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Maine groups partner to highlight New England's Black heritage through series of virtual events


Maine groups partner to highlight New England’s Black heritage through series of virtual events
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In January and February 2021, Atlantic Black Box and the Indigo Arts Alliance will convene two public conversations related to memory, art, place, and race supported by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council. This pair of events will feature panelists from around New England who have developed site-specific projects aimed at making Black history and heritage visible in the built environment and at promoting place-based literacy through the lens of racial history.
New England has long repressed the memory of its complicity in Atlantic world slavery, just as it has suppressed the stories of the region’s free and enslaved Black and Indigenous populations. These glaring omissions perpetuate historical harms. In plotting a course toward a more equitable future, we are going to need a better map. Remapping New England is a historical recovery project aimed at inscribi ....

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