer the question: What happens when we move towards a fuller understanding of our history by including all voices?
The 1619 Project. In August of 1619, a ship appeared on the horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. This marks the beginning of American slavery. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed. On the…
